Deacon Blue have announced The Great Western Road Trip UK & Ireland Tour 2025, including album release theatre shows followed by a run of arena dates.

Deacon Blue Tour Dates:

Edinburgh Usher Hall, 30 March
Bradford St George’s Hall, 31
Bristol Beacon, 02 April
Cambridge Corn Exchange, 03
London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, 04
Liverpool M&S Bank Arena, 19 Sept
Brighton Centre, 20
Birmingham Utilita Arena, 22
Leeds First Direct Arena, 23
Bournemouth International Centre, 25
Cardiff Utilita Arena, 26
Nottingham Motorpoint Arena, 28
Sheffield Utilita Arena, 29
Manchester AO Arena, 01 Oct
London OVO Arena Wembley, 03
Hull Connexin Live, 05
Newcastle Utilita Arena, 06
Dublin 3Arena, 08
Glasgow OVO Hydro, 10
Glasgow OVO Hydro, 11

Tickets on sale Friday (29 November) at 10am from Gigantic Ticketmaster AXS

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The Scottish pop-rock group will hit the road in support of their brand-new studio album entitled ‘The Great Western Road’, due out on 21 March 2025 via Cooking Vinyl.

2025 marks 40 years since Ricky Ross met Dougie Vipond and they started to form Deacon Blue. The songs on the new full-length reflect the journey the band has taken and remain honest to the age and experience they all share.

Ricky Ross commented, “It’s just the next part of the adventure and it’s as exciting now as it was back in 1988.”

Discussing the upcoming tour and the two differing sets of dates, he continued, “I love the idea that a circus coming to town is a temporary existence, a little bit of magic suddenly appears in the middle of a town or a village and then it goes away. It’s very similar to what you do live. The live experience is so ephemeral, at the end of a show people lose all their inhibitions, and then it’s over. You have to be there. That’s what’s magical about it.”

“There will be two different shows, we’re curating a show that changes and evolves, pulling out little surprises every now and again. The theatres are more intimate and give us a chance to bring out one or two things that we wouldn’t do in the arenas. They give us a chance to play songs from the new album and songs from other albums that we have never played before. And we have some amazing nights at the big shows in the arenas, we suit the show to the place we’re playing and our mantra is ‘we want people to have the best night of their lives’. Every night has got to be brilliant.”

‘The Great Western Road’ was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios and sees Ricky Ross and Deacon Blue guitarist/long-term collaborator Gregor Philp return to production duties. The pair previously produced the band’s last full-length, the Top 5 charting 2020 ‘City Of Love’.

The new album will be preceded by lead single ‘Late ’88’ on 29 November 2024.

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