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Thursday 31st May
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DEACON
BLUE – “Has
the reputation as one of the best live acts in the UK.…broke
the world record for the fastest sell-out”. |
One of Scotland’s
greatest exports! Formed in 1985, this predominantly Glaswegian
band were one of the top-selling UK bands of the late 1980s/early
1990s. The group's original line up Ricky Ross, Lorraine
McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewan Vernal and Graeme
Kelling. Ricky, 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.
The band's debut 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 from Kelvingrove Park on a miserable day.
The second
album, 1989's When The World Knows Your Name, was the band's
most commercially successful, featuring the extremely popular
singles "Real Gone Kid", "Wages Day",
and "Fergus Sings The Blues". By now the band
had also gained a reputation as one of the best live acts
in the UK. Ticket sales for shows in Glasgow's SECC in
both May and December of 1989 would break the world record
at the time for the fastest sell-out. The following year
saw the band play in front of an estimated 250,000 fans
at the free concert on Glasgow Green "The Big Day”.
The band also played Glastonbury and the Roskilde festivals
that summer, as well as released a double album of B-sides,
extra tracks, film tracks and sessions titled "Ooh
Las Vegas". This seemed to confirm the band's eminent
status by reaching No. 3 in the UK album charts.
Jon Kelly
returned to the producer's chair in 1991 for Fellow Hoodlums,
and the album was met with more critical success. The album
peaked at No.2 in the UK album charts. This album was followed
up with 1993's Whatever You Say, Say
Nothing, a much more
experimental album in the vein of U2's Achtung Baby, which
garnered critical praise. The band embarked on another
sold out UK tour in 1994, but not before recording new
material for the greatest hits compilation "Our Town".
This saw the band return to No. 1 in the UK album charts
and was one of the year's top sellers, while "I Was
Right & You Were Wrong" and "Dignity" saw
the band reenter the Top 20 singles chart.
With Vipond's
decision to quit the group in favour for a career in television,
Deacon Blue split up in 1994. Ricky had a solo career in
the mid-'90s. The band made an unexpected reunion gig in
1999, and this led on to a new album in 2000, Walking Back
Home, with the band now working on a part-time basis. Though
Graeme Kelling died from cancer in 2004, the band has vowed
to continue in his absence. Ricky later resurrected his
solo career. Epic released his second solo album "What
You Are" in 1996. He then released "New Recording" on
his own label in 1997.
After landing a new publishing deal
with Warner Chappell UK he also found a new label Papillion through whom Deacon Blue's "Homesick" album was
released in 2001. This was followed by Ricky's solo effort "This
Is The Life" in 2002. He then released "Pale
Rider" in 2005 through P3 Music. As part of his publishing
deal with Warner Chappell he also began co-writing with
other artists. He currently spends more time on this than
on his solo career or Deacon Blue projects. To date he
has written for and with James Blunt, Ronan Keating, K.T.
Tunstall, David Sneddon, Cathy Burton, Gareth Gates, Emma
Bunton and several others.
2006 saw Deacon Blue returning
to the studio to record three new tracks for a "Singles" album
- including the track "Bigger Than Dynamite".
The band performed at Manchester United's Old Trafford
stadium, as the pre-match entertainment for the Rugby League
Super League Grand Final on the 14 October, and continued
on to a full UK tour in November.
Deacon Blue regularly
perform to total sell outs and still one of the best live
bands on the touring circuit – don’t miss them!
We are extremely pleased to have secured Deacon Blue for
the Peel Bay Festival, bringing their own unique and distinctive
style of music. |
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PAUL CARRACK – The voice of many classic
and enduring hits
Paul's recording career began with
the progressive rock band Warm Dust, who released 3 albums
of original material between 1970 and 1972. Paul was the
keyboard player for Warm Dust, and occasionally played
other instruments as well, but he was not the band's lead
vocalist. After Warm Dust broke up, Paul and Warm Dust
bassist Tex Comer helped to found the rock band Ace. Paul
wrote and sang "How Long", Ace's debut single
and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1975.
