February 1, 2023 • 9 mins
The Scottish frontman spoke to Clairsy & Lisa about Del Amitri's upcoming tour to Australia (the first in 30 years), why he finds it hard to order water in the US... and it seems kilts are just like... jeans?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dellamitry and making their long awaited return this summer for
their first Australian shows in thirty years, with two nights
at the ASTA Theater February fifteenth and sixteenth. Get your
tickets at ticket tech dot com. Dote you and joining
us now. Justin Curry from Dolomitry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning, good morning. Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You're making me feel old.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Host Australian shows in thirty years been a while making.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Us all feel old. What's changed in that time for you? Justin?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh, well, what hasn't changed? Really? The only thing that
steve the same as it were still a bond and
were still making records. I guess, but no, everything's changed.
I've got a nice host. No, I don't have a
nice break now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
There you go. There's nothing wrong with that. They your
fans in Australia have stuck by you all along. And
I was talking to a friend yesterday who didn't know
Lisa and I were talking to you, and as we
were talking, Joe goes, guess who I'm going to see
at the ASTA and she goes Scottish Band. I said, well, no,
Jim's not down, Jim Kurt, I went, wouldn't happen to
be Delamentary, would it? And she got so excited. So
(00:59):
she's given me a couple She's given me a couple
of questions. She reckons that nothing ever happens and be
my downfall. Two of the greatest songs ever written. And
if she was to go to any gig a choice
between ic DC, the Stones, Led Zeppelin and you guys,
she'd see Delementary every time. The loyal, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well that's very kind of do you know. I saw
ac DC for the first time about five years ago
and they completely blew me away and I got a
sun time while I was watching them. Was the only
time I've ever had a sun time up in the
high seats at Hampden Park in Glasgow, and the sun
just cut across the sky because the sun just hides
in the sky that time of year, in the middle
(01:35):
of the summer. So I watched ac DC and got
a suntime.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Very quid essentially Australian. It's very eusy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What's different about touring now, justin versus when you were
touring in your twenties and thirties even.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, there's a lot less to do now, which is great.
When we were in our twenties and thirties because we
were in the charts and we had a major record
company behind us, there was an awful lot of stuff
to do during the day, lots of things like this,
and lots of acoustic performances. So we don't really miss
that because it means we just concentrate on the gig,
and it also means we can wander around and explore
(02:14):
a bit during the day, which is that's been a
major improvement in our lives on tour, as if we
get time before the sound check just to wander around.
So that's that's been magic.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Did you have Yeah, the bends that came in the
generation before you have mentioned Jim Curly, it's Simple Minds
or Stewart Adamson with the Big Country and before that
the schemes were these influences on you, these.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Guys, Yeah, particularly Simple Minds and Orange Juice are the
kind of coins. Yeah. The Orange Orange Juice made Classgow
help and Simple Minds made Classgow internationally successful. And I
was a big fan of both bands when I was
at school and they just opened everything up here. They
opened up a whole infrastructure for for rock bands and
(02:55):
post punk bands and They just showed little guys like
us at school that you know, anybody could do it,
you know, if you could break out of this town
and make kind of make a name for yourself. So
that was a huge emphasis for us.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I feel like we can relate to that a bit
in Australia with Australian bands, you know, making it overseas,
especially twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, the new album.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
First album in nineteen years Fatal Mistakes. We're going to
see a mixture of classics and stuff from the new
album on the tour. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, do you know what, We don't usually do that
many new songs when you've got a new album. Maybe
we've ended up doing a bit at least sex from
this album and it doesn't They don't all just go
to the toilet at once, so it seems to be
working all right. That's good.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
They're not all at the snack bar.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's a fun way of working out which is the new
popular songs it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, Well maybe because we're doing so many they just
feel a bit road going to your bar. Yeah. I
mean our songs are quite short, so we play we
play a ton of stuff, you know, we don't miss
much out I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's called elementary to a go before you leave.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh hold on, our fans are getting on about they
did comfort breaks.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh yes, elementary. That depends.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We just have a little spell here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You and I have had an enduring relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Is there a secret to working for someone for so
long and maintaining that creativity?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah? I mean we're kind of like brothers. We don't
have We've both got sisters, but not brothers, And we
met through music, and then we've become kind of family
over the years, and we're more. I think we're more.
