tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post2488839171061806978..comments2023-10-22T20:57:20.675+08:00Comments on Fragments: Now that's really somethingLottiePhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-891846452900743702011-07-14T04:48:07.102+08:002011-07-14T04:48:07.102+08:00I don't remember Roddy Frame singing. Apart fr...I don't remember Roddy Frame singing. Apart from than, to paraphrase Casablanca,<br />I remember every detail. Edwyn wore a bolo tie, you wore blue.<br /><br />tgmolmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-74436306827902843812011-07-03T19:46:57.310+08:002011-07-03T19:46:57.310+08:00"The Coffee Table Song" was on Hope and ..."The Coffee Table Song" was on <i>Hope and Despair</i> which was released in 1989.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641502922802313871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-41305418015749409982011-07-03T16:30:07.479+08:002011-07-03T16:30:07.479+08:00Here's a slightly more surprising collaboratio...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twclozhKqWo" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> a slightly more surprising collaboration.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641502922802313871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-31602944443549578612011-07-03T16:26:51.618+08:002011-07-03T16:26:51.618+08:00Definitely the same one, and I know I was there (p...Definitely the same one, and I know I was there (plus you saw me), but I have very litle recollection of Roddy's involvement. How strange. Great detective work, BTW.Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06641502922802313871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-56224422001524209962011-07-03T14:23:36.428+08:002011-07-03T14:23:36.428+08:00It must have been there after all:
http://www.her...It must have been there after all:<br /><br />http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/roddy-frame-and-edwyn-collins-tic-toc-at-marco-s-edinburgh-1.508880<br /><br />Roddy Frame and Edwyn Collins. Tic Toc at Marco's, Edinburgh<br /><br />KEITH BRUCE<br /><br />19 Aug 1991<br /><br />IT'S taken me 10 years to grow a fringe like Roger McGuinn's. Over that period Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera) and Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice) have gone from appearing at the Spaghetti Factory in Glasgow's Gibson Street as part of Postcard Records scene to appearing on the Festival Fringe dressed in black trousers and white shirts like waiters in an Italian restaurant.<br /><br />Any ironies were almost certainly deliberate. This pair of pranksters know perfectly well that their brand of Glasgow camp (of which Edwyn was the architect) hold a special place in the hearts of many. The hall (packed to the gills) in Marco's Leisure Centre was helpfully sign-posted ''Hair Workshop'', just in case we got lost.<br /><br />Variously augmented by Gary Sanctuary on sax and keyboards and guitarists Steve Skinner and Malcolm Ross, the duo picked and strummed their way though old favourites like Collins' Consolation Prize and Simply Thrilled Honey and Frame's The Boy Wonders and Oblivious alongside newer songs -- Graciously (Collins) and Spanish Horses (Frame) -- and covers (Dylan's I Threw It All Away and a suprisingly affecting Love's Been Good To Me).<br /><br />Almost better than all that, though, was Rod and Eddie's double-act, improvised exchanges built around mock compliments and thoughts on today's youth culture: sort of Sweeney and Steen meet Victor and Barry. Some of it might even have got up the nose of Councillor Moira Knox, that's how trim a Fringe show it was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-48502274546753522842011-07-03T13:09:48.609+08:002011-07-03T13:09:48.609+08:00Why no apostrophe ?
Perhaps it was named in homag...Why no apostrophe ?<br /><br />Perhaps it was named in homage to the Filipino strongman Fernando, or his shoe-buying wife Imelda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-72864568854377391762011-07-03T13:06:57.224+08:002011-07-03T13:06:57.224+08:00I think it might have been Queens Hall, although l...I think it might have been Queens Hall, although long after HLHR, perhaps 89-91. I was with my sister, I'll ask her if she can remember (unlikely).<br /><br />It was an Edwyn Collins concert and Roddy Frame showed up to accompany Edwyn, perhaps for an encore, although he didn't sing.<br /><br /><br />99.9% certain I saw you there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-41315913122403546152011-07-03T10:14:11.014+08:002011-07-03T10:14:11.014+08:00Marcos Leisure Centre (why no apostrophe?!) is sti...Marcos Leisure Centre (why no apostrophe?!) is still there - it's the "A" on my little map in this post.LottiePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-38938009702757108542011-07-03T10:11:29.837+08:002011-07-03T10:11:29.837+08:00Claire and I saw Aztec Camera at the Queens Hall, ...Claire and I saw Aztec Camera at the Queens Hall, just after <i>High Land Hard Rain</i> came out. Claire went along beforehand to find out if it was sitting or standing, and the door was answered by Roddy Frame himself. He wrote on her ticket "To Claire. Hope you get a good seat. Roddy Frame". For a long time a bus stop in Clerk Street had a scratched message on it: "RODDY FRAME IS COOL". I firmly believe it to be true. (Claire, I hope you still have that ticket? I'm sure Simon would love to put it up on <a href="http://www.edinburghgigarchive.com/" rel="nofollow">Edinburgh Gig Archive</a>.)<br /><br />But I never saw Edwyn and Roddy together, <b>tgmolm</b> (always with the pseudonyms), more's the pity. <br /><br />I'm pretty sure MJ's ginger escapade was in her flat in Upper Grove Place, <b>Claire</b>. I only went there once. You remember Louise too? More details?LottiePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-72333809977722845482011-07-03T02:29:37.117+08:002011-07-03T02:29:37.117+08:00The MJ-ginger incident took place in Morningside, ...The MJ-ginger incident took place in Morningside, didn't it? And I'm pretty sure Coffee Table Song didn't come out until a few years after that gig.<br /><br />That part of Embra has been undergoing quite a transformation. Gone are the breweries, to be replaced by bank HQs, luxury flats on the waterfront and expensive restaurants. Marco's wouldn't quite fit in but I haven't been down Grove Street for a while so I don't know if it's still there. I did live in that flat for a while in 98 though. <br /><br />Louise. Ugh.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11787214538691588685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14447458.post-29843706397985497892011-07-02T19:28:18.254+08:002011-07-02T19:28:18.254+08:00I don't think I was there, always I have seen ...I don't think I was there, always I have seen him in some rather odd venues. A rockabilly bar in Essen, Germany being the strangest.<br /><br />I did see you at another Edwyn Collins concert, although I think you were with a dark-haired, short(ish) guy - unless your sister was going through a Cabaret phase at the time. Edwyn Collins was playing with Roddy Frame and it was somewhere over near the University, Minto Street or thereabouts.<br /><br />It is the right timeframe though, so perhaps my mind is playing tricks. Hasn't that area been knocked down now ? I really can't picture it at all although I must have passed by it a few times.<br /><br />tgmolmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com