Del Amitri 1995-04-09 WXRK-FM 92.3 Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight

 Del Amitri 1995/04/09  WXRK-FM 92.3 live on Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight radio show
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01. Food For Songs – live
02. Driving With The Brakes On – live
03. intro to song
04. Drowned On Dry Land – (unrecorded Del Amitri song)
05. Nothing Ever Happens
06. This Side Of The Morning

I know there are Del Amitri fans out there.  This is a terrific sounding session.  
(imo) the last tune is the highlight and a Best-Ever version.  


Re: Drowned On Dry Land – unrecorded song

In back-checking this session I came across a 2014 Justin Currie interview posted on the website
(http://popdose.com/justin-currie-interview-2014/)   
Written by Matt Wardlaw• September 12, 2014• Music, Popdose Interviews

the excerpt posted below is especially appropriate to this session.

(question by interviewer) Earlier this year, you told me that there’s no existing recording of
“Drowned On Dry Land.” I’m really surprised that Del Amitri didn’t record that one. I’ve got a somewhat
rough recording of that song as it was performed on Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight and the band played it
live at least a few times in that era while touring. I wondered what it was about that song, because
obviously it seems like you were invested enough in that song that the public heard it live.

(Justin Currie) Well, we tried to arrange it with the band quite a lot and it just never worked.
Partly, because it’s a bit long — it’s got six verses and the middle eight, which is a bit long and
we could never find a style in which we could set it. We tried to kind of go down a Tom Waits avenue
at one point, which just didn’t work. It’s just weird — it’s a very linear thing and it is just
one of those things that it just works well at a quiet moment at a concert and it comes across well.
It just always died a bit on tape whenever we tried to record it and arrange it. Some songs are just like that,
they just come alive in a room in front of people and they just die on tape and there’s no real rhyme or reason for why that’s the case.


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