Loving the show back on the road

Ricky Ross wrote some of the greatest 80s indie-pop songs, not least the life-affirming Dignity about a council worker dreaming of escaping his day-job by saving up to buy a dinghy and sailing away.

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Decades on, the exhilarating Late '88 captures the carefree excitement of the Scottish band's heyday.

It's a vibrant slice of soulful, string-embellished nostalgia celebrating a time when they "were running, never stopping", releasing platinum albums and writing hit after hit - like Real Gone Kid, with its unforgettable “whoo-whoo” chorus.