Deacon Blue To Play York's Grand Opera House In June & Tickets
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Deacon Blue are to play York Grand Opera House on Friday 24th June 2011. Deacon Blue Tickets for this show are on sale now.
Deacon Blue are one of the most commercially successful British bands of the time, with 18 UK Top 40 hit singles and 5 Top 5 UK albums, 2 of which were No 1 albums. Deacon Blue first stormed the charts back in 1988 with the single, ‘Dignity.’ Other hits include ‘Real Gone Kid’ and ‘Chocolate Girl’. Whilst their 2005 'Singles' album hit the Top 20.
Deacon Blue have recently been on hiatus while Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, the married lead singers of the band, have concentrated on their side project McIntosh Ross, releasing the album ‘The Great Lakes’ in September 2009. Lorraine has also been treading the boards, appearing in “Beautiful Burnout” a stage production from The National Theatre of Scotland, part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ricky meanwhile, has been busy writing songs not only for Deacon Blue but for the likes of James Blunt, Ronan Keating, Will Young, Nanci Griffith, EG White and Jamie Cullum amongst others.
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