Dublin, 18 March 2024. Justin Currie “snaps” awake in his hotel room at 6am, then passes out again, before “coming to” at 11. It’s a show day on the Simple Minds European tour, which Currie’s band Del Amitri is supporting. Time for his ablutions.

“Gavin is not helpful when shaving,” Currie writes in his diary. This is Day 58 of a run of concerts stretching back the previous year to an American tour with Barenaked Ladies. Gavin is the pet name he’s given the uncontrollable shake that can assail his right hand. “One serious sideways wobble and you’re slit like an avocado. But the first pill has taken hold and all is reasonably steady. I imagine having a carer shave me and wish to be dead before such a thing is necessary.”

I can confirm that the musician’s hand was steady and that Gavin beh

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