In 1977
Ace disbanded and Paul began working as a backing musician
for Frankie Miller. This was followed by a turn as a member
of Roxy Music, playing keyboards on their 1979 reunion
album Manifesto. Paul would also play on the next two Roxy
Music albums, but as a session musician, not a band member.
Shortly after leaving Roxy Music full time, Paul issued
his first solo album, 1980's Nightbird.
In 1981, Glenn Tilbrook recruited
Paul to join Squeeze as a replacement for long-time keyboardist Jools Holland.
This new Squeeze line-up achieved international success
with the album East Side Story, on which Paul sang their
biggest US hit to that time, "Tempted." Beginning
in late 1981, Paul had joined up with Nick Lowe in a band
that featured Lowe, Paul, Martin Belmont on guitar, James
Eller on bass and Bobby Irwin on drums. This band, referred
to as Noise To Go existed to back both Paul on his solo
recordings, and Lowe on his. (This was similar to the arrangement
Lowe had with Dave Edmunds and Rockpile in the late 1970s.) "Noise
To Go" also backed Lowe's wife Carlene Carter on her
1981 album Blue Nun.
After Paul's 1982 solo album Suburban
Voodoo, Eller left Noise To Go, and Nick Lowe took over
bass duties within the group. The group was rechristened
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, and recorded two albums
from 1983 to 1985, with Lowe handling all the lead vocals.
They also played behind John Hiatt on side two of Hiatt's
1983 album Riding With The King. During this era, Paul
also kept himself busy with session work for The Smiths
and The Pretenders.
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit dissolved
in 1985, but around the same time, Paul
was contacted by Mike Rutherford (of Genesis) and asked
to join Rutherford's new side project, Mike + The Mechanics. Initially, Paul
was one of two alternating lead vocalists for the group.
He sang lead on their 1985 hit "Silent Running (On
Dangerous Ground)".
In 1986, Paul was a member of
Roger Waters' (of Pink Floyd) newly-formed backing band, "The
Bleeding Hearts Band", recording tracks for the soundtrack
of the film When The Wind Blows. The following year, Waters
(still accompanied by Paul and the Bleeding Hearts) released
a solo album, Radio KAOS, and toured the US and Europe.
Paul often filled in as an unofficial headliner on the
tour, usually playing "Tempted" to warm up the
crowd. Leveraging the success of Mike + The Mechanics,
Paul was able to reestablish his solo career in 1987 with
the hit album One Good Reason, and the accompanying hit
single "Don't Shed A Tear".
From this point forward,
Paul usually managed to maintain both a solo career and
a career in Mike + The Mechanics, a band which recorded
and toured irregularly due to Rutherford's commitments
to Genesis. In 1988, Mike + The Mechanics had a number
1 hit with the "The Living Years", on which Paul
again sang lead. In 1989, Paul recorded a duet with Terri
Nunn from the Los Angeles based synth-pop band Berlin entitled "Romance".
The song appeared on the soundtrack to the movle Sing,
starring Peter Dobson and Lorraine Bracco.
Paul continued working with Mike +
The Mechanics, who continued
to record through the 1990s. During this era, Paul assumed
keyboard duties within the band, and also began to co-compose
some of the band's songs with Rutherford. In 1990, Paul
was recruited to perform in the ground breaking live stage
show of The Wall in Berlin by Roger Waters. He performed "Hey
You" to the crowd of 250,000.
In 1993, Paul joined
with bassist Tony Levin, drummer Steve Ferrone, guitarist
Phil Palmer and keyboardist/producer Rupert Hine to form
a band known as Spin 1ne 2wo. They released one album,
a self-titled project, made up of classic rock covers including
songs by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith,
Steely Dan and Bob Dylan. Also in 1993, Squeeze had Paul
return for their album Some Fantastic Place and a subsequent
tour. With Paul on vocals, the band re-recorded their hit "Tempted" for
the soundtrack to the movie "Reality Bites" (1994).
Following his second stint with Squeeze, Paul joined forces
with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder of The Eagles. Schmit
and Felder reunited with the rest of the Eagles and their
Hell Freezes Over album, bringing with them one of the
songs Paul co-wrote, "Love Will Keep Us Alive." It
was recorded by The Eagles, and won an award as being the
most-played single in America in 1995.
