Deacon Blue

Biography

Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow in 1985, currently consisting of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, drummer Dougie Vipond, guitarist Gregor Philp and bassist Lewis Gordon. In 2013, their estimated album sales stood at six million, and by 2020 were estimated to have risen to in excess of seven million, with twelve UK top 40 singles, along with two number one albums in both the United Kingdom and Scotland.
The band released their debut album, Raintown×Raintown1 May 1987 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Born in a Storm1:332Raintown3:503Ragman3:084He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now3:515Loaded4:316When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)5:017Chocolate Girl3:208Dignity4:009The Very Thing3:3410Love's Great Fears3:4211Town to Be Blamed5:1812Riches2:3713Kings of the Western World2:40 (1987) to critical and commercial success, with their second album, When the World Knows Your Name×When the World Knows Your Name1989 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Queen of the New Year3:362Wages Day3:103Real Gone Kid4:044Love and Regret4:485Circus Lights4:596This Changing Light5:027Sad Loved Girl1:128Fergus Sings the Blues3:559The World Is Lit by Lightning4:2810Silhouette3:1911One Hundred Things3:5412Your Constant Heart4:1113Orphans3:33 (1989), topping the UK Albums Chart for two weeks. The single "Real Gone Kid×Real Gone Kid1988 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Real Gone Kid2Little Lincoln3Born Again4It’s Not Funny Anymore" became their first top ten single in the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in Spain. Deacon Blue followed up the success of their first two albums with Fellow Hoodlums×Fellow Hoodlums3 June 1991 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1James Joyce Soles3:532Fellow Hoodlums3:223Your Swaying Arms4:134Cover From the Sky3:375The Day That Jackie Jumped the Jail3:456The Wildness5:487A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine4:388Twist and Shout3:379Closing Time6:1210Goodnight Jamsie1:4911I Will See You Tomorrow3:2412One Day I’ll Go Walking5:03 (1991) and Whatever You Say, Say Nothing×Whatever You Say, Say Nothing1993 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 10 tracks1Your Town5:222Only Tender Love5:113Peace & Jobs & Freedom4:524Hang Your Head4:055Bethlehem’s Gate4:486Last Night I Dreamed of Henry Thomas3:457Will We Be Lovers3:578Fall So Freely Down4:179Cut Lip3:3610All Over the World3:29 (1993). When Deacon Blue disbanded in 1994 until five years later, holding a reunion gig which led on to a new album, Walking Back Home×Walking Back Home11 October 1999 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 17 tracks1Love Hurts4:242Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain5:143The Very Thing3:354The Day That Jackie Jumped the Jall3:455Love and Regret5:026Christmas and Glasgow5:137The Wildness5:498When You Are Young3:499Love’s Great Fears3:4210Chocolate Girl3:1811Plastic Shoes3:4012A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine4:3813Beautiful Stranger3:5514All I Want4:4515When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)4:2116Walking Back Home5:0117I’ll Never Fall in Love Again2:49 (1999). The band released another album, Homesick×Homesick2001 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Rae4:462Out There3:473This Train Will Take You Anywhere4:494Everytime You Sleep4:075Now That You're Here4:016Silverlake4:367A Is for Astronaut3:038Beautifully Still4:129Homesick4:1510Even Higher Ground3:5311I Am Born4:22 (2001), the last to feature guitarist Graeme Kelling; he died from pancreatic cancer in 2004. In 2006, the band recorded three new songs for a Singles album – including the single "Bigger than Dynamite×Bigger Than Dynamite16 October 2006 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Bigger Than Dynamite3:252Deportee Song6:263Wild Horses5:30".
Deacon Blue returned after a period of absence to release The Hipsters (2012), their first studio album since Homesick in 2001. The band released a further four albums following their reunion – A New House×A New House8 September 2014 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Bethlehem Begins4:082For John Muir3:083A New House3:324An Ocean3:195The Living3:536I Wish I Was a Girl Like You3:357Win3:198Wild3:059March3:2110Our New Land3:5811I Remember Every Single Kiss4:15, (2014), Believers×Believers30 September 2016 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1The Believers3:382This Is a Love Song4:033I Will and I Won’t3:474Meteors3:035Gone3:376What I Left Out3:197A Boy3:148Birds5:569You Can’t Know Everything3:3910Delivery Man4:2511Come Awake3:5212B Boy1:47 (2016), City of Love (2020) and Riding on the Tide of Love (2021) to commercial success. In 2024, they released "Late '88" as the lead single from their eleventh studio album The Great Western Road×The Great Western Road21 March 2025 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1The Great Western Road4:492Late ’884:103People Come First3:464Wait on Me3:305Ashore3:566Underneath the Stars4:107Up Hope2:578Turn Up Your Radio!3:419How We Remember It4:0310Mid Century Modern4:1511Curve of the Line4:3912If I Lived on My Own2:48 (2025).

