In America the song they were promoting on TVam, 1995’s ‘Roll To Me’, hit Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 10. Promoting 1992 hit 'Always The Last to Know', the band appeared on an episode alongside an En Vogue video ('My Lovin'), Shakespears Sister ('I Don't Care') and, performing smash US hit 'Jump', adolescent rap duo Kriss Kross, they of the backwards-jeans. Two years later, Del Amitri were still regulars on the nation's favourite chart show. Suddenly, after a still-born first album (1985’s Del Amitri), with 1989’s Waking Hours, hit single ‘Nothing Ever Happens’ propelled them to sharing a Top of the Pops stage with Phil Collins, then in the imperial phase of his solo career, newcomer Sinead O’Connor singing 'Nothing Compares 2 U', and the premier of Public Enemy’s ‘Welcome to the Terrordome’ video. Almost two decades on from their last album, Del Amitri easily remember the good old days, when a Glasgow indie band “who never really cut it as Orange Juice and Josef K copyists, which is kinda what we were” became, in effect, overnight successes.
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