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Interview: Edwyn Collins - 'I'm only a little famous. I move through life unmolested'
22 Mar 2013
The former Orange Juice frontman talks dignity, Donovan and being drop dead gorgeous
First record you ever bought ‘Jennifer Juniper’ by Donovan. Last extravagant purchase you made A 1958 Gretsch Anniversary guitar, laden with what we in the trade call ‘case candy’. All its original tags, paperwork, polishing cloth, etc. First…
Arctic Monkeys and Madness up for AIM awards
Music Gossip
Adele, Arctic Monkeys and Madness are all nominated for Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards. The annual awards show honours UK acts signed to independent labels, with this year's nominations led by heavy metal group Enter Shikari, who have…
What Presence! – The Rock Photography of Harry Papadopoulos
19 Dec 2011Stunning exhibition of post-punk music photography
Harry Papadopoulos is the great unsung documenter of post-punk, who, between 1978 and 1984, captured a crucial era in pop history in all its geeky glory. Having started out taking snaps for Bobby Bluebell’s fanzine, The Ten Commandments, and orbiting…
Madness, Kelis, The Waterboys and Tinchy Stryder play Northern Lights festival
30 May 2011
New Aberdeen music festival boasts Edwyn Collins and Paloma Faith
The one for … hitting the north Northern Lights Introducing a brand new contender to Scotland’s expanding festival scene, as Northern Lights welcomes an unexpectedly star-packed line-up to Seaton Park, a public field on the north of Aberdeen’s city…
All Tomorrow's Parties: Bowlie 2 - Butlin’s Minehead, Somerset, Fri 10-Sun 12 Dec
11 Jan 2011Ten year anniversary of pioneering chalet-based holiday camp festival
Ten years after pioneering the chalet-based holiday camp festival with their Bowlie Weekender, Belle & Sebastian have returned to the scene (not literally, because it’s now in Somerset) of one of their greatest creations with this decade-on celebration…
Edwyn Collins
16 Nov 2010Oran Mor, Glasgow, Sun 7 Nov 2010
With a new solo album called Losing Sleep and a retrospective of his old band Orange Juice called Coals to Newcastle out, it should have been just another day at the comeback coalface for a middle-aged indie star with a healthily enduring reputation.
Edwyn Collins tours UK to remote recent Coals To Newcastle box set
2 Nov 2010
Recent Losing Sleep album features The Cribs and Franz Ferdinand
The legendary Edinburgh pop-rocker has defied the odds and made a comeback after suffering a stroke in 2005. Since then, he’s completed 2007 album Home Again (begun at the end of 2004, then suspended due to his illness), and released the critically…
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle
1 Nov 2010(Domino) A small review isn’t nearly enough to express the wonders of this six CD and one DVD box set by the Edwyn Collins’ fronted floppy-fringed dandies who effectively invented indie-pop as we know it. Recorded over a startling four years from…
How seven key figures in Scottish culture have fared over 25 years
23 Sep 2010
25 years of The List
Didn’t they do well? Scotland has more than its fair share of talent, finds Kirstin Innes, as she chronicles the highs and lows of some of our finest exports over 25 years, including Peter Capaldi, Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Rankin, Douglas Gordon, Tilda…
Alain de Botton, AL Kennedy and Janice Galloway among highlights at Glasgow's Aye Write! literary festival
2 Mar 2010
Alain de Botton The terribly clever philosopher and author wonders just what our obsession with work is all about. Why do we spend most of our waking hours doing it and what makes it pleasurable? Fri 5 Mar, 6pm. Janet Paisley and Manda Scott…
Edwyn Collins and Teenage Fanclub - Mono, Glasgow, Thu 10 Sep
17 Sep 2009To anyone with an affinity for Glasgow’s indie music scene, this show was something beyond special. Simply surveying the local dignitaries in the crowd (Stuart Murdoch, Duglas T Stewart, Stephen Pastel, Adele Bethel, Jackie McKeown and more) was like…
Word Power Book Fringe
6 Aug 2009
Helen FitzGerald (reading Fri 14 Aug) is just one of the great lineup of local and international authors on at our favourite local book shop Word Power’s Book Fringe this year. Other readers include Tom Leonard (Fri 21 Aug), Allan Massie (Thu 13 Aug)…
Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins
‘I witter on like a budgie, as my mum would say.’ Lanarkshire-born writer Grace Maxwell is chuckling as she talks about Falling and Laughing, her story of partner Edwyn Collins’ miraculous rehabilitation from two devastating brain haemorrhages in 2005.
T in the Park: Soundtrack to the weekend
Friday The whole festival starts in considerable style with The Maccabees and ‘No Kind Words’ before shifting in gloriously mental fashion with ‘Roulette Dares’ by The Mars Volta so sing along now … ‘Exoskeleton, junction at the railroad delayed!…
Summer festivals line-up announced
Here at The List, we can barely take a jaunt to the water cooler without another festival announcement popping into our inbox. At the offices of T in the Park (Fri 10-Sun 12 Jul) there’s been the usual flurry of activity. One of New York’s finest…
Pitch perfect
Pitching itself as the ‘Scottish Brits,’ the Tartan Clef Music Awards rocked into town last week in suitable glam style, setting out its stall with some of Scotland’s most celebrated acts and championing the great and good of the country’s music scene.
Celtic Connections add to line-up
Celtic Connections have announced two more impressive additions to their line-up. Martha Wainwright and Teddy Thompson will perform a double-bill at the Old Fruitmarket on 27 January. A host of special guests have also been added to the bill for the…
Celtic charms
Celtic Connections
From Africa to America, bluegrass to country, Celtic Connections looks set to showcase a roster of international talent, finds Anna Millar
Freshly squeezed - support for Edwyn Collins
19 Jun 2008The great and good of the music glitterati have come out in force to support former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins' new single, Home Again, which hits the shelves on Monday 23 June. Franz Ferdinand, Jarvis Cocker, Bernard Butler, Graham Coxon and…
GFT and O2 Wireless Weekender present a day of Glasgow music docs
2 May 2008The Glasgow Film Theatre, in association with O2 Wireless Weekender, will present a day of short documentaries about Glaswegian pop music on Sunday 11 May. Each of the the three films to be shown - about The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Franz…
Tartan Heart Festival returns in August
24 Apr 2008Following its success last year, the Tartan Heart Festival returns to Beauly in Inverness-shire on 8–9 Aug. Among the acts confirmed thus far are Scouting for Girls, The Waterboys, Idlewild, Edwyn Collins and Nouvelle Vague.
5 Reasons To Go See - Edwyn Collins
The Scottish troubadour’s career has spanned 30 years, during which time he’s been a relentlessly original and innovative artist, redefining pop music first with his band Orange Juice and then as a solo artist of great renown. Three years ago Collins…
Edwyn Collins announces Scottish live shows
29 Feb 2008Celebrated Scottish singer-songwriter and producer Edwyn Collins is to play his first live Scottish shows since his brain haemorrhage in 2005. He will be playing songs from his 2007 album Home Again for the first time in Scotland at Edinburgh…
Edwyn Collins - album review
Soul blues folk
Although recorded prior to his near fatal double cerebral haemorrhage in 2005, Edwyn Collins’ sixth solo long player can’t help but resonate more poignantly in light of everything the ex-Orange Juice frontman has been through. At one stage he looked…






