Currie and Harvie open a service hatch on Del Amitri

Justin Currie and Iain Harvie have announced a run of intimate spoken-word nights for 2027 under the title *45 Years of Modest Failure: An Evening of Conversation with Justin Currie & Iain Harvie*. The shows are unscripted: storytelling, reflection on four decades of friendship and songwriting, and a live audience Q&A. Six nights in Scotland are already in place; the first is confirmed for the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock on Sunday 23 May 2027 at 7.30pm. An earlier date is at The Barn in Ringwood on Sunday 18 April 2027.

Currie framed the format after a recent run of book dates. “Having ventured into book tour world last year I was amazed by how enjoyable and heartwarming an evening of conversation with Del Amitri’s audience could be,” he said. “It felt like a release to be able to open up a little and have time to engage directly with people, if not breaking the fourth wall, then certainly installing a service hatch.”

From Glasgow stages to a quieter room

Del Amitri formed in Glasgow in 1980 and built a reputation as a Scottish alternative rock band whose singles travelled further than their early club gigs. “Nothing Ever Happens” reached No. 11 in the UK; the 1995 single “Roll to Me” became a top-ten hit in Canada and the United States. Seven studio albums followed, five of them landing in the UK top 10, with worldwide sales estimated at more than six million. The run on file stretches from the self-titled debut of 1985 through *Waking Hours* (1989), *Change Everything* (1992) and *Twisted* (1995), on to *Can You Do Me Good?* in 2002 and the later *Fatal Mistakes* in 2021. Outtakes and B-sides were collected the following year. Live documents and re?presentations of earlier records have kept the catalogue in circulation for a new generation of listeners.

Currie and Harvie have been the constants through that arc — the songwriting core and the public face of a group that has moved between full-band tours and quieter intervals without ever fully disappearing from the map. An evening stripped of the full line-up and the PA is a different proposition from the records that made their name, yet it sits in a clear line with how those records were written: two friends testing ideas in a room and then taking the results out to whoever would listen.

What still sits ahead of the conversation

What remains unannounced is the remaining Scottish dates, any English dates beyond Ringwood, and the practical detail of tickets and prices. For now the shape is clear enough. Currie and Harvie will step out without the rest of the group, open the service hatch, and let four decades of friendship and songwriting do the work of a set list.