Deacon Blue

'Bigger Than Dynamite' - New Single.
Release Date : October 9th

'Singles' - Album Release
Release Date : October 16th

Label : Sony BMG

"Great songs and impassioned lyrics" - Q Magazine

If a band can claim squatters' rights, then Deacon Blue can take ownership of the charts. Their first album 'Raintown' set the precedent, spending 77 weeks in the album chart, and with five top 5 UK albums (of which 2 were number 1) under the belts they have chalked up an impressive 4 years in the British album charts. Their seventeen top 40 singles resided in the chart for more than 2 years.

So what better way to celebrate their 21st anniversary than a collection of those hit singles?

Deacon Blue are one of the UK's most commercially successful bands with a reputation for writing and performing classic and timeless pop songs. 'Singles' is a CD for all lovers of great pop music - a 19 track digitally re-mastered collection that includes 16 of their hit singles - including their first hit single 'Dignity', the 'Real Gone Kid', 'Chocolate Girl', and 'Twist and Shout' - and 3 brand new songs which continue their extraordinary legacy - 'The One About Loneliness', 'Haunted' and the single 'Bigger Than Dynamite'.

Ricky Ross explains: "the new songs were written for this project in and around December 05 with the exception of 'The One About Loneliness' which I wrote as a closing song for my last solo tour in May 2005. Fortunately/unfortunately I never got round to learning it well enough to play live so it seemed an ideal starting point for the recording session on this album. It also felt like a song made for Deacon Blue. 'Haunted' was fairly slow moving song until Lorraine insisted she had a better plan and upped the tempo and brought in a new chorus. 'Bigger Than Dynamite' was a happy outcome of a day Scott (Fraser) and I decided to try writing something for the project.

Away from the band the members have been busy - Ricky Ross released his solo album Pale Rider last year and is very much a songwriter in demand, writing for James Blunt, Ronan Keating, Robert Post and Gareth Gates; following her role in the Ken Loach film 'My Name Is Joe' Lorraine has been acting in the Scottish TV series River City since 2002; Dougie's broadcasting career has gone from strength to strength and, in addition to presenting on Grandstand, he is the anchor and main reporter for BBC Scotland's Sportscene programmes, Jim meanwhile is a lecturer in commercial music at the University of Paisley in Scotland.

A concert for 30,000 fans on New Year's Eve marked the start of a return for the band in 2006 accompanied by the re-release of their classic debut album 'Raintown'. A band who enjoys performing live, Deacon Blue will be undertaking a 17 date UK tour in November in support of the album release.

Deacon Blue - Singles Track List

1. Dignity
2. Real Gone Kid
3. Wages Day
4. Fergus Sings The Blues
5. Twist And Shout
6. Bigger Than Dynamite
7. Your Swaying Arms
8. Your Town
9. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
10. Chocolate Girl
11. When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)
12. Love And Regret
13. I Was Eight And Your Were Wrong
14. Loaded
15. Queen Of The New Year
16. Only Tender Love
17. Cover From The Sky
18. Haunted
19. The One About Loneliness

UK Tour

Sun 05 Nov 06 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Mon 06 Nov 06 Portsmouth Guildhall
Tue 07 Nov 06 Newcastle City Hall
Thu 09 Nov 06 Sheffield City Hall
Fri 10 Nov 06 Manchester Carling Apollo
Sun 12 Nov 06 Leicester De Montfort Hall
Mon 13 Nov 06 Bristol Colston Hall
Wed 15 Nov 06 Brighton Centre
Thu 16 Nov 06 Birmingham Symphony Hall
Fri 17 Nov 06 London Hammersmith Apollo
Mon 20 Nov 06 Dundee Caird Hall
Tue 21 Nov 06 Aberdeen Music Hall
Thu 23 Nov 06 Edinburgh Usher Hall
Fri 24 Nov 06 Glasgow Carling Academy
Sat 25 Nov 06 Glasgow Carling Academy
Sun 26 Nov 06 Liverpool Empire

 

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