The Scottish band The Blue Nile has enjoyed a mystique contrived by its inaccessibility and the infrequency of its recordings, but it has also made a series of critically acclaimed discs. The group was formed by three Glasgow natives who had graduated from university there: singer/songwriter/guitarist Paul Buchanan, bassist Robert Bell, and keyboardist Paul Joseph Moore. (Engineer Callum Malcolm and drummer Nigel Thomas have worked with the trio consistently, to the point of being considered secondary bandmembers.) The Blue Nile is the title of Alan Moorehead's 1962 sequel to The White Nile, the two books making up a history of the Nile River. They recorded their own single, "I Love This Life," which was distributed by Robert Stigwood's RSO Records just before the company closed its doors. They were then signed by Linn Products, which released their debut album, A Walk Across the Rooftops, in 1984.
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July 15, 2008
Radisson Hotel
Galway, Galway, IrelandJuly 13, 2008
Somerset House
London, England, United Kingdom1. A Walk Across the Rooftops
2. Heatwave
3. Over the Hillside
4. Saturday Night
5. She Saw the World
6. Stay
7. From a Late Night Train
8. Easter Parade
9. Happiness
10. The Downtown Lights
11. I Would Never
12. Runaround Girl
13. Family Life
14. Stay Close
15. Sentimental Man
16. Tinseltown in the Rain
1. Headlights on the Parade
2. Strangers in the Night(Bert Kaempfert cover)
3. Tinseltown in the Rain
July 11, 2008
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomIncomplete setlist
1. Stay
July 10, 2008
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomIncomplete setlist, out of order
1. I Would Never
2. Stay
3. Family Life
July 9, 2008
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomIncomplete setlist
1. Tinseltown in the Rain
October 28, 2007
Vicar Street
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandIncomplete setlist, out of order
1. Over the Hillside
2. Tinseltown in the Rain
3. Because of Toledo
4. Stay
October 27, 2007
Grand Opera House
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United KingdomJuly 14, 2007
The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester, England, United KingdomIncomplete setlist, out of order
1. Tinseltown in the Rain
2. Headlights on the Parade
3. Over the Hillside
4. The Downtown Lights
November 22, 2006
Vicar Street
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland1. Over the Hillside
2. Happiness
3. She Saw the World
4. I Would Never
5. Because of Toledo
6. Heatwave
7. Saturday Night
8. Runaround Girl
9. A Walk Across the Rooftops
10. Tinseltown in the Rain
11. Easter Parade
12. Start Again
13. Meanwhile
14. Sentimental Man
15. The Downtown Lights
1. High
2. Strangers in the Night
3. Headlights on the Parade
November 21, 2006
Vicar Street
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandSeptember 3, 2006
Stradbally Hall
Stradbally, Laois, Ireland1. I Would Never
2. Happiness
3. Over the Hillside
4. Heatwave
5. She Saw the World
6. Because of Toledo
7. Saturday Night
8. Sentimental Man
9. Strangers in the Night
1. Easter Parade
June 2, 2006
Barbican Centre
London, England, United KingdomMarch 14, 2005
Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
Los Angeles, California, United States1. I Would Never
March 4, 2001
Olympia Theatre
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland1. Easter Parade
2. Tomorrow Morning
3. All the Way
July 1, 1997
Olympia Theatre
Dublin, Dublin, IrelandJune 29, 1997
Worthy Farm
Pilton, England, United Kingdom1. The Downtown Lights
2. Love Came Down
3. Tomorrow Morning
4. A Walk Across the Rooftops
5. Body and Soul
6. God Bless You Kid
7. Tinseltown in the Rain
8. Sentimental Man
9. Headlights on the Parade
June 28, 1997
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom1. Over the Hillside
2. The Downtown Lights
3. Sentimental Man
4. Happiness
5. Tomorrow Morning
6. A Walk Across the Rooftops
7. Body and Soul
8. Easter Parade
9. God Bless You Kid
10. Family Life
11. Tinseltown in the Rain
12. Headlights on the Parade
June 26, 1997
Royal Albert Hall
London, England, United Kingdom1. Over the Hillside
2. The Downtown Lights
3. Sentimental Man
4. Happiness
5. Tomorrow Morning
6. A Walk Across the Rooftops
7. Body and Soul
8. Easter Parade
9. Soon
10. God Bless You Kid
11. Let's Go Out Tonight
12. Tinseltown in the Rain
13. Family Life
1. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
June 23, 1997
King's Theatre
Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomNovember 9, 1996
Later With Jools Holland, BBC Television Centre
London, England, United Kingdom1. Tinseltown in the Rain
2. Body and Soul
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