Del Amitri singer Justin Currie has said he is finding it “very hard” to play guitar now because of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The Scottish songwriter, 60, revealed his diagnosis with the ...

Del Amitri have confirmed that they have signed a new record deal with Cooking Vinyl. An official press release stated that the deal will see the band release a new studio album – their first since ...

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Del Amitri are a guitar-driven pop rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1980, internationally known for the 1995 melodic rock hit "Roll to Me". They came together at school as teenagers when ...

When Scottish rock band Del Amitri set out to tour America in 2023, its main songwriter and lead singer, Justin Currie, had just endured a devastating blow. And then another. And then another. In the ...

Scottish band Del Amitri released Fatal Mistakes, their first album in nearly two decades, earlier this year, which went Top 10 in the UK and to #2 in their home country. It finds the melodic chops ...

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In January 2022, Justin Currie, the singer with Scottish band Del Amitri, attended an appointment at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on the suspicion that he had Parkinson’s. There, the ...

It’s a tale that’s been told again and again throughout music history. A band or artist builds their reputation on one style of music. But they score their biggest ever hit with a song that’s somewhat ...

THIS LAST DECADE HAS lowered the boom on melodies in music. As rhythmic thrusts and production tricks came to redefine the pop hook, the sheer length of tunes started to shrivel. Even R. E. M., the ...

Solid rock `n` roll exposition, complete with that touch of R & B authenticity, has a long and happy history, from, oh, say, the Rolling Stones to, oh, say, the Georgia Satellites. While not nearly so ...