ROCKER JUSTIN I have Parkinson's and I call my tremor Gavin

Singer struggles with his voice and hands but lives for applause of audience

-  JOHN DINGWALL

ROCK star Justin Currie has revealed that he is battling Parkinson's disease and he has nicknamed the illness Gavin.

The Del Amitri frontman, 59, has been secretly living with the condition since 2022.

The Scot says he first realised something was wrong when he found himself struggling to hold a plectrum.

Currie visited a neurologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital who instructed him to relax his arms then raise them above his head, He identified a trembling hand as a potential indicator of Parkinson's.

But it would be 12 months before the diagnosis was confirmed, leading to what the singer describes as "a year of dread and hope".

He said: "Twelve months later, I sail out of the same clinic secure in the knowledge that I'm ill and emboldened by the pleasant surprise that they have pills for this sort of thing.

"I decide that I'm going to keep working, keep touring and keep playing, despite the uneasy feeling that another man is growing inside me, slowly seizing the means of control.

"It's definitely a fight to figure out who is in control.

"That's what it feels like a shadow inside you that is slowly but surely taking you over."