Edwyn Collins

Edwyn Stephen Collins (born 23 August 1959) is an Ivor Novello Award winning
Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed
the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice. He has
since pursued a solo career as a musician, in addition to work as an
illustrator, television actor and producer, and as a record ... read more

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Interview video

Edwyn Collins chats to Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd, backstage at the 2011 Latitude Festival. The pair talk about...
→ Posted 17 July 2011 12.39pm — Comment on this

This week's new live music

Lianne La Havas, On tourA former backing singer with Paloma Faith, Lianne La Havas seems to have had her fill of over-the-top. Instead, she offers a big voice in a modest...
Posted 13 October 2012 12.05am — Comment on this

New Video - Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs, 'I Watch You'

Here's the video premiere for Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs 'I Watch You'. Think a mixture of Television and Richard Hell with particularly Tom Verlaine-esque vocals. The...
Posted 5 October 2012 4.49pm — Comment on this

Adele triumphs at Ivor Novello awards

Adele wins two prizes at songwriting awards, while Harvey's Let England Shake and Sheeran's The A Team are also honouredPJ Harvey and Ed Sheeran threw spikes under the Ad...
Posted 17 May 2012 4.41pm — Comment on this

Readers recommend: call-and-response songs – results

You called out your favourite tracks for this week's topic. Now it's our turn to respondWhat is call-and-response? What's that? I can't hear you! Yes, that's right, it's ...
Posted 26 January 2012 4.21pm — Comment on this

Edwyn Collins, Aidan Gillen and Frank Turner at Other Voices – video

Dylan Haskins talks to Edwyn Collins, Aidan Gillen and Frank Turner, as the 10th Other Voices festival draws to a close
Posted 5 December 2011 7.40pm — Comment on this

Frankie

Frankie & The Heartstrings are a five-piece guitar based rock band from Sunderland, Great Britain. Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice) produced their debut full length, Hunger, ...
Posted 27 November 2011 12.46am — Comment on this

Indietracks – review

Midland Railway Centre, ButterleyStaged at a vintage railway centre – a site patrons travel to on a Thomas the Tank Engine-like steam train while serenaded by artis...
Posted 2 August 2011 7.02pm — Comment on this

This week's festival news

Newton Faulker and ex-Busted lead guitarist Charlie Simpson are ready for some seaside frolics at a special Beach Sessions event on the second day of Relentless Boardmast...
Posted 23 July 2011 12.07am — Comment on this

Roger McGuinn inspires a generation of indie guitarists

12 April 1965: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe distinctive jangle of the Rickenbacker on Mr Tambourine Man wasn't actually th...
Posted 14 June 2011 12.50am — Comment on this

Edwyn Collins's Orange Juice make their entrance

February 1980: Number 21 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicOrange Juice's influence over indie music is so vast that it's hard to imagine ho...
Posted 14 June 2011 12.30am — Comment on this

Heavenly Recordings - Folk Rock Sampler (streams)

HVNLP89 was released by Heavenly as a taster of what we've got going on at the moment. It was initially given away on Brighton pier as the label for our Heavenly stick o...
Posted 26 May 2011 5.30pm — Comment on this

ONE FOR SITTING ROUND THE CAMPFIRE

It was my mate Jaques the Kipper who brought this to my attention via a compilation tape put together in the early 90s:-mp3 : The Rockingbirds - Gradually LearningThey so...
Posted 26 May 2011 6.00am — Comment on this

Comet Gain

Edwyn Collins produces this impressive new slice of inventive guitar-pop.
Posted 24 May 2011 6.16pm — Comment on this

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Top songs

The 5 most played Edwyn Collins songs in the past year.

  • A girl like you  109 plays
  • Dilemna  3 plays

Played on

Absolute Radio stations playing songs by Edwyn Collins over the past year.

  1. Absolute Radio 90s 250 plays
  2. Absolute Radio 112 plays
  3. Absolute 80s 15 plays
  4. Absolute Radio 00s 15 plays
  5. Absolute Classic Rock 15 plays
  6. Absolute Radio 70s 8 plays
  7. Absolute Radio 60s 8 plays

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