While Frame wrote it at around the same time as he wrote the songs on Surf, it was not released in Europe and the USA until 2004 when it appeared on the Marina records compilation, Ave Marina.

Like those albums, the songs on Surf are very carefully put together to form a clear narrative and a sustained whole. Andrew Shields is a freelance historian, who grew up in the West of Ireland and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. I have previously written here about Roddy Frame’s time with Aztec Camera. And it is good that things got a bit sexier, in a way." Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when So, I have settled on the literally true ‘born in Glasgow’, as that was where the nuns of St Francis Maternity did indeed deliver me, in the vicinity of Ibrox Stadium. "My whole interest was the ballads - people miss out on the beauty of those, things like `The Bewlay Brothers' and `Quicksand'. ‘Walk Out to Winter’ is an exhilarated, visible exhalation in the icy air. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. There would be no return to the routine of regular albums, constant touring and inane promotions which were the lot of the type of ‘chart’ band that they had been. But I'm in two minds. And, hopefully, now someone will persuade Roddy to release some new music soon. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. My ears pricked up when I heard those Postcard label songs, ‘Mattress of Wire’ and ‘Orchid Girl’. His response was – laughter. A few examples of the skill with which he achieves this effect are the lines – heard you were out, SW3/ talking about how you were over me – and – me stuck on The Strand, trying to get through – from the lyric of my first choice from the album, the beautiful jazz influenced ballad, Over You. I can't stand to read how other bands `just jammed, and it was edited later'; I'm very structured. Aztec Camera were a collaboration of TWENTY TWO different musicians who came and went across a fifteen year period but most recognisable for its front and main man, Roddy Frame (born in Scotland in 1964). Good to hear your recollections of that time and place, thanks. Here’s Roddy performing it in Brighton in 2008: This idea of life remaining as normal even for his ex-partner is also subtly suggested by the line – are the trees turning red where you are today – in the same song. to your comment. ", Preternaturally able with instruments, Frame asked a department store Santa for an electric guitar and an amp when he was four, and became obsessed with Bowie soon after. "My father was a great singer. Surprisingly, Warners let him go a couple of years back, and a frisson of turbulence followed; he signed to tiny label, Independiente, and released a lovely album, The North Star, under his own name, but Independiente managed conspicuously little promotion. But I don't think Rod's struggling for ideas in the least. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. The next, Reason For Living, is probably my favourite song from Roddy’s solo career. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

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In some ways, he's practically earned retirement, though that's not on the cards. Your email address will not be published. It's a semi-tone flat. It's not a bad canon, and might entitle anyone to rest on their laurels a bit. Frame was a poetic songster of a high order. Good article, by the way. I remember Neutral Blue rehearsing in the Key Youth Centre. When hope held out its hands today, you laughed and turned and fled. Perhaps our path crossed back then. ‘Release’ remains the album’s high point for me, with its arresting opening that mixes starry-eyed romanticism and earthy anger (as if the girl he’d asked to run away with him had laughed and said ‘Aye, maybe after my shift at Greggs is over’): Silver shone the rooftops, I heard the words ‘you will’. A few other highlights worth pointing out include Frame’s wonderfully dextrous and intricate guitar accompaniment on High Class Music and the fine ballad Tough which opens with the brilliant lines, slowly she dissolves me/ in waves of her and leaves us blurred.

Roddy Frame – Overdosed on Keats. In consequence, it’s an extremely intimate album, where his skills as a guitarist and fine singer are very much to the fore. I never liked having to waste space on a book cover defining where I grew up – formulations such as ‘the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow’ seemed so cumbersome. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. ‘The Bugle Sounds Again’ rhymes ‘love’ with ‘glove’ and ‘above’ and fades to a bugle being played maniacally, while Frame ditches boyish sweetness for boyish bitterness in ‘We Could Send Letters’, complaining ungratefully of being ‘smothered in the sympathy you bleed’. These are slipped in so unobtrusively and naturally, however, that it is only after several listenings that the pattern becomes apparent. The other influences I hear on the record include the great tin pan alley craftsmen songwriters like Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. And so to the songs: Here Comes The Ocean, my first pick from The North Star, has a lovely rolling feel to it and an enigmatic lyric which seems to touch on some of the themes discussed above.

