Deacon Blue BBC Breakfast 2023

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s, so if you're a fan of Deacon Blue you'll know those songs; otherwise you'll learn more about the 80s Glasgow band in just a moment, talking to Ricky and Ryan in just a moment here's a look back and Ricky and Lorraine walk in now and the first thing Lorraine does is pour water yeah , what are you a naturally clumsy person? Is it just one of those things? There's a design flaw in these people and I want someone to sort out, well, the editors in the gallery, okay, I'm sorry these things happen when you're doing things live, yes, exactly, yes, and performing live for you, that's still the rumor, that's the rumor, in fact, hugely so.

I mean, I've been thinking about that. I couldn't find myself thinking at night about the tour, you know, because you just have to go through your head and imagine everything and think of all the possibilities. So yes, it is still possible. What do possibilities mean? like the good and the bad, not life on the road, because one of the things about doing the Deacon Blue show is that we change it a lot, so we start one way and maybe end another way, yeah, and then Night after night. It changes, so I'm always trying to figure it out, because there's also a lot of material to get through, so that's one of the fun things about going out on the road, is just mixing and matching all that material, how long has it been?

You two have been performing together for 35 years or something, yeah we're starting some hiatuses, uh we had a hiatus in '94, was it for five years? Okay, so since then, since '99, you know, 24 years, yeah, is there some kind of telepathy? you know the right word when you're on stage and you think the crowd actually wants this and you can just communicate with it there it is and I think we leave that in Ricky's hands so he knows and feels and and it doesn't happen that often, but to Sometimes you're making a set list and you think this isn't what the crowd needs and this isn't quite working at this point, so it's going to turn around and change things and that's when we need to be, I mean, obviously, because I put the ones you know, I invited everyone to be in the band first and I just decided that everyone has to be 10 times better musicians than me and they're always around you and they're brilliant, so if I get a Doogie and I say listen, you don't know Hotmail, let's go somewhere else and also if I forget something I always said, that's the TV that really encodes what it's like now since you were first together. 35 years ago what is the post show the post show relaxation party I don't know what it should be varied unfortunately the truth is especially for singers, you can't, you know, leave the stage and chat with people and we leave the stage. and we sit and blow into vocal straws and we drink water and we drink tea and we don't talk it's so boring it's not glamorous it's so annoying it's been like this for a long time because it's quite vocal you know it's a vocal intensive show yeah but in the old days before we knew any of this, we used to come off stage and have a bag, have a big glass of wine at the party and then you'd have no say next door, but you were more interesting, but not to the audience of the day following. and you couldn't sing uh Dwayne take us back because from what I understand a bus was used on the streets of Glasgow that's how I did it and I also did it before they met or yeah well we knew each other but No I was in the band or nothing.

He used to busk with my brother and my friend and we were really good and in fact I have to say that one day we were busking to a Ricky Ross song and he came out of his rehearsal room. with his band because it was on Buchanan Street and we were doing one of you, remember, yeah, if you hadn't met before that or we, yeah, we were all in a big group of friends, yeah, and we did it, I think you guys we gave two quid 50 and then you know, royalties, you know, um, I love the old stuff, but and when you're a fan of that stuff, you can't, because I'm stuck in my ways, I tend to gravitate towards that stuff, but you're producing these things and I'm always interested, let's listen, let's listen to something new.

I'm interested in the balance of how you present it to those who were fans and still are and bringing in new ones, this is um, peace will. Come on, he's still alive but he's coming home. Oh, we know that peace will come today. You know, I'm so glad you protected your voices because they sound beautiful. Oh thanks. And I guess I mean, that's one of the issues. It is not like this? It's instantly recognizable that it's you two, even if it's a new song, yeah, I think that's probably what brings us together. That song was actually written in an argument on the way home from a festival a couple of years ago about Lorraine saying well, let's move on. dignity in the same way we have done for a long time, can we do something else?

And I went home and I started messing around with that idea in the same tone and the same thing and that song didn't come up and it came up at an interesting time because it came up before what happened in Ukraine, but it coalesced as a kind of hope, because You know, I think one of the tragedies is that we've given up, you know, now we have a war in Europe, which is one of the things we thought we'd never have and it just became this kind of song that when we came out last year past and we recorded it, when we finally did our shows in Glasgow, it became a kind of song about what was happening in Europe too, you know, look at some of your old videos and stuff, and I used to think it reminded me of Ricky , that thing you're quite intense on stage in your performance was that yeah, well I when The first time I saw the band before I was a band, it was manic, you know the intensity really, oh yeah, I think when You are young and you are in a band and you have a lot to see and want. convince people of what you're saying, I mean, but that was the force that was the appeal, well, he realized, he really did, yeah, I apologize, you know it's a passion, don't you?

Yeah, it is, I mean, and you know, I guess instead of being a songwriter, you know, if you're a songwriter and you've done it and you're desperate to get these songs out, that's been my motivation all along, as soon as you write a song, you have that thing about even in the first point, yeah, I think one of us is going to sound like it's an audience, it's terrible, but you know you jump to that point, but you do it very well this morning, thanks for invite us and good luck with the tour, thank you very much, all the old 45s, the best of Deacon

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and you can have it, the complete collection of albums released today and as I said, they will be on tour in September.