Waking Hours is the second studio album

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 by Del Amitri

Del Amitri

Del Amitri were a Scottish pop-rock guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advertisement in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him...

, released in July 1989. It reached number 6 in the UK Albums Chart

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 and featured one of the band's most famous songs, "Nothing Ever Happens

Nothing Ever Happens

"Nothing Ever Happens" is a song by the Scottish rock band Del Amitri. Released as a single between late 1989 and early 1990, it reached #11 in the UK charts , and was a top-10 hit in Ireland, peaking at #4...

", which reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart

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. The album's opening track, "Kiss This Thing Goodbye", entered the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100

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 when released as a single

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 for the second time.

History

Many Del Amitri fans consider Waking Hours to be the band's first "real" album, perhaps because the post-punk

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 influence of the first, Del Amitri

Del Amitri (album)

Del Amitri is the eponymous debut album by the Scottish rock band Del Amitri, released in 1985 by Chrysalis Records. A CD reissue in 2003 included 4 bonus tracks.-Track listing:...

(1985), leads it to be so radically different in sound to the rest of their output; perhaps because Del Amitri was extremely difficult to come by for many years before its CD reissue in 2003, leaving many who became fans in the 1990s unaware of its existence. In either case, Waking Hours arguably represents Del Amitri's first "mature" record, and was certainly the first to bring them any mainstream success.

Typically for Del Amitri (the group never made two albums with the same band members), Waking Hours featured some recently-introduced personnel: new guitarist Mick Slaven

Mick Slaven

Michael Slaven is a session guitarist and record producer from Glasgow, Scotland.A former gardener at the University of Glasgow, Slaven became the guitarist for Bourgie Bourgie in the 1980s, and was briefly a member of Del Amitri...

 and keyboard player Andy Alston. Despite some important creative input (he contributed to the writing of "Kiss This Thing Goodbye" and "Hatful Of Rain") Slaven left the band before the album had even been released. He was replaced by David Cummings, who appears on the album's front cover despite not having played on it. It would also be the last record for drummer Paul Tyagi, who was replaced by Brian McDermott

Brian McDermott

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.

Track listing

1. "Kiss This Thing Goodbye" (Justin Currie
   Justin Currie
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   , Iain Harvie
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   , Mick Slaven
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   Michael Slaven is a session guitarist and record producer from Glasgow, Scotland.A former gardener at the University of Glasgow, Slaven became the guitarist for Bourgie Bourgie in the 1980s, and was briefly a member of Del Amitri...
   
   ) – 4:35
2. "Opposite View" (Currie) – 4:52
3. "Move Away Jimmy Blue" (Currie, Harvie) – 3:47
4. "Stone Cold Sober" (Currie) – 4:57
5. "You're Gone" (Currie, Harvie) – 5:10
6. "When I Want You" (Currie) – 4:32
7. "This Side Of The Morning" (Currie) – 4:21
8. "Empty" (Currie) – 4:38
9. "Hatful Of Rain" (Currie, Harvie, Slaven) – 5:01
10. "Nothing Ever Happens
    Nothing Ever Happens
    "Nothing Ever Happens" is a song by the Scottish rock band Del Amitri. Released as a single between late 1989 and early 1990, it reached #11 in the UK charts , and was a top-10 hit in Ireland, peaking at #4...
    
    " (Currie) – 3:53

Credits

• Justin Currie – vocals
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  , bass
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  , guitar
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• Iain Harvie – guitar
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• Mick Slaven – guitar
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• Andy Alston – keyboards
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• Paul Tyagi – drums
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with

• Robert Cairns - violin
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• Blair Cowan - accordion
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   and synthesizer
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• Julian Dawson - harmonica
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• Caroline Lavelle - cello
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• Steven Irving - drums
• James O'Malley - bass
• Will Mowat - keyboards and sequencing

• Mixed by - Julian Mendelsohn

Recorded at Park Lane, Linford Manor and Chippimg Norton.

Singles

Cover
	Kiss This Thing Goodbye Released: July 1989, re-released March 1990 B-sides: "No Holding On" "Slowly, It's Coming Back" 10" vinyl version included "Fred Partington's Daughter" Chart positions: original release – did not chart; re-release – # 35 (US)
	Stone Cold Sober Released: September 1989 B-sides: "The Return Of Maggie Brown" "Talk It To Death" (Justin Currie Justin Currie Justin Robert Currie is a Scottish singer and songwriter, best known as the founding member of the band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence.-Del Amitri:Justin Currie established the band Del Amitri while... , Iain Harvie Iain Harvie Iain Wallace Harvie is the guitarist with the Scottish rock band called Del Amitri. Along with lead singer and bassist Justin Currie, Harvie is one of only two members to be present throughout Del Amitri's history from its 1982 inception... ) Chart positions: did not chart
	Nothing Ever Happens Released: December 1989 (UK) January 1990 (US) B-sides: "So Many Souls To Change" "Don't I Look Like The Kind Of Guy You Used To Hate" "Evidence" Chart positions: # 11 (UK)
	Move Away Jimmy Blue Released: May 1990 B-sides: "Another Letter Home" "April The First" "More Than You'd Ever Know" Chart positions: # 36 (UK)

• All singles released on A&M Records
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• All B-sides written by Justin Currie unless specified.