Unable to read music, early Del tracks were arranged and remembered according to 'bits' named after musical influences that included from Genesis, Captain Beefheart and Orange Juice. The first recorded Del Amitri track "What she Calls it" was the B side of a flexi-disc given away free with Stand and Deliver fanzine - the A side was given to another future Glasgow megaband The Bluebells. At this time Paul Tyagi (drums) joined the band as its first drummer. Postcard Record signing and future megastars Aztec Camera rehearsed in the room next door. Later on the band secured official rehearsal space at the Art Centre in a proper room with a cupboard to keep their gear in. Early Del Amitri did not want to be classified and their existence was kept secret from the rest of the school.Įarly rehearsals in Justin's parents house were followed by a move to secret rehearsal space behind some storage cartons in the basement of Glasgow Art Centre (now defunct). The name was chosen deliberately because it didn't mean anything but sounded a bit like someone's name. They came together at school as teenagers when Justin Currie (bass and vocals), James Scobbie (guitar and vocals) and Donald Bentley (guitar) formed a band in reaction against the rest of the 'rockers' in the school. Repeated: 30 April 1985, 18 December 1985.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". Heard Through A Wall / Crows In The Wheat Field / Breaking Bread / Deceive Yourself (In Ignorant Heaven)Ģ.We got some money so it meant I could leave my job as a chef and that was us up and running." Sessionsġ. 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 Single Of The Week in Sounds and from that we got offered a session with John Peel in ‘84. "Friends of ours started an indie label and put out our first 7” single in ’83. 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:
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