YOU might argue that someone who recently declared their abiding love for Deacon Blue in this newspaper's pages would not be best placed to give an impartial critique of their live performance.
But you'd have to concede that if that same person had seen the group around 50 times since 1989, then they could at least offer a well-informed judgment, if not an entirely unbiased account, of the opening night of their 25th anniversary tour – which was, incidentally, brilliant.
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