NEWS
Del Amitri tour dates
27 January 2018
Del Amitri have announced two very special hometown shows to conclude their 2018 tour, with the celebrated Scottish five-piece due to play Glasgow Barrowlands for the first time since 2002 on July 28th & 29th.
“In 1990, after eight years of slogging to build a Glasgow following, Del Amitri played Barralands for the first time,” says frontman Justin Currie. “It was as if everybody had turned up all at once. We’d never heard noise like it, never seen every hand raised and clapping on the snare beat, never been so overwhelmed by a crowd. It was the confirmation of our arrival in our own hometown. We did Barralands on every UK tour from then on. We did multiple nights, had Santa descend from the roof, covered Thin Lizzy and finally the Sex Pistols in the dark as we bowed out in 2002. We missed it madly on the reunion tour of 2014. We’re overjoyed to be able to announce our return to the greatest rock venue in the world.”
The tour will feature original band members - Justin Currie (vocals, guitar), Iain Harvie (lead guitar), Andy Alston (keys), Kris Dollimore (guitar) and Ashley Soan (drums) – and will see Del Amitri headline Edinburgh Castle for the first time in 25 years. The band will also return to London’s Hammersmith Apollo, where they played a sold-out show in January 2014 on ‘The A To Z of Us Tour’, their first UK dates for more than a decade.
DEL AMITRI UK TOUR 2018
July 20 Newcastle City Hall tickets
July 21 Edinburgh Castle tickets
July 22 Manchester Apollo tickets
July 23 Birmingham Symphony Hall tickets
July 25 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall tickets
July 26 London Hammersmith Apollo tickets
July 28 Glasgow Barrowlands
July 29 Glasgow Barrowlands
“In 1990, after eight years of slogging to build a Glasgow following, Del Amitri played Barralands for the first time,” says frontman Justin Currie. “It was as if everybody had turned up all at once. We’d never heard noise like it, never seen every hand raised and clapping on the snare beat, never been so overwhelmed by a crowd. It was the confirmation of our arrival in our own hometown. We did Barralands on every UK tour from then on. We did multiple nights, had Santa descend from the roof, covered Thin Lizzy and finally the Sex Pistols in the dark as we bowed out in 2002. We missed it madly on the reunion tour of 2014. We’re overjoyed to be able to announce our return to the greatest rock venue in the world.”
DEL AMITRI UK TOUR 2018
July 20 Newcastle City Hall tickets
July 21 Edinburgh Castle tickets
July 22 Manchester Apollo tickets
July 23 Birmingham Symphony Hall tickets
July 25 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall tickets
July 26 London Hammersmith Apollo tickets
July 29 Glasgow Barrowlands