1985–1987: Formation and early years

Taking their name from the 1977 Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues", Deacon Blue were formed in 1985 following Ricky Ross's move from Dundee to Glasgow. Along with Ross, the group originally consisted of Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling.
Ross, a former school teacher originally from Dundee, was the group's frontman, penning the majority of Deacon Blue's songs. He married vocalist Lorraine McIntosh in 1990. In 1986, the band contributed a track ("Take the Saints Away") to a compilation cassette entitled "Honey at the Core", featuring then up-and-coming Glasgow bands, including Wet Wet Wet, The Bluebells, Kevin McDermott, The Big Dish, and Hue and Cry.

1987–1991: Raintown and When the World Knows Your Name

The band's debut album, Raintown×Raintown1 May 1987 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Born in a Storm1:332Raintown3:503Ragman3:084He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now3:515Loaded4:316When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)5:017Chocolate Girl3:208Dignity4:009The Very Thing3:3410Love's Great Fears3:4211Town to Be Blamed5:1812Riches2:3713Kings of the Western World2:40, produced by Jon Kelly was released in 1987. It spawned the singles "Dignity×DignityMarch 1987 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Dignity4:152Suffering2:433Just Like Boys3:144Shifting Sand3:18", "Chocolate Girl×Chocolate Girl1988 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Chocolate Girl3:352S.H.A.R.O.N.4:143The Very Thing (Livesey remix)3:414Love’s Great Fears (Brauer remix)3:39" and "Loaded×LoadedJune 1987 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracksALoaded4:29BLong Distance From Just Across the Road2:53". The city that the album's title refers to is Glasgow and the cover art of the album is a photograph (by the Scottish-Italian photographer Oscar Marzaroli) of the River Clyde's docks taken from Kelvingrove Park. It proved a commercial success and has to date sold around a million copies, peaking in the UK Albums Chart at No. 14 and remaining in that chart for a year and a half. On 27 February 2006, Raintown was reissued as part of Columbia's Legacy Edition series. The reissue was expanded to two CDs, the first of which featured the original 11 track album. The second CD featured alternate cuts of all 11 album tracks, as well as the two original CD bonus tracks "Riches" and "Kings of the Western World". The new edition did not include the varied bonus cuts (remixes and b-sides) that were found on the singles from the album.
The second album, 1989's When the World Knows Your Name×When the World Knows Your Name1989 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Queen of the New Year3:362Wages Day3:103Real Gone Kid4:044Love and Regret4:485Circus Lights4:596This Changing Light5:027Sad Loved Girl1:128Fergus Sings the Blues3:559The World Is Lit by Lightning4:2810Silhouette3:1911One Hundred Things3:5412Your Constant Heart4:1113Orphans3:33, was the band's most commercially successful, reaching No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart and generating five UK top 30 hits, including "Real Gone Kid×Real Gone Kid1988 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Real Gone Kid2Little Lincoln3Born Again4It’s Not Funny Anymore", "Wages Day×Wages Day1 April 1989 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracksAWages Day3:13BTake Me to the Place3:11", and "Fergus Sings the Blues×Fergus Sings the Blues1989 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Fergus Sings the Blues3:582Long Window to Love3:153London A to Z3:384Back Here in Beano Land3:04" (all five singles from the album were top 10 hits in Ireland). 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", which was held to celebrate Glasgow being named that year's European City of Culture. The band also played Glastonbury and the Roskilde festivals that summer, as well as released Ooh Las Vegas, a double album of B-sides, extra tracks, film tracks, and sessions which reached No. 3 in the UK Albums Chart.

