Four decades, one night, Caird Hall
Some bands soundtrack your life without ever asking permission. You hear a line in a pub, on the radio, in the car on a grey day and suddenly you’re 19 again, or heartbroken again, or just standing in your kitchen wondering why that song still hits so hard.
That’s Del Amitri.
Formed in Glasgow in 1983, Del Amitri have spent four decades quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) writing songs that sneak up on you big choruses, bittersweet lyrics, and that unmistakable Scottish knack for making the ordinary feel cinematic.
Now they’re heading out on their “Past To Present” tour four decades of their greatest music and Dundee gets a glorious hometown-adjacent stop:
Dundee date
Del Amitri: Past To Present
📍 Caird Hall, Dundee
📅 Saturday 5 December 2026
🎟️ Tickets on sale Friday 27 February, 9:30am
💷 From £53.35
Ticket links shown on the tour poster: regulartmusic.com / ticketmaster.co.uk / delamitri.info
Why this one matters
Del Amitri’s run of albums in particular is the stuff of proper “how did they do that again?” territory:
- Waking Hours (1989) the million-selling breakthrough featuring Nothing Ever Happens and Kiss This Thing Goodbye
- Change Everything (1992) driven by the massive radio hit Always The Last To Know, and reaching No.2 in the UK album chart
- Twisted (1995) charting at No.3, and home to their biggest international single Roll To Me (Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100)
- Can You Do Me Good? (2002) before the band went on hiatus, returning later for reunion tours
In short: this isn’t one of those “one hit and a handshake” nostalgia nights. This is a catalogue deep enough to keep surprising you, even if you think you know all the big ones.
What to expect on the night
The tour title says it all: Past To Present. Expect a set that’s built to celebrate the classics, but with enough range and heart that it doesn’t feel like a museum piece.
If you’re a long-time fan, you’ll get the big moments you came for. If you’re newer (or you somehow only know one song but you know it very well), you’re in for the nice surprise of realising just how many Del Amitri tracks you already have lodged in your brain.
And let’s be honest: Caird Hall in early December is a cracking setting for it warm lights, proper sound, and that feeling of being in a room full of people who all came for the same chorus.
Full Scottish dates (from the tour poster)
- Tue 1 Dec – Edinburgh, Usher Hall
- Wed 2 Dec – Perth, Concert Hall
- Fri 4 Dec – Aberdeen, Music Hall
- Sat 5 Dec – Dundee, Caird Hall
- Sun 6 Dec – Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
- Tue 8 Dec – Glasgow, Barrowland