We're sort of friends first and band second now, whereas
back in nineteen eighty two and when we met it
was the other way around. So because we've been together
(04:48):
so long, we've just kind of grown into each other's
lives and they you know, our lives are very intertwined
in lots of ways.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, justin what's the moment for you when it's
all worthwhile and it's the most magnificent link to the fence?
Is it when you're doing a song like nothing ever
happens and I all know that the lot about Needle
returns to the start of the song and all sing along.
Black before is that the moment when I know the
lyrics and it means so much to them.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, certainly the first time that happened an incredible feeling,
And you don't I don't think we take that for granted.
But the things that are really magical, or when the
most unlikely people that you wouldn't think might have heard
your music will let cross the street and say really
nice things to you about about a song that they
heard on the radio or something. Stuff like that is
(05:34):
really big guiling and it just it just kind of
it just makes you think, God, you know, it's really
worth doing these things because that you know, that guy
crossed the street to say to me how moved he
was with something that we'd written. And that's just the
ultimate compliment. Really.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Speaking of compliments, I'm going to compliment now on your accent.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I love Scottish accent. I think the whole world loves
a Scottish accent. But is there anywhere in the world
where you've toured and you've done interviews and so on,
and they just did a particular loss to understand you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, I've got quite a soft accent because my mum speaks.
My mum speaks very posh. She was a colonial sort
of evacuee to Australia from Hong Kong, and she kind
of speaks a bit like not the Queen, but she
speaks a bit like a very posh actor. So Ian
is sometimes not understood, especially in some in some parts
(06:29):
of America, they just can't cope with him because Ian's
from a place called Disco Bride. Whi's got a bit
of a stronger accent than the Glasgow accent. But generally
I'm I'm I'm terribly well spoken.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, Americans couldn't understand our Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's just America.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I guess sometimes some Americans are a bad accent and
some Americans are good at accents.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, it's kind of a class it's kind of a
class thing. You know. Middle class white suburban nights are
rubbish with accent because they just they all kind of
have the same accent and they just tune out as
soon as you know, if you don't say bookstore, if
you say bookshop, they just want to saying. And if
you if you order water with a hard tea, never
(07:15):
you have to order water. Water, just water.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And probably the tape of the gratuity a day. Another
one from my friend job. She said, this refers back
to you getting sunburned. I say, they see, she said,
this is unfortunately just the first It looks like the
first gig on the tour, so you might not have
a ten to wear a kilt on stage or maybe
down at drag beach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah. Do you know what? I had the most brilliant
kilt which I did sometimes drag out were on stage,
which I bought in a second hand I bought saying
hand in a charity shop years ago. But I got
it out recently and it's been completely decimated by moths.
So and I'll never find a kilt that fitted as
well as that kilt. So the kilt is no more never.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's like farting the perfect pair of jeans, isn't it fading?
The perfect fishing?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Honestly, that kilt, it was twenty five and it vet
me like an absolute glove. And I've tried other kilts
on and for weddings and things and they're never the same.
So yeah, no more kilts.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This story is getting instead of than shaggy baying, what's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's my favorite book?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, justin before you got. We asked all of
the us on the show. But the last band merchandise
T shirt you wore and it can be your own
band if you like. You remember, I've.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Never worn band merchandise. I used to make my own
T shirts. I made my own fall a band called
The Fall Manchester and I had I wrote a a
bunch of the lyrics on the back and felt tip
pain and then my mum put it on a hot
wash and it all washed out. I was crestfallen. Yeah,
I was before I before I was a punk, I
(08:56):
was into really bad prog rock and I did have
a yes to shirts, but I think the last genuine
I wore was was yes. Yeah. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
The only people who have not come up with one
with Neil Finn from Crowded House and split In and
Tony Hadley only.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Wears but yes you're button uple, button down, but no
T shirts.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I can't imagine Neil Finn wearing a remote shirt.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, no, that's funny. But we're really looking forward to
saying the GIGSA.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Man absolutely gonna love the Asta Theater. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, really looking forward to it and looking forward to
getting back to Perth as well. That was the first
place we visited in nineteen ninety. I had a great
time in Perth.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And look forward to having you here Justin can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thank you, well, thanks guys, you too. Cheers.
