Scottish rock veterans Del Amitri have announced Past to Present: Four Decades of Their Greatest Hits, an Australian and New Zealand run landing at Melbourne's Palais Theatre.
Del Amitri are returning to Australia in 2027 with a tour built entirely around the songs people actually shout back.
Past to Present: Four Decades of Their Greatest Hits rolls through February and March, with Del Amitri hitting the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on 26 February before pushing on to Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney and across the Tasman. It’s a career-spanning set drawing on everything from the band’s early indie years through to the run of chart singles that made them a fixture on radio in two hemispheres.
Del Amitri Past to Present: Four Decades of Their Greatest Hits
- 23 February – The Astor Theatre, Perth
- 25 February – The Gov, Adelaide
- 26 February – Palais Theatre, Melbourne
- 28 February – Odeon, Hobart
- 3 March – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
- 4 March – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
- 6 March – Meow Nui, Wellington
- 7 March – Powerstation, Auckland
Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around Melbourne here.
The band came together in Glasgow in 1982 around Justin Currie, with guitarist Iain Harvie becoming the other constant in a sound that’s stayed recognisable for four decades. Their 1989 album Waking Hours did the heavy lifting early on, carrying Nothing Ever Happens and the impossibly sticky Kiss This Thing Goodbye.
The early ’90s widened the net. Always the Last to Know found an audience well beyond the UK, and Roll to Me climbed to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the song that still turns up on jukeboxes in pubs nowhere near Scotland. Across seven studio albums the group has shifted more than six million records, built on wry lyrics and melodies that refuse to leave.
A hiatus through the 2000s wasn’t the end of it. Del Amitri came back to sold-out reunion shows, then broke an 18-year gap between new records with Fatal Mistakes in 2021. They’re currently in the studio again, working on a follow-up album.
Presale access opens 21 July at 9am local time, with general public tickets following on 23 July at 9am local. Sign-ups for the presale are running now.
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