Del Amitri

Nothing ever happens

Del Amitri formed in Glasgow in 1980. Justin Currie said in 2010 that the name was invented to be meaningless, a corruption of Dimitri, and in 2018 that it came from a film producer's credit on a 1979 film, probably Dimitri-something; the Greek from-the-womb meaning is untrue. They signed to Chrysalis in 1984 and released Del Amitri in 1985. Waking Hours (July 10, 1989, A&M, 45:49) was recorded from 1987 to 1989 at Park Lane in Glasgow, Great Linford Manor in Milton Keynes and Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, with Mark Freegard, Hugh Jones and Gil Norton producing. The line-up changed during it: Andy Alston joined, Mick Slaven and Paul Tyagi left, and David Cummings and Brian McDermott replaced them, though Slaven and Tyagi remain on the cover. It reached 6 in the UK and 95 in the US and went Platinum.

Change Everything (1992) reached 2 in the UK, kept from number 1 by Lionel Richie, and led to Late Night with David Letterman and Woodstock '94. Twisted (1995) reached 3 and "Roll to Me" was a US top 10, and Some Other Sucker's Parade (1997) reached 6; "Don't Come Home Too Soon" was the Scottish World Cup squad's anthem in 1998. Hatful of Rain, a best-of, reached 5, and Can You Do Me Good? (2002) preceded a hiatus. Currie made solo albums, beginning with What Is Love For. After Currie hinted at a reunion on BBC Radio 2 on August 18, 2013, they played the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on January 24, 2014 to about 8,000, eight UK dates in July 2018 and recorded Fatal Mistakes at Vada Studios in Worcestershire in 2020 to 2021; it was released on May 28, 2021 on Cooking Vinyl and reached 5 in the UK, Metacritic 82. The live album Every Night Has a Dawn was recorded at the Barrowland Ballroom on June 11, 2022, and they joined Simple Minds on tour in March 2024.