Oh, what a night. I’m not as much of a concert-goer as I ought to be. And I’m not a fan of stadium gigs. But there are some opportunities you just can’t turn down. And seeing Deacon Blue at Edinburgh Castle is definitely one of them.
I’ve only been to one concert there before. In a series perhaps ill-advisedly named Summer Nights back in 2004, I went to see James Taylor. Warm and sultry it wasn’t but JT more than made up for it. And at least it was dry.
So it was with a little trepidation that I watched the weather forecast unfold last week. Increasingly there seemed to be no avoiding the fact that making Raintown the centrepiece of the gig was more than a tad prescient.