This Autumn, Lorraine and Ricky of Deacon Blue will take their new album The Great Lakes on the road under the name McIntosh Ross.

After more than two decades in and out of Deacon Blue, Lorraine has launched a career as an actress while Ricky has been working as a songwriter for artists including James Blunt and Jamie Cullum. At the same time, writing, recording and performing their own music remains central in both their lives and the pair decided they wanted to make an album together of beautiful, meaningful and simple songs that they could call, justly and equally, their own. The result is The Great Lakes, an album of supreme melodic grace and spiritual purity, which combines echoes of the duo's Celtic homeland with the country twang of the American south.

Mon 9th Nov 09 Gateshead The Sage http://www.thesagegateshead.org/
Wed 11th Nov 09 Birkenhead Pacific Road www.pacificroad.co.uk
Thu 12th Nov 09 Worcester Hungtingdon Hall http://www.huntingdonhall.com
Fri 13th Nov 09 Wavendeon The Stables http://www.stables.org
Sat 14th Nov 09 London Cadogan Hall

Scottish dates to be announced soon.

 

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Deacon Blue have announced that bass player Ged Grimes and guitarist Gregor Philp will join the band for their forthcoming UK shows including a series of summer dates and a tour with Simple Minds later in the year.  Ged Grimes and Gregor Philp will be replacing Scott Fraser and Taj Wyzgowski respectively and a video of Ged & Gregor at work during recent band rehearsals is now available to view at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25dnwtndq3g  
 
As one of the founding members of Dundee pop band "Danny Wilson", Ged enjoyed major global success with the group and hit records such as "Mary's Prayer" made a lasting impression on fans of timeless, crafted pop music.  He has recorded and performed with many leading artistes worldwide including Grammy Award Winner Natalie Imbruglia and Brit Award Winner, Eddi Reader. Ged launched his music production company Jack's Hoose Music in 1997. His music has featured in many top selling Playstation and Xbox games such as "Enter The Matrix", "Amplitude" and "Earthworm Jim" and in feature film trailers such as 'The Bourne Supremacy".

Half-man, half-guitar, Gregor Philp was born under the little-known star sign of Rickenbacker.  Born too late for Vaudeville, he joined the artfully named Swiss Family Orbison with Kit Clark (Danny Wilson) and Dougie Vipond (Deacon Blue), which had John Peel among its many admirers.  Multi-instrumentalist Gregor is also one of the country's most respected TV and film composers; his versatility shown by work as diverse as Balamory (BBC) and film work such as Young Adam, where he worked with David Byrne.  ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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