Dellamitry and making their long awaited return this summer for
their first Australian shows in thirty years, with two nights
at the ASTA Theater February fifteenth and sixteenth. Get your
tickets at ticket tech dot com. Dote you and joining
us now. Justin Curry from Dolomitry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning, good morning. Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
You're making me feel old.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Host Australian shows in thirty years been a while making.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Us all feel old. What's changed in that time for you? Justin?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh, well, what hasn't changed? Really? The only thing that
steve the same as it were still a bond and
were still making records. I guess, but no, everything's changed.
I've got a nice host. No, I don't have a
nice break now.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
There you go. There's nothing wrong with that. They your
fans in Australia have stuck by you all along. And
I was talking to a friend yesterday who didn't know
Lisa and I were talking to you, and as we
were talking, Joe goes, guess who I'm going to see
at the ASTA and she goes Scottish Band. I said, well, no,
Jim's not down, Jim Kurt, I went, wouldn't happen to
be Delamentary, would it? And she got so excited. So
(00:59):
she's given me a couple She's given me a couple
of questions. She reckons that nothing ever happens and be
my downfall. Two of the greatest songs ever written. And
if she was to go to any gig a choice
between ic DC, the Stones, Led Zeppelin and you guys,
she'd see Delementary every time. The loyal, aren't they?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well that's very kind of do you know. I saw
ac DC for the first time about five years ago
and they completely blew me away and I got a
sun time while I was watching them. Was the only
time I've ever had a sun time up in the
high seats at Hampden Park in Glasgow, and the sun
just cut across the sky because the sun just hides
in the sky that time of year, in the middle
(01:35):
of the summer. So I watched ac DC and got
a suntime.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Very quid essentially Australian. It's very eusy.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
What's different about touring now, justin versus when you were
touring in your twenties and thirties even.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, there's a lot less to do now, which is great.
When we were in our twenties and thirties because we
were in the charts and we had a major record
company behind us, there was an awful lot of stuff
to do during the day, lots of things like this,
and lots of acoustic performances. So we don't really miss
that because it means we just concentrate on the gig,
and it also means we can wander around and explore
(02:14):
a bit during the day, which is that's been a
major improvement in our lives on tour, as if we
get time before the sound check just to wander around.
So that's that's been magic.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Did you have Yeah, the bends that came in the
generation before you have mentioned Jim Curly, it's Simple Minds
or Stewart Adamson with the Big Country and before that
the schemes were these influences on you, these.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Guys, Yeah, particularly Simple Minds and Orange Juice are the
kind of coins. Yeah. The Orange Orange Juice made Classgow
help and Simple Minds made Classgow internationally successful. And I
was a big fan of both bands when I was
at school and they just opened everything up here. They
opened up a whole infrastructure for for rock bands and
(02:55):
post punk bands and They just showed little guys like
us at school that you know, anybody could do it,
you know, if you could break out of this town
and make kind of make a name for yourself. So
that was a huge emphasis for us.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I feel like we can relate to that a bit
in Australia with Australian bands, you know, making it overseas,
especially twenty thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, the new album.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
First album in nineteen years Fatal Mistakes. We're going to
see a mixture of classics and stuff from the new
album on the tour. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, do you know what, We don't usually do that
many new songs when you've got a new album. Maybe
we've ended up doing a bit at least sex from
this album and it doesn't They don't all just go
to the toilet at once, so it seems to be
working all right. That's good.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
They're not all at the snack bar.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
That's a fun way of working out which is the new
popular songs it.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, Well maybe because we're doing so many they just
feel a bit road going to your bar. Yeah. I
mean our songs are quite short, so we play we
play a ton of stuff, you know, we don't miss
much out I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's called elementary to a go before you leave.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Oh hold on, our fans are getting on about they
did comfort breaks.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh yes, elementary. That depends.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We just have a little spell here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You and I have had an enduring relationship.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Is there a secret to working for someone for so
long and maintaining that creativity?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah? I mean we're kind of like brothers. We don't
have We've both got sisters, but not brothers, And we
met through music, and then we've become kind of family
over the years, and we're more. I think we're more.
