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On this day, 19 October 1988, Scottish rock band Deacon Blue played Cardiff University on their Through The Villages And Towns tour.
This predominantly Glaswegian act became one of the top-selling UK bands of the late 1980s/early 1990s. The group's members were Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewan Vernal and Graeme Kelling.
Ross, a former school teacher originally from Dundee, was the group's frontman, penning the vast majority of Deacon Blue's songs. He married female vocalist Lorraine McIntosh in the later years of the band's career. McIntosh, born May 1964 in Glasgow joined the band in 1987 as a vocalist.
The band's first album, Raintown, produced by Jon Kelly and released in 1987, is regarded by many as the band's finest effort, spawning the singles "Dignity", "Chocolate Girl" and "Loaded". Many consider Raintown to be a concept album, since nearly all the songs contribute to the overall theme of being stuck in a dead-end life in a deprived city longing for something better. The city that the album's title refers to is Glasgow, and the memorable cover art of the album is a shot of the River Clyde's docks taken on a miserable day from Kelvingrove Park.
The second album, 1988's When The World Knows Your Name, was the band's most commercially successful, with the mega-selling singles "Real Gone Kid", "Wages Day" and "Fergus Sings The Blues". However, music critics began deriding the band at this stage for pursuing commercial success over artistic quality, citing the earlier achievements of Raintown.
Setlist
Fergus Sings the Blues
The Very Thing
Love's Great Fears
Born Again
This Changing Light
One Hundred Things
Raintown
Circus Lights
Chocolate Girl
Loaded / A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now
Real Gone Kid
Wages Day
Dignity
Long Distance Love / When Will You Make My Telephone Ring?
Ragman
Town to Be Blamed / Tinseltown in the Rain
Suffering
Not Fade Away / Ain't That Good News
