Deacon Blue set to finish upcoming UK
tour with special Christmas gig at Glasgow's The Hydro
Daily Record 23rd March 2013
THE Glasgow band's special Christmas gig will take place on December
20th and will bring the curtain down on their 25th anniversary celebrations.
SCOTS rockers Deacon Blue are the latest big name to be announced for
Scotland’s largest purpose-built music venue The Hydro.
The Glasgow band, fronted by Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, will finish their
upcoming UK tour with a special Christmas gig on December 20th at the 12,000
seater venue in their hometown. It will bring down the curtain on the
chart-topping band’s 25th anniversary celebrations which saw the release of
their first new studio album in 12 years, The Hipsters.
Frontman Ricky Ross said: “After much discussion we thought we should end our
biggest tour for years in Glasgow. It’s the best place to crown off what has
been a remarkable 18 months for us since The Hipsters first appeared on the
radio in 2012.”
The Christmas concert comes at the end of the band’s biggest tour in over a
decade, which will see them return to London’s Royal Albert Hall in September
and make their debut at the 20th anniversary of T In The Park in July. They’ll
also play at this summer’s V Festivals in Chelmsford and Stafford in August.
The Hydro date will be their biggest headline show in Scotland since reforming
in 1999. Other acts to be confirmed for the venue, currently still under
construction on the banks of the Clyde and scheduled to open in six months,
include Fleetwood Mac, The Proclaimers and Simple Minds. The arena show follows
a return to the charts with comeback album The Hipsters which scored the Glasgow
outfit, famed for anthems Dignity,
Fergus Sings The Blues and Real Gone Kid, a number one on the British indie
chart last September, and went top 20 in the UK album charts. The band will also
release the fourth single from The Hipsters, Turn, on Monday.
Meanwhile, lead singer Ricky Ross will embark on a stripped-back solo tour next
month, featuring low-key versions of his band’s catalogue plus new material from
his “modern folk” album Trouble Came Looking, which is out on 8 April. He’ll
play Kirkwall Arts Centre (26 April), Ullapool Village Hall (27 April), An
Lanntiar, Stornoway (29 April), Dunferline’s Carnegie Hall (1 May), Dundee’s
Gardyne Hall (3 May) and Stirling’s Tolbooth on 4 May.
Paul English