Del Amitri will release new live film ‘Every Night Has a Dawn’ on 14th December 2022.
The film will be available on Blu-ray with a digital release to follow. You can pre-order it now.
‘Every Night Has a Dawn’ captures the band’s show at the Glasgow Barrowland on 11th June this year. The show features a career-spanning set of classic Del Amitri hits and all-time fan favourites interspersed with cuts from their latest album ‘Fatal Mistakes’.
The band’s tight performance and crisp mix are complemented by a visual flair from director Stuart Alexander, which goes against the grain of the current trend for glossy, ultra HD live footage. With the band and director alike eager to present a visual aesthetic rich with character and individuality, Alexander spent three months experimenting with a variety of analogue equipment and vintage lenses to capture Del Amitri and the storied Barrowland in their full majesty.
The release is completed by the ‘Acoustic Sessions’, a performance which was filmed at frontman Justin Currie’s home studio in Glasgow this summer. It includes three brand new songs in the shape of ‘Every Night Has A Dawn’, ‘Edinburgh My Brother’ and ‘Friendship’, as well as a performance of ‘Drowned On Dry Land’, which has only previously been officially released as part of the long out of print live video ‘No Better Location’.
Del Amitri commented, “This summer of ’22, when the Queen of England still ruled Britannia and the country languished in the glow radiating from the hair of its erstwhile Prime Minister, Del Amitri finally got to play their beloved hometown hall, the Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom, after years of delay caused by a plague of all the talents. We thought it best to film this event, lest we get locked up or laid flat again, never to return.
The famous room was filled that night with cameras and the famous Barrowland congregation (and also Stuart Alexander, a director certainly destined for fame), and consequently all this activity has been chopped into a film that represents where we are now.
We added an acoustic session, featuring tunes old and brand new (filmed at the singer’s vast mansion) to leaven the rock with a little cheese roll. We call this thing ‘Every Night Has A Dawn’.”
Del Amitri will launch ‘Every Night Has a Dawn’ with a premiere screening and band Q&A at Glasgow Film Theatre on 12th December. Tickets are available exclusively from the band’s official store, and fans who order the bundle will be able to collect their Blu-ray at the launch event two days before its general release.
Del Amitri will begin 2023 with their first tour of Australia in thirty years, as well as their first ever shows in New Zealand.
‘Every Night Has A Dawn’ tracklist:
1. ‘When You Were Young’
2. ‘Musicians And Beer’
3. ‘All Hail Blind Love’
4. ‘Always The Last To Know’
5. ‘Not Where It’s At’
6. ‘Kiss This Thing Goodbye’
7. ‘Surface Of The Moon’
8. ‘Mockingbird, Copy Me Now’
9. ‘Driving With The Brakes On’
10. ‘Move Away Jimmy Blue’
11. ‘You Can’t Go Back’
12. ‘This Side Of The Morning’
13. ‘Here And Now’
14. ‘Tell Her This’
15. ‘Lonely’
16. ‘Spit In The Rain’
17. ‘Stone Cold Sober’
18. ‘Empty’
19. ‘Nothing Ever Happens’
20. ‘Be My Downfall’
‘Acoustic Session’ tracklist:
1. ‘Every Night Has A Dawn’
2. ‘It’s Never Too Late To Be Alone’
3. ‘All Hail Blind Love’
4. ‘Always The Last To Know’
5. ‘Drowned On Dry Land’
6. ‘I Won’t Take The Blame’
7. ‘Edinburgh My Brother’
8. ‘Stone Cold Sober’
9. ‘When You Were Young’
10. ‘Friendship’
11. ‘You Can’t Go Back’
