Nothing Ever Happens

Currie wrote it, and it is the last track of the album at 3:53. Wikipedia dates the single to January 1, 1990 and the album article to December 1989; it entered the UK chart on January 13, 1990, reached 11 and spent nine weeks there, and reached 4 in Ireland. Currie told Songwriting Magazine it is a song about political apathy, written in one sitting around 2 a.m. in a first-floor flat above a chip shop in Glasgow, a list song against Thatcher-era politics and a resigned mourning of the absence of protest; he hates songs that lecture you. He had the title for at least two years, and the manager Barbara Shores said that's a hit. Another account has it written in a shared London flat, so we leave the place open. The demo was acoustic guitar and voice only. Blair Cowan brought the accordion and Slaven added mandolin.

Michael Geoghegan directed the video in 1989. Setlist.fm lists the title 132 times across 15 artists, 89 of them by Del Amitri, and the first recorded Del Amitri performance was on January 25, 1990 for NOB radio in Hilversum; in 2024 it was the most common main-set closer. We found no covers or samples.