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Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
@Maxximum23Clark
1:18 PM 20th December 2014
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Review: Deacon Blue - Harrogate Conference Centre

 
Deacon Blue made a huge return earlier this year with their album A New House. It appears that their fans have not forgotten them judging by tonight's large audience.

They pleased fans new and old with a two hour set that blended tracks from their career and ones off the new album.

Lead singer Ricky Ross swaps between piano and front man whilst Lorraine Mcintosh is as energetic as you remember her.

The set opens with a track off the new album; Bethlehem Begins is one of the best tracks off the album but things really warm up when Queen of the New Year is played, the first track of many of their big hits. Raintown and Wages Day find the audience up on their feet.

Ross informs the fans how he has just become a user of Twitter before he launches into another big hit, Fergus Sings the Blues. They still do the Tom Waits song, Long Way Home but it was When Will You (Make my Telephone Ring) and Dignity, hit songs of their own that had the crowd singing loudly.

Ross informs the fans that this was the first time that they have played in Harrogate and after tonight's well received show, it will not be the last.