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Having been on stage with people who were very, very shy and spent the hour in a room full of people – who had paid to get in – talking about how painful it was for them to be on stage, I decided not to do that, because it’s exhausting!” Mina says candidly. It’s clear from the ease with which he delivers this ominous line that Murton is more than up to the task of entertaining a live audience. Winter Words is ‘diverse’ festival As of 2012, Deacon Blue's total album sales stood at six million, [5] with twelve UK top 40 singles, along with two UK number one albums. [5] Solo work (1984–present) [ edit ] So walking through these beautiful glens, absorbing and taking in the magnificent landscape, you’re walking through a landscape stained with blood.”

There are two big things that I’ve left out,” he adds. “I don’t talk much about my children [he has four, three of them with Lorraine], and I don’t really talk about my first marriage. Because that’s someone else’s story, and I didn’t think it was fair.”

There’s lots of stuff about the band, but also lots that’s very personal – material that would really be of no consequence to anyone else, but meant a lot to me. Just 24 hours later Short Stories Volume 2 will be released, an album recorded at home alongside contributions from Deacon Blue band-mates Lorraine McIntosh and Gregor Philp. As part of his publishing deal with Warner Chappell, Ross began co-writing with other artists. He currently spends more time writing than on his solo career or Deacon Blue projects. To date he has written for and with James Blunt, Ronan Keating, KT Tunstall, David Sneddon, Cathy Burton, Gareth Gates, Emma Bunton, Will Young and Jamie Cullum among others. [ citation needed]

Ross is married to Deacon Blue member Lorraine McIntosh and they have four children together. They married on 12 May 1990. [7] [8] Discography [ edit ] Solo albums [ edit ] I had no sense that was something that I fought against hugely because there was a real sense of love and community in my family. That probably comes out in the book.” Memories of Mary Poppins The band's tenth studio album City of Love was released on 6 March 2020. In February 2021, they released their eleventh studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love to commercial success in both the UK and their native Scotland.For all these years I've told stories. Sometimes these days I also tell them on the radio. I've met some amazing people and their stories need told too. The first time Deacon Blue ever played Wembley Arena I started to introduce a song only to hear, "Get on with it" shouted from Row Z. We proceeded with the song, but I often thought I'd quite like to finish that story.' There are sepia-toned recollections of the roles his grandparents played in his young life, and insights into the stifling nature of an upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren. Passages about the dawning realisation of his father’s mental health struggles and, much later, well-intentioned events going wrong in the days preceding his mother’s death in 2020, are especially moving. His recollections of his days as a youth worker in Dundee, and as a young teacher in Glasgow, suggest that had the nascent songwriting flame not taken hold, working with young people would have delivered their own, harder-won, joys.