Activities Since High
Buchanan and Bell toured England and Scotland in May and June 2006, followed by Scotland and Ireland in November 2006, billed as 'Paul Buchanan sings the songs of The Blue Nile'. The band consisted of Buchanan on vocals and guitar; Bell on bass guitar and keyboards; Alan Cuthbertson and Brendan Smith on keyboards; Stuart McCredie on guitar; and Liam Bradley on drums. It was later revealed that Paul Joseph Moore was no longer with the band, and that Buchanan and Bell had refrained from simply billing themselves as The Blue Nile as a mark of respect for their former colleague.
On 14 July 2007, Buchanan and Bell played Manchester's Bridgewater Hall as part of the Manchester International Festival. Saturday Night.
In July 2008, the band played shows at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, London Somerset House and Galway Radisson Hotel.
In September 2010, a biography of The Blue Nile, by Allan Brown, (Nileism - the Strange Course of The Blue Nile) was published. The writer claims that the band for the time being to all intents and purposes has broken up, although Buchanan still hopes they will find a way to make a fifth and final album.
Paul Buchanan stated in a BBC interview in 2012 that he hadn't spoken to Paul Joseph Moore in several years, although he still keeps in touch with Robert Bell. Buchanan also involved Bell in the final stages of the making of his debut solo album Mid-Air, which was self-released on his own Newsroom Records in May 2012.
A 2CD limited edition of the band's first two albums was released in November 2012. It features the original album, remastered along with a bonus disc of rare and previously unreleased material selected by Paul Buchanan and Robert Bell, who oversaw the remastering with engineer Calum Malcolm.
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