Deacon Blue

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott plus guests Deacon Blue.

It is now 29 years since the band – founded in Glasgow and famously named after a Steely Dan song Deacon Blues" – released their million-selling debut album, Raintown, in 1987. A string of bestsellers followed, then a reunion show in 1999 and a follow-up album in 2001, and the band continued to reconvene whenever there was a good reason to do so...

But it the success of their 2012 release, The Hipsters, which marked the beginning for the band: a return to days when a new, ground-breaking album and a major UK tour was never more than a couple of years away. Their new album, Believers, was released this year.