We're sort of friends first and band second now, whereas
back in nineteen eighty two and when we met it
was the other way around. So because we've been together
(04:48):
so long, we've just kind of grown into each other's
lives and they you know, our lives are very intertwined
in lots of ways.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, justin what's the moment for you when it's
all worthwhile and it's the most magnificent link to the fence?
Is it when you're doing a song like nothing ever
happens and I all know that the lot about Needle
returns to the start of the song and all sing along.
Black before is that the moment when I know the
lyrics and it means so much to them.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, certainly the first time that happened an incredible feeling,
And you don't I don't think we take that for granted.
But the things that are really magical, or when the
most unlikely people that you wouldn't think might have heard
your music will let cross the street and say really
nice things to you about about a song that they
heard on the radio or something. Stuff like that is
(05:34):
really big guiling and it just it just kind of
it just makes you think, God, you know, it's really
worth doing these things because that you know, that guy
crossed the street to say to me how moved he
was with something that we'd written. And that's just the
ultimate compliment. Really.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Speaking of compliments, I'm going to compliment now on your accent.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I love Scottish accent. I think the whole world loves
a Scottish accent. But is there anywhere in the world
where you've toured and you've done interviews and so on,
and they just did a particular loss to understand you.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, I've got quite a soft accent because my mum speaks.
My mum speaks very posh. She was a colonial sort
of evacuee to Australia from Hong Kong, and she kind
of speaks a bit like not the Queen, but she
speaks a bit like a very posh actor. So Ian
is sometimes not understood, especially in some in some parts
(06:29):
of America, they just can't cope with him because Ian's
from a place called Disco Bride. Whi's got a bit
of a stronger accent than the Glasgow accent. But generally
I'm I'm I'm terribly well spoken.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, Americans couldn't understand our Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
That's just America.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I guess sometimes some Americans are a bad accent and
some Americans are good at accents.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, it's kind of a class it's kind of a
class thing. You know. Middle class white suburban nights are
rubbish with accent because they just they all kind of
have the same accent and they just tune out as
soon as you know, if you don't say bookstore, if
you say bookshop, they just want to saying. And if
you if you order water with a hard tea, never
(07:15):
you have to order water. Water, just water.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And probably the tape of the gratuity a day. Another
one from my friend job. She said, this refers back
to you getting sunburned. I say, they see, she said,
this is unfortunately just the first It looks like the
first gig on the tour, so you might not have
a ten to wear a kilt on stage or maybe
down at drag beach.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah. Do you know what? I had the most brilliant
kilt which I did sometimes drag out were on stage,
which I bought in a second hand I bought saying
hand in a charity shop years ago. But I got
it out recently and it's been completely decimated by moths.
So and I'll never find a kilt that fitted as
well as that kilt. So the kilt is no more never.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
It's like farting the perfect pair of jeans, isn't it fading?
The perfect fishing?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Honestly, that kilt, it was twenty five and it vet
me like an absolute glove. And I've tried other kilts
on and for weddings and things and they're never the same.
So yeah, no more kilts.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
This story is getting instead of than shaggy baying, what's
going on there?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
That's my favorite book?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, justin before you got. We asked all of
the us on the show. But the last band merchandise
T shirt you wore and it can be your own
band if you like. You remember, I've.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Never worn band merchandise. I used to make my own
T shirts. I made my own fall a band called
The Fall Manchester and I had I wrote a a
bunch of the lyrics on the back and felt tip
pain and then my mum put it on a hot
wash and it all washed out. I was crestfallen. Yeah,
I was before I before I was a punk, I
(08:56):
was into really bad prog rock and I did have
a yes to shirts, but I think the last genuine
I wore was was yes. Yeah. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
The only people who have not come up with one
with Neil Finn from Crowded House and split In and
Tony Hadley only.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Wears but yes you're button uple, button down, but no
T shirts.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I can't imagine Neil Finn wearing a remote shirt.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, no, that's funny. But we're really looking forward to
saying the GIGSA.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Man absolutely gonna love the Asta Theater. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, really looking forward to it and looking forward to
getting back to Perth as well. That was the first
place we visited in nineteen ninety. I had a great
time in Perth.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And look forward to having you here Justin can't wait.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thank you, well, thanks guys, you too. Cheers.
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