“I do know Parkinson’s will cease me”

Del Amitri singer Justin Currie has revealed that he has Parkinson’s illness, which he accepts will ultimately cease him from performing.

The 59-year-old confirmed the information in an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, when he stated that he’s now able the place he can now not “play the best way I’d anticipate to”.

He stated that the analysis has demonstrated that “you suppose you’re invulnerable till one thing proves you’re not.”

“I do know it’ll worsen. At what charge, no person is aware of. So I do know I’m going to must cease. The thought is kind of grim.”

He added that Parkinson’s has modified his character, “in not essentially unfavourable methods.”

“With any type of incapacity, you turn into conscious of incapacity on the whole, and also you turn into aware of that line that disabled folks have been saying for years – that there aren’t able-bodied folks, there are simply lots of people who will not be but disabled.

“So I fairly like that. I fairly like the concept that we’re all going to undergo a few of these difficulties sooner or later in life.”

“That ridiculous cliche, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’, that’s not true.

“For those who lose a leg you aren’t robust. And I’m not stronger for having Parkinson’s, imagine you me.”

The Glasgow pop-rock band fashioned in 1980 and are finest recognized for his or her ‘80s hits together with ‘Nothing Ever Occurs’ and ‘Roll to Me’.

They launched a complete of six studio albums earlier than splitting in 2002. A 2013 reunion ultimately resulted of their newest full-length effort, 2021’s ‘Deadly Errors’.

The band are presently on tour across the UK, supporting fellow ‘80s Scottish act Easy Minds on a run of reveals that started on March 15 in Leeds, and has three remaining dates: at Bournemouth’s Worldwide Centre on March 26, Cardiff’s Worldwide Area on March 27 and at last Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on March 29. Any remaining tickets for the reveals could be discovered here.