1991–1994: Continued success and split

Jon Kelly returned to the producer's chair in 1991 for the album Fellow Hoodlums×Fellow Hoodlums3 June 1991 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1James Joyce Soles3:532Fellow Hoodlums3:223Your Swaying Arms4:134Cover From the Sky3:375The Day That Jackie Jumped the Jail3:456The Wildness5:487A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine4:388Twist and Shout3:379Closing Time6:1210Goodnight Jamsie1:4911I Will See You Tomorrow3:2412One Day I’ll Go Walking5:03. The album was met with more critical approval and peaked at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. Fellow Hoodlums was followed up by 1993's Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, a much more experimental album. The album was not as commercially successful as the previous two albums, peaking at No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Changing from producer Jon Kelly to the team of Steve Osborne and Paul Oakenfold, this album presented a change in musical style for Deacon Blue. While the band's songwriting remained based in rock and blues, many of the tracks moved into alternative rock territory in their presentation.
The band embarked on another sold out UK tour in 1994, after recording new material for their greatest hits compilation album, Our Town. This saw the band return to No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart and was one of the year's top sellers, while "I Was Right and You Were Wrong×I Was Right and You Were Wrong14 June 1994 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1I Was Right and You Were Wrong4:552Mexico Rain4:043Goin’ Back3:254Wages Day3:18" and a re-release of "Dignity×DignityMarch 1987 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Dignity4:152Suffering2:433Just Like Boys3:144Shifting Sand3:18" saw the band re-enter the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart. The album contained the previous singles×Singles16 October 2006 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 19 tracks1Dignity4:022Real Gone Kid4:053Wages Day3:114Fergus Sings the Blues3:595Twist and Shout3:376Bigger Than Dynamite3:277Your Swaying Arms4:138Your Town5:239I’ll Never Fall in Love Again2:4810Chocolate Girl3:1711When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)4:2012Love and Regret5:0113I Was Right and You Were Wrong4:5014Loaded4:3115Queen of the New Year3:3716Only Tender Love5:1117Cover From the Sky3:3718Haunted4:1719The One About Loneliness4:00 from the band, minus "Closing Time×Closing Time1991 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Closing Time4:192I Was Like That4:303Into the Good Night3:40" and "Hang Your Head×Hang Your Head28 June 1993 · EPSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Hang Your Head4:162Freedom Train (live)2:563Here on the Wind5:074Indigo Sky2:48". The album also contained three new tracks. "I Was Right and You Were Wrong", the first single from this album, was an alternative rock track that continued and expanded the musical direction the band had taken with Whatever You Say, Say Nothing. "Bound to Love" and "Still in the Mood" were pop songs in the tradition of Deacon Blue's earlier albums. The vinyl LP version of the album contained a fourth new track, "Beautiful Stranger". "Dignity" was released, now for the third time, as the second single from the album.
With Vipond's decision to quit the group in favour of a career in television, Deacon Blue split up in 1994.

1999–2012: Re–union and Walking Back Home

Five years later, the band held a reunion gig in 1999, and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home×Walking Back Home11 October 1999 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 17 tracks1Love Hurts4:242Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain5:143The Very Thing3:354The Day That Jackie Jumped the Jall3:455Love and Regret5:026Christmas and Glasgow5:137The Wildness5:498When You Are Young3:499Love’s Great Fears3:4210Chocolate Girl3:1811Plastic Shoes3:4012A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine4:3813Beautiful Stranger3:5514All I Want4:4515When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)4:2116Walking Back Home5:0117I’ll Never Fall in Love Again2:49, with the band now working on a part-time basis. The Walking Back Home album combined eight songs that were brand new compositions, previously unreleased tracks, or released only with limited availability, with nine previously released Deacon Blue songs. This was followed by another album, Homesick×Homesick2001 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Rae4:462Out There3:473This Train Will Take You Anywhere4:494Everytime You Sleep4:075Now That You're Here4:016Silverlake4:367A Is for Astronaut3:038Beautifully Still4:129Homesick4:1510Even Higher Ground3:5311I Am Born4:22, in 2001. Graeme Kelling died from pancreatic cancer in 2004, but the band continued and recorded three new tracks for a Singles album – including the track "Bigger than Dynamite×Bigger Than Dynamite16 October 2006 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Bigger Than Dynamite3:252Deportee Song6:263Wild Horses5:30" in 2006.
The band performed at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium, as the pre-match entertainment for the Rugby league Super League Grand Final on 14 October 2006, and continued on to a full UK tour in November. They were also due to open Stirling's New Year party in 2006, but this was cancelled at the last minute due to extreme weather. A further tour followed in November 2007 and the band then provided support for Simple Minds in 2008. They also appeared at Stirling's Hogmanay in 2008.
Deacon Blue appeared at The Homecoming Live Final Fling Show, at Glasgow's SECC on 28 November 2009, and headlined Glasgow's Hogmanay on 31 December 2009. The band performed several gigs, including Glastonbury, and the Liverpool Echo Arena on 29 July 2011. Ross, who had released a solo album before the formation of Deacon Blue, released two solo albums during the time between Deacon Blue's breakup in 1994 and reformation in 1999. Due to Deacon Blue's part-time status after reformation, Ross released additional solo albums in 2002 and 2005 and has written for and with other recording artists. In 2009, Ross and McIntosh recorded an album together under the name 'McIntosh Ross'.

