Deacon Blue Duo McIntosh Ross Announce UK Tour Dates & Tickets
Friday, 09 April 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Lorraine McIntosh and Ricky Ross from the multi-million selling Scottish group Deacon Blue, take to the road this summer with an all-star band, under the name McIntosh Ross.
After more than two decades in and out of Deacon Blue, Lorraine has launched a career as an actress, appearing as a regular character in the Scottish soap River City, the current BBC drama series Hope Springs, and in several feature films.
The irony is that singing is now more central to her life than ever before. "I sing all the time," says Lorraine. "I sing more than Ricky. He couldn't survive if he could never write another song, but I simply couldn't live without the singing."
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.
Their duo’s first album as McIntosh Ross was last year's 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. "I don't think we consciously thought of Scotland or America," Ricky says. "It was more to do with the kind of songs we wanted to sing. These became more folky as the writing went on, while the more mainstream pop songs got disregarded. The main thing was that if it didn't seem like a genuinely significant song to both of us then it didn't get on the record."
McIntosh Ross Summer UK shows:
Monday 21st June - Birmingham Glee Club
Tuesday 22nd June - Brighton Komedia
Thursday 24th June - Bath Komedia
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