Lorraine McIntosh
Encyclopedia
Lorraine McIntosh is the female vocalist, with the Scottish
pop band, Deacon Blue
, and is married to lead singer Ricky Ross
. They have three children. She has also achieved success as an actress, starring in River City
and Taggart
which are among her most notable roles in television.
song "Deacon Blues
". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross
and Lorraine McIntosh
, keyboard player James Prime
and drummer Dougie Vipond
.
The band released their debut album, Raintown
on May 1, 1987 in the United Kingdom
, it was released in the United States
in February 1988. The album, widely praised as Deacon Blue's finest work, has the overtones of a concept album
relating to the struggles of getting by in life in the inner city
of urban life - the city being unmistakably Glasgow
, referenced by the roots of the band and by the famous images on the cover of the album, the view of a rainy day over Glasgow's West End (with the Finnieston Crane
featuring prominently) and, on the rear, a long-exposure
capture of the Kingston Bridge
blasting through the city centre at night. Their second studio album, When The World Knows Your Name
(1989) topped the UK Album Charts for two weeks, and included "Real Gone Kid
" which became their first UK top ten single.
Deacon Blue released their fourth album , Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
in 1993. Following Vipond's decision to quit the group in favour of a career in television, they split up in 1994. Five years later, the band held a reunion gig , and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home
, with the band now working on a part-time basis. The band released another album, Homesick
, in 2001. Though Graeme Kelling died from pancreatic cancer
in 2004, the band has continued in his absence and 2006 saw Deacon Blue returning to the studio to record three new tracks for a Singles
album - including the track "Bigger than Dynamite
". Deacon Blue are confirmed to be recording new material for a 2011 or 2012 release.
to play the character Alice Henderson for a few years in the popular Scottish soap opera
, River City
, which is set in a fictitious suburb
of Glasgow. Her character was written out during May 2010.
McIntosh has also appeared in a number of Scottish
film
s, including Ken Loach
's My Name Is Joe
, and Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
, as well as three episodes of the popular TV
drama series, Taggart
. She also starred in BBC One
's comedy drama Hope Springs
.
for the UK
funk
/dance
band
, Jamiroquai
.
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
pop band, Deacon Blue
Deacon Blue
Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band formed in Glasgow during 1985. Their name was taken from the title of the Steely Dan song "Deacon Blues". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond....
, and is married to lead singer Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross (musician)
Ricky Ross, born Richard Alexander Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter and broadcaster, most famously for his work with the rock band, Deacon Blue.-Biography:...
. They have three children. She has also achieved success as an actress, starring in River City
River City
River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...
and Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
which are among her most notable roles in television.
Deacon Blue and achieving fame
Their name was taken from the title of the Steely DanSteely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
song "Deacon Blues
Deacon Blues
"Deacon Blues" is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja.The song contains the lines:In a 1994 AOL chat interview with Becker, someone asked him about the inspiration for "Deacon Blues"...
". The band consists of vocalist Ricky Ross
Ricky Ross (musician)
Ricky Ross, born Richard Alexander Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter and broadcaster, most famously for his work with the rock band, Deacon Blue.-Biography:...
and Lorraine McIntosh
Lorraine McIntosh
Lorraine McIntosh is the female vocalist, with the Scottish pop band, Deacon Blue, and is married to lead singer Ricky Ross. They have three children...
, keyboard player James Prime
James Prime
James "Optimus" Prime is best known as the keyboard player for Deacon Blue. He also lectures at the University of the West of Scotland. Known as a Hammond/piano player, his talents have been sought after by John Martyn, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Cunningham, Eddi Reader and Little Richard...
and drummer Dougie Vipond
Dougie Vipond
Dougie Vipond is a Scottish musician and television personality. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1985. He was one of the founding members of Scottish soft rock / pop band, Deacon Blue.Dougie Vipond is one of the busiest and most versatile broadcasters in...
.
The band released their debut album, Raintown
Raintown
Raintown is the debut album of Scottish pop band Deacon Blue. The album, written largely by lead singer Ricky Ross, was released in the United Kingdom on May 1, 1987...
on May 1, 1987 in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, it was released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in February 1988. The album, widely praised as Deacon Blue's finest work, has the overtones of a concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
relating to the struggles of getting by in life in the inner city
Inner city
The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term is often applied to the lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas...
of urban life - the city being unmistakably Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, referenced by the roots of the band and by the famous images on the cover of the album, the view of a rainy day over Glasgow's West End (with the Finnieston Crane
Finnieston Crane
The Finnieston Crane is a crane and landmark in Glasgow, Scotland. It is now disused but is retained as a symbol of the city's engineering heritage.- History :...
featuring prominently) and, on the rear, a long-exposure
Exposure (photography)
In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value and scene luminance over a specified area.In photographic jargon, an exposure...
capture of the Kingston Bridge
Kingston Bridge, Glasgow
The Kingston Bridge is a balanced cantilever dual-span ten lane road bridge made of triple-cell segmented prestressed concrete box girders crossing the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The largest urban bridge in the United Kingdom, it carries the M8 motorway through the city centre...
blasting through the city centre at night. Their second studio album, When The World Knows Your Name
When the World Knows Your Name
When The World Knows Your Name is the second album from the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It was released in 1989 and attained the number 1 chart position in the United Kingdom....
