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On this day, 17 May 1992, Scottish rock band Del Amitri played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall.
The band were about to release their third album Change Everything which reached No 2 in the UK album charts, the band’s highest charting album.
It included the single "Always The Last To Know", which reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart and was nominated by Q Magazine as one of the top 50 albums of 1992.
Del Amitri's founding member and main songwriter, Justin Currie, explained in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless – basically a corruption of the Greek name 'Dimitri'." In 2018, Currie clarified that 'Del Amitri' is a bastardisation of the name of a film producer who appeared in the closing credits of a film he saw in 1979 – "probably Dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember... so eventually through osmosis or maybe Chinese Whispers 'Dimitri' became 'Del Amitri'."