Finally in 1996,
Paul resumed his solo career with the album Blue
Views. Paul maintains his active solo career, as well as
his career as a session musician. He also became Mike +
The Mechanics only lead vocalist after the death of Paul
Young in 2000. In 2004, the band was officially re-named
Mike + The Mechanics & Paul
Carrack. Paul's distinctive voice and keyboard skills have
kept him in demand as a session musician on many projects.
Some of his credits include:
• Keyboards on The
Smiths' eponymous debut album, The Smiths (1984)
• Piano
on The Pretenders album Learning To Crawl (1983)
• Keys
and vocals on Roger Waters' "Radio K.A.O.S." (1987)
and subsequent tour
• Organ on Elton John's Made
in England (1996) and The Big Picture (1997)
• Organ
and vocals on B.B. King's Deuces Wild (1997)
• Touring
with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band (2003)
In 1997, Paul
played organ for Elton John on the single "Something
About The Way You Look Tonight". Coupled with "Candle
In The Wind '97", this became the best selling single
of all time.
Paul still enjoys great acclaim and great
success and the Peel Bay Festival is extremely pleased
to have such a renowned and successful artist appearing
in its first year. Welcome Paul. |
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STEVE
GIBBONS – ‘The
Musical Face of the TT’
Unique and timeless – the
legend that’s Steve Gibbons has withstood the fads
and fashions of the music business for over four decades. Analyse his music and superb self-penned songs and you’ll
find the influences of blues, country, even psychedelia.
Born in Birmingham, he first came
to prominence as the leader of The Ugly’s,
an uncompromising outfit at the forefront of the city’s
burgeoning 1960s music scene. By the early 1970s
he had formed the five-piece Steve
Gibbons Band which enjoyed
success in the singles charts during the next decade and
has been perennially popular on the live circuit ever since.
With a huge international following,
his long career has encompassed 15 albums and along the way he has worked and
toured with many bands including The Who, Little Feat,
Lynard Skynard and E.L.O. In 1981 SGB responded to an invitation
from the German Democratic Republic and become the first
western rock band to tour the major cities of East Germany.
Steve is an inspired songwriter and many of his songs feature
colourful characters, the most notable cover of a Steve
Gibbons song is the title track of Roger Daltrey’s
album “One Of The Boys”.
With a huge repertoire
of original material to draw on, his set list
is always fresh and surprising, he draws the audience into
a musical world with it’s own special history and
culture, in his hands rock ‘n’ roll is a magical
force. It’s a formula that works in venues as diverse
as Ronnie Scotts, Madison Square Garden, or the Isle of
Man TT Races, and it’s a formula that has won him
tremendous respect from fellow musicians.
These days Steve
is as busy as ever with appearances as a solo
artist, with SGB, or touring with guitarist P.J Wright
and Fairport Convention’s
Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol and Gerry Conway as The Dylan Project.
In 2004 Steve was invited to join the legendary Scotty
Moore on a live show filmed and recorded at Abbey Road
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘That’s
Alright Mama’, Elvis Presley’s fist release
. Long live rock ‘n’ roll. LINE-UP STEVE GIBBONS
- VOCALS, GUITAR HOWARD SMITH - DRUMS ROGER INNISS - BASS
PHIL BOND - PIANO, ACCORDIAN HOWARD GREGORY - GUITAR, VIOLIN
DISCOGRAPHY:
1971 Short Stories
1976 Any Road Up
1977
Rolling On
1977 Caught In The Act
1978 Down In The Bunker
1980 Street Parade
1982 Saints And Sinners
1985 On The
Loose
1990 Riding Out The Dark
1991 Maintaining Radio Silence
1993 Birmingham To Memphis
1996 Stained Glass
1998 The
Dylan Project
1998 Live At The Robin
2005 The Dylan Project
2
2006 Scotty Moore & Friends- A Tribute To The King
(DVD)
The Peel Bay Festival welcomes the living musical
TT Legend Steve Gibbons to the Festival Stage |
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