The legendary scottish songwriter, Postcard Records co-founder and ex frontman of the seminal 80's post punk act Orange Juice. We are so proud to be bring a living legend with such an incredibly influential 30 year history of pop music to Newcastle.
Edwyn is touring in support of his seventh studio album 'Losing Sleep', which comes in leui of his miraculous recovery from a serious brain hemorrhage and illness in 2005, which left him paralysed down one side and with a condition called aphasia, hindering his ability to speak.
The album features an diverse array of contributing artists and co-writers from some of pop and rock's most well known acts, past and present: Ryan Jarman (The Cribs), Johnny Marr (uh, The Smiths), Roddy Frame, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy (both Franz Ferdinand) Romeo Stodart (Magic Numbers) and The Drums.
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Collins was a leading figure on the alternative Scottish scene in the late 1970s and 1980s, forming his first band, Nu-Sonics, aged 17. The band was later renamed Orange Juice, their first single released on Postcard Records (who later became home to Aztec Camera and Josef K). They then inked a deal with Polydor and released four studio albums whose jaunty, lustrous take on post punk; bouncing on David Mclymont's rubbery basslines and floating on Collin's chiming diminished chords and his breathy, sinus inflected voice, took a knife-blade eccentricity and carved out a hole in the belly of Post Punk .
The band briefly broke into the mainstream with Rip It Up in 1983, a hit so big that Simon Reynolds chose the name for his definitive book on post punk music.
The band disbanded a year later.
Edwyn then pursued a solo career with mixed results until A Girl Like You, a top 10 hit in seven countries in 1995 that anyone over 18 is guaranteed to have heard on the radio at some point in their lives.
Collins has recently turned to producing, working with acts including Sons and Daughters, The Cribs and Little Barrie.
Edwyn tours now after making an incredible return to the stage following a cerebral hemorrhage in 2005.
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