In June 2025, it was announced that founding member James Prime had died following a “short struggle with cancer”.
The band’s eleventh studio album, The Great Western Road , is scheduled to be released on 21 March 2025. During the same month, they are set to embark on an arena tour across the United Kingdom and Ireland which includes their first date at the Wembley Arena in London since…
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To promote the release of the album, the band announced the Riding on the Tide of Love tour which is scheduled to begin in June 2021 in Brighton and concludes on 19 December 2021 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. In September 2023, they released the compilation album All The…
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During the COVID-19 pandemic , the band recorded and released their tenth studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love which was released in February 2021. The album failed to reach the same level of commercial success in the United Kingdom that the band experienced with their previous album,…
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The band released their ninth studio album entitled City of Love on 6 March 2020, to critical acclaim. The album received positive reviews and achieved commercial success. The album charted at number one in their native Scotland, number four in the United Kingdom and peaked at number fifty in Spain.
Between February and March 2018, Deacon Blue embarked on a tour of Spain , marking the first time that the band has played a series of live shows in Spain. The band described the shows as “an incredible experience for us all”, and later confirmed that Deacon Blue will be…
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A new studio album, Believers , was released on 30 September 2016. Three promo singles, the title track, “This Is A Love Song” and “Gone” have been released. A tour was undertaken to promote the album, culminating in a return to the Glasgow Barrowlands on 4 December 2016, which was…
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To promote the upcoming release of their new album, the group released a single, ” The Hipsters “. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2012. The album The Hipsters was released on 24 September 2012 and was produced by Paul Savage . A 25th anniversary…
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In 2012, it was announced Deacon Blue had new management, Paul Loasby and Tom O’Rourke, and had signed a recording contract and would release a new album that year.
Deacon Blue appeared at The Homecoming Live Final Fling Show, at Glasgow’s SECC on 28 November 2009, and headlined Glasgow’s Hogmanay on 31 December 2009. The band performed several gigs, including Glastonbury, and the Liverpool Echo Arena on 29 July 2011. Ross, who had released a solo album before the…
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