Music Maps Podcast13 Joulu 2025

94 - Del Amitri with Justin Currie (Glasgow)

This week we welcome Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie to talk us through the history of the band - starting in Glasgow in the early 1980s following in the footsteps of the success of the Sound Of Young Scotland on Postcard Records.

She bands first releases appear to significant fanfare after Melody Maker featured the band on the cover before they’ve released anything - bit their debut on Chrysalis proves to be a false start.

4 years pass before their 2nd album Waking Hours appears on A&M in 1989 featuring their breakthrough single Nothing Ever Happens.

Always The Last To Know becomes another hit & 1995’s Roll To Me breaks the top 10 in America.

In 1998 Del Amitri make the official World Cup song for the Scotland national team after they quality for the World Cup.

The bands go on hiatus in the early 2000’s but make a triumphant return in 2014 at the Hydro in Glasgow & have continued to tour periodically since & a new album came in 2021.

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