With a cast of original members and even the original crew, Del Amitri return from a ten year sabbatical to wheel out every hit from every era of their lengthy recording career. Justin Currie and Iain Harvie will once again be joined on stage by Andy Alston, Kris Dollimore and Ashley Soan.
It’s been thirty years since Del Amitri’s debut single, Sense Sickness”, their contribution to all things early 80s and jangly. “The A to Z of Us will take a retrospective sweep of our entire output, from indie art-pop through folk-tinged balladry to hairy Brit-rock chuggery”, says front man Justin Currie.
Formed in Glasgow in 1983, during their distinguished career Del Amitri had four Top 10 albums in the U.K. and a string of memorable hit singles. Their million selling breakthrough album Waking Hours (1989) included the hits Nothing Ever Happens and Kiss This Thing Goodbye.
The follow-up, 1992’s Change Everything, featured the massive radio single Always The Last To Know and reached No.2 in the albums chart, only being held off the top slot by the might of The Bodyguard soundtrack. 1995’s Twisted charted at No.3 in the U.K. and included their biggest ever single Roll To Me, which reached No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Del Amitri’s most recent album was 2002’s Can You Do Me Good?, and the band have been on hiatus since finishing the subsequent tour.
“Whenever anyone asked if Del Amitri would ever re-form,” says guitarist Iain Harvie, ” ur standard response was ‘We never broke up – the phone just stopped ringing.'”
It has started ringing now and Del Amitri are picking it up from where they left off.
Del Amitri U.K. Tour 2014 – The A to Z of Us:
- 01/22 – Dublin – Vicar Street
- 01/24 – Glasgow – The SSE Hydro, Celtic Connections
- 01/26 – Newcastle – City Hall
- 01/27 – Leeds – O2 Academy
- 01/28 – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
- 01/30 – Bournemouth – O2 Academy
- 01/31 – Nottingham – Royal Concert Hall
- 02/01 – Manchester – O2 Apollo
- 02/02 – Liverpool – Empire
- 02/04 – Bristol – Colston Hall
- 02/05 – Oxford – New Theatre
- 02/06 – Wolverhampton – Wolves Civic
- 02/07 – London – Hammersmith Apollo
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