If you ask any member of Deacon Blue about this gig, even if you should quiz some of the crew, they will tell you they remember this occasion for the soundcheck as much as the concert itself. Aqualung was a sports/leisure hall somewhere outside Madrid where, in the afternoon as we prepared for the event… Read More
Our trip to Japan in 93 was a great experience if a little exhausting for us. Lorraine and I took our 9-month-old baby with us and in truth she never really got the memo about the time difference. So one of my main memories is of sitting through the night reading a book called ‘Officer… Read More
In 1991 we decided we didn’t love playing Arenas. We wanted to return to theatre-type spaces and play the kind of shows we’d always done: expansive, slightly unpredictable and fairly eclectic. This was the last show of the year for that tour. As I recall it we’d always imagined it would be a proper Hogmanay… Read More
In 1991 we decided we wanted to play theatres again after not enjoying our Arena shows the year before. Commercially it didn’t make as much sense but, for me, it helped us rediscover something about the spontaneity of playing live we’d been missing. A happy time for the band; everyone playing well and we brought… Read More
Coming to Spain in the autumn of 1990 was a great time for us. We’d had a run of arena shows in the UK which involved a massive crew of sound and light people we no longer knew by name. The shows in Spain were just ourselves with our regular team around us. My memory… Read More