2012–2018: New record label and subsequent releases

In 2012, it was announced Deacon Blue had new management, Paul Loasby and Tom O'Rourke, and had signed a recording contract and would release a new album that year.
To promote the upcoming release of their new album, the group released a single, "The Hipsters×The Hipsters24 September 2012 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Here I Am in London Town3:002The Hipsters3:193Stars3:424Turn3:195The Rest3:376The Outsiders4:057That’s What We Can Do3:538She’ll Understand3:389Laura From Memory3:2510It’ll End in Tears3:2911Is There No Way Back to You4:24". The single was released in the United Kingdom on 23 September 2012. The album The Hipsters was released on 24 September 2012 and was produced by Paul Savage. A 25th anniversary tour, starting in October 2012, followed. The band performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Grand Hall in Glasgow to promote the release of the album. All of the band's studio albums were reissued as deluxe editions by Edsel Records in October 2012, as well as a new compilation entitled The Rest×The Rest29 October 2012 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 29 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11I’ll Never Fall in Love Again2:492Look of Love3:383Are You There (With Another Girl)3:244Message to Michael4:005I Was Right and You Were Wrong4:516Bound to Love4:267Still in the Mood4:028Fergus Sings the Blues (live)4:059Loaded (live)3:4410Chocolate Girl (live)6:2311Beautiful Stranger3:5512Waves of Sorrow (Piano and vocal version)3:2613Bethlehem’s Gate (Piano and vocal version)3:3414I Was Right and You Were Wrong (extended version)5:3515Mexico Rain4:0416Goin’ Back (live)3:2517Wages Day (Piano version)3:20Disc 21Love Hurts4:252Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain5:143Christmas and Glasgow5:134When You Are Young3:505Plastic Shoes3:416All I Want4:457Walking Back Home5:018Bigger Than Dynamite3:289Haunted4:1810The One About Loneliness4:0011Deportee (live)6:2812Wild Horses (live)5:34. Deacon Blue arranged dates in 2014 for a comeback tour. It was announced in April 2014 that their seventh studio album, A New House×A New House8 September 2014 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Bethlehem Begins4:082For John Muir3:083A New House3:324An Ocean3:195The Living3:536I Wish I Was a Girl Like You3:357Win3:198Wild3:059March3:2110Our New Land3:5811I Remember Every Single Kiss4:15, would be released on 8 September that year. Deacon Blue also performed at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony on 3 August 2014, performing their hit, "Dignity×DignityMarch 1987 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Dignity4:152Suffering2:433Just Like Boys3:144Shifting Sand3:18".
A new studio album, Believers×Believers30 September 2016 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1The Believers3:382This Is a Love Song4:033I Will and I Won’t3:474Meteors3:035Gone3:376What I Left Out3:197A Boy3:148Birds5:569You Can’t Know Everything3:3910Delivery Man4:2511Come Awake3:5212B Boy1:47, was released on 30 September 2016. Three promo singles, the title track, "This Is A Love Song" and "Gone" have been released. A tour was undertaken to promote the album, culminating in a return to the Glasgow Barrowlands on 4 December 2016, which was recorded for a live album as well as video. This was released on 31 March 2017 on vinyl, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray as well as digital download of both audio and video versions. A special screening event was held, the day before, at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
Between February and March 2018, Deacon Blue embarked on a tour of Spain, marking the first time that the band has played a series of live shows in Spain. The band described the shows as "an incredible experience for us all", and later confirmed that Deacon Blue will be returning to Spain in 2019 for another series of live shows, stating that "Spain has a very special place in our hearts".

