11-12-2017, 21:32
Justin Currie was born on this day in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1964. He is also known as ‘Ruby’, lol! His nickname allegedly has something to do with the cockney rhyming slang for curry which is ‘Ruby Murray’. It’s a Brit thing. Not entirely sure how a Scot, particularly a Glaswegian, ended up with a nickname of Sassenach origins, but unlikelier things, while exceedingly rare, have no doubt happened!!
Anyway – he was the founder and lead singer/songwriter of Del Amitri – an alt rock/power pop band. The band name has absolutely no meaning whatsoever, but it seems to me to be those names that were just pulled out of the ether that attract the most interest and attention, and encourage all sorts of wild and wonderful speculation – none of it correct. They are defunct, at this point, and Currie has since made four solo albums with his most recent, This Is My Kingdom Now, released in May this year.
From Del Amitri’s Change Everything –
Anyway – he was the founder and lead singer/songwriter of Del Amitri – an alt rock/power pop band. The band name has absolutely no meaning whatsoever, but it seems to me to be those names that were just pulled out of the ether that attract the most interest and attention, and encourage all sorts of wild and wonderful speculation – none of it correct. They are defunct, at this point, and Currie has since made four solo albums with his most recent, This Is My Kingdom Now, released in May this year.
From Del Amitri’s Change Everything –
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." ~ Bill Watterson