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Following the release of 2020?s City Of Love, the Deacon Blue's most successful album in 25 years, Ricky Ross releases his 8th solo album ?Short Stories Vol. 2? alongside an autobiography ?Walking Back Home?. The album was recorded at home, then augmented with sumptuous strings and brass, alongside contributions from his fellow Deacon Blue cohorts Lorraine McIntosh and Gregor Philp, and will be released on CD, vinyl and digitally on 19 August 2022 (Cooking Vinyl).

The album and book will be supported by a tour in September & October 2022 with Ricky at the piano, playing beautiful venues around the country, presenting songs from across his entire career and sharing stories from his autobiography. Ricky Ross said:

"I?ve always been interested in telling stories. Most of the stories have become songs but some stories take a little longer. A couple of years ago I started to write down some longer memories which didn?t fit as snugly into verses or choruses. I hope people might enjoy the stories as much as I have enjoyed writing them down."

In his memoir, Ross revisits his formative years growing up in Dundee, his early forays into music and the beginning, extraordinary success, fall-out, and re-emergence of Deacon Blue. Ross writes movingly and with great wit about the people and places that have meant the most to him, as well as his relationship with faith, politics, and the ever-changing challenges of being a musician.

A limited edition 12? coloured vinyl version of the album will be available to order alongside tickets for the tour and there will be an exclusive fan pre-sale for 24 hours before the general sale which starts at 9am on Friday 4 February.

Pre-order Ricky Ross?s autobiography ?Walking Back Home? here:
http://hyperurl.co/WalkingBackHomeHB

Pre-order Short Stories Vol. 2 and purchase tickets for his forthcoming tour here: https://rickyross.tmstor.es/

TICKETS £27.50 plus fees - no concessions.

TICKETS ON THE DOOR Will be £33 (but I expect this event to be sold out pretty quickly!)

SCHEDULE Doors 18.30 / Support 19.30 / Ricky 20.30  

GENERAL SEATING Emmanuel Church is theatre style with excellent views ?in the round? ? seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

HOW TO FIND US Emmanuel is a 10 minute walk from Billericay station (which is 25 mins from Liverpool Street). We are also only 5 mins off the A127 and about 10 mins off the A12. Postcode CM12 9LD.

CAR PARKING There is parking for about 70 cars on site ? additional parking can be found on the High Street and behind Iceland (which is only a 5 mins walk from Emmanuel).

BAR There will be a reasonably priced bar provided by my friends from Billericay Brewery (a local microbrewery) in the church hall. No drinks, apart from water, however, will be allowed in the church itself.

PLEASE NOTE This is a listening event!

PROCEEDS From this event will be given to charity, including the Purple Community Fund working in The Philippines. I spent three weeks there in July/August 2019 working alongside some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in Asia, many of whom live on the largest rubbish dump in the world.

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Laindon Road,

Billericay,

Essex,

England,

CM12 9LD.