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September 23, 2005
The Glasgow School
With all the chaos of a new academic year, added to by the effects of having changed campuses, there's no time for blogging at the moment. Even so, I'm enjoying The Glasgow School so much I've got to tell whoever I'm communicating with by typing this. This review has things in it I don't agree with, but I do think it communicates the excitement of a band who always sound like you've just dropped the radio and it's falling apart as it bounces down the stairs. Hadn't thought about the lyrical connection with Morrissey but it's really obvious now.
I have two main memories of Orange Juice. One is crowding round a phone at an appointed time in a record shop in Aberdeen ('The Other Record Shop', for those who might remember) because those nice people at Postcard had agreed that they would play us an unobtainable Orange Juice track at that time. The other is seeing them play the day after some nasty incident (was it a mugging?) so that Edwyn was wearing a big eye-patch. Am I remembering right that they had borrowed a guitar for the evening? ('The bitter comes out better...')
B-)
Posted by Billy at September 23, 2005 7:56 PM
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Yes
I remember Orange Juice in Aberdeen and Edwyn playing with an eye patch and playing through John P's H|H amp. They sounded terrible but were gloriously awful and it was a great gig. I have never stopped listening to Orange Juice over the years and I am glad they are getting the recognition they deserve.
Posted by: robbie 
at September 24, 2005 3:22 PM
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