(1989) topped the UK Album Charts for two weeks, and included "Real Gone Kid
Real Gone Kid
"Real Gone Kid" is a song by the Scottish rock/pop band Deacon Blue. Rleased in 1988, it was the first single to from the band's second album When the World Knows Your Name which was released six months later. The single was the band's first top ten hit, reaching #8 in the UK Singles Chart...
" which became their first UK top ten single.
Deacon Blue released their fourth album , Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Whatever You Say, Say Nothing is the fourth studio album from Deacon Blue. 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...
in 1993. Following Vipond's decision to quit the group in favour of a career in television, they split up in 1994. Five years later, the band held a reunion gig , and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home
Walking Back Home
Walking Back Home combines eight songs that were brand new compositions, previously unreleased tracks, or released only with limited availability, with nine previously released Deacon Blue songs. In this sense, it is not purely a studio album nor a typical compilation album...
, with the band now working on a part-time basis. The band released another album, Homesick
Homesick (Deacon Blue album)
Homesick is a studio album from the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue.A promotional CD was made available to readers of The Daily Telegraph via a voucher appearing in the newspaper two weeks before the album release date...
, in 2001. Though Graeme Kelling died from pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
in 2004, the band has continued in his absence and 2006 saw Deacon Blue returning to the studio to record three new tracks for a Singles
Singles (Deacon Blue album)
Singles is a singles compilation by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It contains three new tracks, "Bigger than Dynamite", "Haunted", and "The One About Loneliness", that were recorded by the band in March, 2006.-Track listing:...
album - including the track "Bigger than Dynamite
Bigger Than Dynamite
"Bigger than Dynamite" is the only single released from Deacon Blue's compilation album Singles.The B-sides are covers of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee Song" and the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses", performed live.- Track listing :...
". Deacon Blue are confirmed to be recording new material for a 2011 or 2012 release.
Break from music and River City
McIntosh took a break from musicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
to play the character Alice Henderson for a few years in the popular Scottish soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
, River City
River City (TV series)
River City is a Scottish television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow...
, which is set in a fictitious suburb
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
of Glasgow. Her character was written out during May 2010.
McIntosh has also appeared in a number of Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s, including Ken Loach
Ken Loach
Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
's My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...
, and Lone Scherfig's Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a Danish-Scottish film from 2002. Harbour and his suicidal brother inherit their father's second hand bookstore in their native Glasgow. Their lives become entangled with Alice and her daughter Mary after the two visit the shop...
, as well as three episodes of the popular TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
drama series, Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
. She also starred in BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
's comedy drama Hope Springs
Hope Springs (TV Series)
Hope Springs is a British television comedy-drama series following the lives of four female ex-cons in hiding following a multimillion pound robbery. Produced by Shed Productions, the company behind Bad Girls, Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road, the 8-part series began airing on BBC One on 7 June...
.
Personal life
She is not the same Lorraine McIntosh who performs backing vocalsBacking vocalist
A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
for the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
/dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
band
Band (music)
In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
, Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai
Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Other Acid Jazz artists such as...
.
Discography
- RaintownRaintownRaintown is the debut album of Scottish pop band Deacon Blue. The album, written largely by lead singer Ricky Ross, was released in the United Kingdom on May 1, 1987...
(1987) - When The World Knows Your NameWhen the World Knows Your NameWhen The World Knows Your Name is the second album from the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It was released in 1989 and attained the number 1 chart position in the United Kingdom....
(1989) - Fellow HoodlumsFellow HoodlumsFellow Hoodlums is the third studio album by the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue.-Track listing:All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:# "James Joyce Soles" – 3:50# "Fellow Hoodlums" – 3:20# "Your Swaying Arms" – 4:10# "Cover from the Sky" – 3:34...
(1991) - Whatever You Say, Say NothingWhatever You Say, Say NothingWhatever You Say, Say Nothing is the fourth studio album from Deacon Blue. 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...
(1993) - Walking Back HomeWalking Back HomeWalking Back Home combines eight songs that were brand new compositions, previously unreleased tracks, or released only with limited availability, with nine previously released Deacon Blue songs. In this sense, it is not purely a studio album nor a typical compilation album...
(1999) - HomesickHomesick (Deacon Blue album)Homesick is a studio album from the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue.A promotional CD was made available to readers of The Daily Telegraph via a voucher appearing in the newspaper two weeks before the album release date...
(2001)