When five knives of differing lengths are tossed into a till. When the groan of the despondent greets the grin of the innane. When buckets of badges are thrown from a train in a wind so high that the trees get maimed. When the monkey is grinder and the organ is ground. When Eddie Cochran's donkey is mated with John Denver's ass. Sounds like when a fridge full of Heineken is thrown down a mine, when a lorry loaded with lightbulbs collides with a cat or a crockery laden table falls through the floor. When God coughs, or Steven Segal retches, when Susan Hayward sighs, when Johnny-Come-Lately squeals in surprise. When bears roar and bees hum, when books shut or lonely perverts come. When tyres scream and towers shiver, when castles creak, ducks quack, streets quake and mountains moan, when ice cracks and girders groan, when money riffles and sneakers shuffle, when sheets stretch and scouts shout, sounds like a million dogs in a box barking, four swans in a tin tapping, two girls in a lift laughing, one guy with a quiff grunting, the boot marching, the lecher lurching, the pole-dancer punching, the pipe-fitter fetching, the baby-sitter crying, the fish singing, the police ringing, a thousand trousers tearing, the voice of Moses airing, the drums of hell sounding, the pub opening, the shops closing, the clouds moving, the wind changing.
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Justin Currie was born in a van near Paisley in 1964 in a hailstorm so vicious that it took a team of panel beaters a month to separate his forehead from the roof. Later on, perhaps in the nineteen eighties he started to sing in a strange breathless way, cramming too many words into odd amounts of bars and found himself, with his group of twee schoolboy punks, Del Amitri, getting firmly up the collective nose of the Glasgow white-soul cognoscenti. Much more loathed than loved, and revelling in their outsider status, Del Amitri attracted a dense little coterie of followers in the United States of America who duly set up a nationwide tour funded by busking, badge selling and the refrigerators of those fans' generous parents. Driven half-mental by their experiences the group came home, ditched their indie twiddling and embarked upon a course of songwriting so sickeningly mainstream and Americanised that it led to a long career being spoilt stupid by the radio and recording industries of the English speaking world. Limos to the pub, ponds full of chips, week-long parties in Bognor, that sort of thing.
By 2002 the thing had run it's cliched course; the group's fortunes were dwindling and, dropped by a record firm grown weary of their whining, the two chief writers put the band into cryogenic suspension and set about writing two LPs; a Justin Currie Alone affair and an entirely co-written electronic pop masterpiece. Justin's solo record is called "What Is Love For?" and features eleven thunderously dreary dirges many of which he is currently airing live to pained looking crowds of people in dingy Glasgow basements. When forced by penury, politeness or acute fear he can sometimes also be heard to trawl out tired versions of his withered hits.
Justin is unmarried and lives a quiet life of standing up and sitting down in Scotland with his two pet television sets.
Is there any timescale for a new release, be it EP or album?
I'm sitten with the latter two of the youtube videos in particular and tracked down a song called 'Tonight I Want To Hurt Everyone I Love' which was fabulous.
What do you think of Snow Patrol J!? I think they sound "very" Del Amitri.... I think it's time you got the band back on the road...I saw you guys at the Mayfair Glasgow 1990 I think, and that band was brilliant! Del Amitri should be up there with the best touring recording and writing great pop/rock songs!!!
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Live At Abbey Road - I had to wade through 3 Bryan Adams songs, 3 sacks of wank by Ben Harpur..and then only got one song of yours O.o
Watched the Seattle concert on here afterwards and it's kept me up until the wee small hours, enjoying the tickle of Sprite on the last moments of Tonsillitis and utterly inspired and moved to get back on stage again myself soon, so thank you, Sir.
And then you played Sleep Instead of Teardrops and absolutely made my night.
Joanne Nooooooo!!! The only night in about 3 months I can't make!!! Looks really good/unusual too. have a great time - embarrass yourself all you want!!! Anne
i really love the album! what is love for, something in that mess and if i ever loved you are the best. i remember one of your del amitri gigs was the first (good) one i went to, i was about five and it made such an impression. the solo album and can you do me good are amazing. hope to get to a gig sometime soon! - sarah.
I don't know how or why, but I know that his Royal Currieness is playing my home town next month and I've got tickets!!!!!!! Wooooohoooooo!!!!! I'm highly likely to embarrass myself (again) but I just don't care.
Hullo there old chap, am greatly enjoying the new songs in particular 'No, surrender'. Thanks for the add and I hope you get round to playing in London sometime soon.
I bought your album ages ago, when you were in Nottingham, but the first time I saw it actually in a shop was on Saturday- and I felt like telling everyone in HMV.
Thank you for accepting, and thank you for your music.
Hi everybody, just here to say a big thanks for all your support. The new workshop is well and truly up and running and the custom cabs are now available to order. All the best, Stevie Flynn.
Thank you for adding me :) The string arrangement on No Surrender is beeeautiful!!! Wow! Love your songs and voice, was a big fan of Del Amitri too, easily one of the best scottish band EVER! You wrote so many great songs! Much respect and continued success Suzy xxx
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