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Looking back on this gig it’s amazing to think we are about 4 shows from a year when we can’t even get together to rehearse, never mind play again. We had an exhausting but brilliant tour in Australia and New Zealand in 2019. Every night was a sell out show and Melbourne was the night… Read More

It is great for me to remember special nights when all things came together. We visited a city we hadn’t been to for a good long time, we drove through the rain to get there and when we did we found an audience determined to have one of the best nights of their lives. Sometimes… Read More

We were all living in A New House on this tour. Almost half the songs in the main set are from the new albums we’d recorded over the previous two years. We also performed a rare outing of our Christmas release from the previous year. Look out too for one of my most loved acoustic… Read More

We were to play at the opening series of shows in Glasgow’s Hydro when it was first opened built near the old SECC in Glasgow. Inevitably the opening got delayed so it wasn’t till later in the year, and the final night of the tour that we played. Unlike its neighbour it’s an arena which… Read More

I remember this RAH show in a strange way. It’s almost if, over the course of the night, the grand old space became a club gig. My memory of it is I felt like I was watching as much as performing…the whole space just seemed to be one group of people with the same intention… Read More

In 2012 we found our mojo again. Lewis Gordon had joined us on bass and Gregor Philp on guitar had played a huge role in working with me on the arrangements of the songs for The Hipsters – our first album of new material in over a decade. Here we play seven out of the… Read More

Although the early ‘noughties’ were an odd time for us, we kept playing live and found we still had a connection with our audience – twenty years on from that first album. Manchester Apollo is and has always been one of the great rock n roll theatres. Here we finished the night on a song… Read More

In 2001 we had been back together, but not as we were. For a start, Ewen was no longer with us and the work we’d all started to do in the years between ’94 and ’99 had taken us in different directions. Dougie had started a successful TV job and was no longer able to… Read More

To my knowledge this is the only show we ever played in Berlin. We loved playing in Germany but it was often a balancing act to make the show for our local fans and not about rowdy British squaddies. Other than that, it was a very hot night.

One of the reasons I remember less about shows in 1993 is the fact Lorraine and I were touring with a nine-month-old baby coming along for the ride. It was full on, but enjoyable and the show time was often the simplest two hours of the day. You will hear too that we finished with… Read More