“The A to Z of Us”
Including a date at Bournemouth O2 Academy
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 and a string of memorable hit singles. Their million selling breakthrough album ëWaking Hoursí (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 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,î says guitarist Iain Harvie, ìour standard response was ëWe 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 UK TOUR 2014 – The A to Z of Us
January
Wed 22nd Dublin, Vicar Street
Fri 24th Glasgow, The SSE Hydro
Sun 26th Newcastle, City Hall
Mon 27th Leeds, O2 Academy
Tue 28th Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Thu 30th Bournemouth, O2 Academy
Fri 31st Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
February
Sat 1st Manchester, O2 Apollo
Sun 2nd Liverpool, Empire
Tue 4th Bristol, Colston Hall
Wed 5th Oxford, New Theatre
Thu 6th Wolverhampton, Wolves Civic
Fri 7th London, Hammersmith Apollo
Band Links
http://www.delamitri.org
http://www.facebook.com/DelAmitriOfficial
http://www.youtube.com/user/DelAmitriVEVO/videos
Picture By Del Sheenan.
