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‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity

‘It’s become a sort of folk song. It’s played at weddings and funerals. Dundee United play it when we win. I’ve met people who’ve told me, “I was a worker for the council for 20 years” – just like the guy in the song’

However, at gigs I realised that people really related to it, so I picked out the bits that I felt the audience would want highlighting, to sing along with. We never do it at soundchecks except for once, at a gig in Glasgow after some council workers with shovels asked for it I sing more on Dignity live now than I do on the original record. Once, when we were soundchecking for a Hogmanay gig in Glasgow’s George Square, the ground was frozen and there were council workers with shovels working in front of the stage.

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