Member Since: 5/28/2006
Band Website: edwyncollins.com
Band Members: This is Edwyn's own MySpace, organised for him by his son Will. Edwyn Collins was born in Edinburgh. He grew up in Dundee and moved to Glasgow at 14. When he was 16, he sold his stamp collection to buy a cheap Burns guitar and an amp. Having taught himself to play, he formed a punk rock band with some schoolmates which he named after the guitar, the NuSonics. This group became Orange Juice, the first act on the famous Postcard Records of Scotland label, which Edwyn founded with the jumped up little Scotsman, Alan Horne. Postcard was small but perfectly formed, burned brightly for a short time. Orange Juice had a longer life and some notable successes, but they too gave up the ghost in 1985. That's a very long time ago. Since then Edwyn has enjoyed a long and varied solo career. One of the highs was when he had a runaway global killer hit in 1995 with a song called "A Girl Like You." Altogether, not counting compilations and "best of" albums, Edwyn and Orange Juice have released nine albums, most of which he has produced himself. 2005 was a pretty terrible year for Edwyn and his family. In February Edwyn suffered a very serious cerebral haemorrhage and after brain surgery, spent six months in hospital. He's doing much better now and continues the fight to recover all his former powers. Until Will showed him, Edwyn had never heard of MySpace. Now it's part of his therapy.
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Record Label: Heavenly
Type of Label: Indie