A dangerous liaison with Del Amitri

As producer of the Janice Forsyth Show, I was delighted to see Justin Currie had a cracking new solo album, "The Great War" and we invited him in for a couple of acoustic songs and a chat for this Saturday's programme (24th April).

Gone are the Del Amitri days, but he kindly performed, ably accompanied by guitarist Stuart Nisbet, a rendition of the Del Amitri hit "Tell Her This", which he revealed had done rather well for them in America.



I'll now hold my hands up and say in an earlier life I did release Del Amitri's first ever single "Sense Sickness" on my NoStrings Records label back in 1983, which was although critically acclaimed was a financial flop! The band did get noticed by Chrysalis Records who snapped them up and I never got to release a follow up, and my brief liaison with Del Amitri ended there.

I was asked to find a photo of Justin and Janice for the Radio Scotland website, but couldn't find a good copy of the jaunty one from a few years ago I have of Justin with Janice wearing his glasses, other than a scabby print (which I have scanned for you here)

but I did find a 1983 press photo I had taken for the original single release. I have to say I think Justin's rock n roll years haven't had too bad an effect - he's worn well don't you think?

Nick Low is the producer of the Janice Forsyth Show