Edwyn Collins

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Chvrches: Screen Violence review — gloriously gloomy pop takes aim at Tinseltown

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Aug 2021

... are part of a long tradition of melodiously bittersweet Glasgow bands that stretches from Lloyd Cole and Edwyn Collins to Teenage Fanclub and Glasvegas.

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Our Ladies review — teenage kicks north of the border

The Times/The Sunday Times 27 Aug 2021

It’s a story out of time, set in Scotland in 1996, and full of melancholic sadness, the tunes of Edwyn Collins and Big Country, and lines of dialogue that ...

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Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker get matching tattoos to announce new album

Metro UK 10 Aug 2021

Travis is working on an MGK album for the second time (Picture. Getty/Instagram/travisbarker) ... ‘“Born with horns” the album ... https.//www.instagram.com/p/CSXIQL7lW5J/ ... The rocker duo has already been busy this year after collaborating on a cover of Edwyn Collins’ 90s hit A Girl Like You, which featured on the soundtrack to Amazon movie Paradise City ... .

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The Strange World Of... Vic Godard & Subway Sect

The Quietus 10 Aug 2021

Vic Godard, courtesy Alchetron. It would be too easy to describe Vic Godard as a Zelig figure with a serendipitous career ... Then, just as quickly, they left punk behind ... Then he suggested Edwyn Collins as a producer for the whole album ... Edwyn Collins was still in London at the time and it came out on his label which meant I didn’t have any studio fees.

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Neu! Reekie!'s Michael Pedersen Talks Edinburgh International Festival

The Quietus 02 Aug 2021

Orange Juice hero Edwyn Collins will headline ... Getting Edwyn Collins is quite the coup, what’s your relationship like with his work? ... with a new headliner that packed a cultural punch; and there’s only a rare few on this spinning planet we’d be as excited about as Edwyn Collins.

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Jonathan Davis – “It’s A Sin” (Pet Shop Boys Cover)

Stereogum 24 Jul 2021

... Edwyn Collins’ “A Girl Like You.” Listen to Davis’ take on “It’s A Sin” below.

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Britain’s five best museums – featuring space ports, Covid jabs and free dinners

The Observer 21 Jul 2021

For a long time, recalls village resident Edwyn Collins, the former frontman of Orange Juice, Timespan “wasn’t much good”. Grace Maxwell, Collins’ wife and manager and member of the Timespan board, adds ... Rip it up and start again … musician Edwyn Collins, a Helmsdale local, enjoys the new face of Timespan.

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Covid in Scotland: What summer music festivals will go ahead?

BBC News 19 Jul 2021

Scotland has lost several music festivals this summer as organisers say it is impossible to deal with Covid rules ... What events have been axed? ... Van Morrison, Primal Scream, Rick Astley and Scottish acts The Jesus and Mary Chain, Edwyn Collins and Altered Images were among the artists who had sold out their dates at the bandstand in Kelvingrove Park ... .

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Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker join forces for ‘Paradise City’ soundtrack cut ‘A Girl ...

NME 21 Jun 2021

Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker have teamed up once more, this time for a dark and brooding cover of Edwyn Collins’ 1994 single ‘A Girl Like You’. The song comes as part of the season one soundtrack for the Amazon Prime series Paradise City, which is due for release in the coming months via Sumerian Records. Take a listen below. ... READ MORE ... .

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The Collection: Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne

Guitar.com 28 May 2021

As well as working with the likes of Peter Bruntnell, Pernice Brothers, Son Volt, Ray Davies, Uncle Tupelo and Edwyn Collins, he even recorded with Jerry Lee Lewis – “that was an amazing experience, it was all live, he’d just nod at you when it was time for a guitar solo and you’d better not mess up!” – and toured with The Pogues.

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Machine Gun Kelly announces huge run of ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ tour dates

NME 26 Apr 2021

READ MORE. Machine Gun Kelly – ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ review. rap devil proves that pop-punk ain’t dead ... 𝑇𝑂𝑈𝑅!. pre-sale tomorrow ... Last month, meanwhile, Kelly and Travis Barker delivered their own take on Edwyn Collins‘ ‘A Girl Like You’ for the soundtrack of new Amazon show Paradise City ... .

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Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: ‘My first band was the Spanking Newts’

The Observer 22 Apr 2021

McCormack’s music shop. I got my parents to buy me a bass, because I admired the Clash’s Paul Simonon and thought that would be the easiest instrument to learn. McCormack’s was a Glasgow institution ... I could also play them all day ... Many years later, I had the opportunity of driving Terry’s son across London in a car with Edwyn Collins’s son ... Photograph.

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Summer Nights festival postponed until 2022

BBC News 20 Apr 2021

Glasgow's popular Summer Nights festival has been postponed and rescheduled for summer 2022 ... 'Heavy heart' ... Van Morrison, Primal Scream, Rick Astley and Scottish acts The Jesus and Mary Chain, Edwyn Collins and Altered Images were among the artists who had sold out their dates at the bandstand ... It said ... Related Topics. .

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Hear Machine Gun Kelly’s Ridiculous Cover Of Edwyn Collins’ “A Girl Like You” In The Trailer For The Amazon Show Paradise City

Stereogum 24 Mar 2021

(Somehow, Machine Gun Kelly is not in the cast, despite his proven affinity for this kind of thing.) The trailer would be absurd even without that version of “A Girl Like You.” Below, watch the trailer and then cleanse yourself with the video for the Edwyn Collins original.

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Listen to Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker cover Edwyn Collins’ ‘A Girl Like You’

NME 24 Mar 2021

Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker have delivered their own take on Edwyn Collins‘ ‘A Girl Like You’ for the soundtrack of new Amazon show Paradise City ... influenced sounds of Collins’ original to deliver a darker and more striking spin on the track.

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