Del Amitri are a Scottish rock band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. They split in 2002 and reunited in 2013. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after a teenaged Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him. The band was formed with the original line-up of Currie (bass and vocals), Iain Harvie (lead guitar), Bryan Tolland (guitar) and Paul Tyagi (drums).
Links To Peel[]
In an interview with Song Writing magazine in 2014, singer Justin Currie mentioned how the band got its breakthrough with the help of John Peel:
"Friends of ours started an indie label and put out our first 7” single in ’83. We got Single Of The Week in Sounds and from that we got offered a session with John Peel in ‘84. He saw us live and really liked us, and from that we got a record deal later that year, so it was all pretty fortuitous. We got some money so it meant I could leave my job as a chef and that was us up and running." [1]
Sessions[]
1. Recorded: 1984-03-31. Broadcast: 24 April 1984. Repeated: 14 May 1984.
- Heard Through A Wall / Crows In The Wheat Field / Breaking Bread / Deceive Yourself (In Ignorant Heaven)
2. Recorded: 1985-03-19. Broadcast: 27 March 1985. Repeated: 30 April 1985, 18 December 1985.
- Hammering Heart / Ceasefire / This King Is Poor / Keepers
Other Shows Played[]
DEL AMITRI
- 1983
- 06 July 1983: Sense Sickness (7") NoStrings
- 1985
- 22 May 1985: 'Hammering Heart (7")' (Chrysalis)
- 22 July 1985: Sticks And Stones Girl (7") Chrysalis
- 30 September 1985: Hammering Heart (7") Chrysalis
- 30 September 1985 (BBC World Service): Hammering Heart (LP - Del Amitri) Chrysalis
- 29 October 1985: Hammering Heart (7") Chrysalis
- Others
- Peely - Short Commercial Break 84 & 82: Heard Through A Wall (session)
- U.K. Buzz: Sticks And Stones Girl
- John Peel's Scottish Sessions: Crows In The Wheat Field (session)