2018–2025: City of Love and Riding on the Tide of Love

The band released their ninth studio album entitled City of Love×City of Love6 March 2020 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1City of Love4:122Hit Me Where It Hurts3:133Weight of the World3:394Take Me3:545In Our Room4:106Intervals3:367Keeping My Faith Alive3:108A Walk in the Woods3:579Come on In3:2710Wonderful3:3611On Love7:11 on 6 March 2020, to critical acclaim. The album received positive reviews and achieved commercial success. The album charted at number one in their native Scotland, number four in the United Kingdom and peaked at number fifty in Spain.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the band recorded and released their tenth studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love×Riding on the Tide of Love5 February 2021 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 8 tracks1Riding on the Tide of Love3:542She Loved the Snow3:373Nothing’s Changed3:174Look Up4:035Time4:356Send a Note Out3:237Not Gonna Be That Girl4:438It’s Still Early3:01 which was released in February 2021. The album failed to reach the same level of commercial success in the United Kingdom that the band experienced with their previous album, City of Love, with the album debuting at number 23 on the UK Albums Chart. In their native Scotland, the album performed better, debuting at number two and spending additional weeks within the Scottish Top 40 albums charts.
To promote the release of the album, the band announced the Riding on the Tide of Love tour which is scheduled to begin in June 2021 in Brighton and concludes on 19 December 2021 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. In September 2023, they released the compilation album All The Old 45s – The Very Best of Deacon Blue×The Very Best of Deacon Blue5 November 2001 · Album · CompilationSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 36 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Dignity4:022When Will You Make My Telephone Ring4:213Chocolate Girl3:174Raintown3:575The Very Thing3:346Loves Great Fears3:427He Looks Like Spencer Tracy Now3:518Loaded4:319Real Gone Kid4:0510Wages Day3:1111Fergus Sings the Blues4:0012Love and Regret5:0213Queen of the New Year3:3714Circus Lights5:0115My America4:1216Long Window to Love3:1417Orphans3:3518I’ll Never Fall in Love Again2:4719Your Swaying Arms4:14Disc 21Twist and Shout3:382Cover From the Sky3:393The Day That Jackie Jumped the Jail3:474A Brighter Star Than You Will Shine4:405The Wildness5:496Your Town5:247Will We Be Lovers3:588Only Tender Love5:129I Was Right and You Were Wrong4:5210Indigo Sky2:4911Bethlehem’s Gate4:4812Bound to Love4:2413Still in the Mood4:0214Jesus Do Your Hand’s Still Feel the Rain5:1415Rae4:5216Homesick4:1617When You Were a Boy You Were a Beautiful Boy4:16 via Cooking Vinyl. It debuted at number two on the official Scottish Albums Chart on 8 September, behind Back To The Water Below by Royal Blood. It went to spend eight weeks within the Top 100 of the Scottish Albums Chart. In the United Kingdom, it was a moderate success, debuting at number 42 on the UK Albums Chart, spending one week within the Top 100. The band embarked on a tour of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, beginning in September 2023, to promote the release of All the Old 45s.

2025–present: The Great Western Road and arena tour

The band's eleventh studio album, The Great Western Road×The Great Western Road21 March 2025 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1The Great Western Road4:492Late ’884:103People Come First3:464Wait on Me3:305Ashore3:566Underneath the Stars4:107Up Hope2:578Turn Up Your Radio!3:419How We Remember It4:0310Mid Century Modern4:1511Curve of the Line4:3912If I Lived on My Own2:48, is scheduled to be released on 21 March 2025. During the same month, they are set to embark on an arena tour across the United Kingdom and Ireland which includes their first date at the Wembley Arena in London since 1990. The tour will conclude with two shows at the OVO Hydro in their native Glasgow. The album is said to be a reflection of the band's journey since they first began performing during the 1980s, with lead single "Late 88" being said to be a "fondly reminder of the care-free excitement of those early days" for the band. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios.
In June 2025, it was announced that founding member James Prime had died following a "short struggle with cancer".

Current

Ricky Ross – lead vocals, piano
Lorraine McIntosh – backing and lead vocals, percussion
Dougie Vipond – drums, percussion
Gregor Philp – guitar
Lewis Gordon – bass
Brian McAlpine - keyboards, piano

Past

Original members

James Prime – keyboards, piano (died June 2025)
Graeme Kelling – guitar (died June 2004)
Ewen Vernal – bass, keyboard bass
Other past members

Mick Slaven – guitar
Scott Fraser – bass
Taj Wyzgowski – guitar
Ged Grimes – bass
Chris Henderson - drums