However, from the beginnings of his solo career, it was clear that he had no intention of returning to the treadmill which he had been on in his years with Aztec Camera. His ear is acute.

It's an odd thing. Please If the CD lacks the kind of blistering guitar fireworks that were a hallmark of Frame’s early work with Aztec Camera, this loss is more than made up for by the beautifully understated and subtle approach he displays in his playing right through the album. ‘I’m always, always trying to be the archetypal free,’ he sings, like a boy who has read his Camus as well as his Keats. Like all of his albums since then, the songs on it were very finely crafted and beautifully played by a backing group which included his friends, Clare Kenny on bass (she has also played with Edwyn Collins) and Mark Edwards on keyboards. I always thought that the “Dip” referred to was the Diplomat, as I’d been there a few times with Roddy, Campbell, Davy and Ralds.

Like all of Frame’s previous solo albums, Seven Dials was yet another collection of beautifully put-together songs impeccably performed by a master craftsman. Please 'active' : ''"> And I think that's maybe..." he shrugs, "an indication that I'm an old fogey." One of its singles, "How Men Are", was a clear-eyed piece of gender politics, a New Man anthem ahead of its time. "Money just comes." Fantastic thing for him to do, take the time for a kid like me. A live version of it can be seen here. There may be a hint of profundity in the bridge, but it’s an unabashedly pop lyric. And Queen aren’t the most obviously influential of bands, so to take an ostensibly different approach and use some of the techniques is pretty clever. He was unreachable now. Over time, the name became shorthand for Frame and whichever group of session musicians he happened to be playing with at the time. "Ah, that was when I was taking my stuff round to record shops. Warner Brothers already had the rights to his lyrics. Yet I remember feeling betrayed when one of EK’s most famous sons, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, spoke of being ‘a boy from Glasgow’ once he had achieved the fame that his prodigious talents deserved.

By 15, he was penning ballads, already developing the style that had him compared to American West Coast bands like Love and The Byrds. Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Scotland.

English Garden, my other choice, is one of Frame’s most beautiful ‘break-up songs’ with a beautifully judged minimalist musical accompaniment. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Apart from this, he's almost unnaturally laid back. ", You tell me. "Obviously, there was a backlash against strident feminism, and the backlash seemed to be an ironic, knowing kind of sexism, resurrecting the old Carry On humour. It also features one of his finest lyrics (Used to be mine, I played while she sang/ Said someday we’d drive to Daymer Bay and walk along the sand/ Now in every room a different sorrow hangs/ And the past is like another place, it’s a foreign land). The most insightful comments on all subjects

Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. After some consultation with my friend, fellow Toppermost contributor and Queen expert, David Lewis, we both noticed a hint of the influence of that band on the song. Somewhere in our hearts, there is a star that shines for them! People always bang on about the craft of the songwriter, don't they? Broadly speaking, his solo songs were also generally far more directly folk/folk rock influenced than his previous work had been. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Community

Roddy Frame’s first solo record, the excellent The North Star, was released in 1998, three years after Frestonia had appeared. Create a commenting name to join the debate. In an excellent piece on Surf (which can be read here), Philip Cummins compares it with Paul Simon’s Hearts And Bones and Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel Of Love and claims that all three albums explore “themes of love, heartbreak and identity… skilfully and masterfully”. ‘We met in the summer and walked till the fall,’ Frame sings – which, despite the song’s innocence, gives a sense of his ambition to break America, as I can confirm that nobody in East Kilbride referred to the autumn as the fall. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. The material on his records also became much more pared-back.

Throughout its existence, he remained the key figure in the group as the front man, chief songwriter and final arbiter of its musical direction. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. Aztec Camera: Are you "Oblivious"?(!) Here’s a fine live performance of the song. ", At about 12, he got a stint in an East Kilbride social club with "a bloke about my dad's age who'd played double-bass with Lonnie Donegan. If any old youngster could pen such lines, then precious few could come up with a line as striking as ‘I felt the rain and called it genius’.

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Like those albums, the songs on Surf are very carefully put together to form a clear narrative and a sustained whole. Andrew Shields is a freelance historian, who grew up in the West of Ireland and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. I have previously written here about Roddy Frame’s time with Aztec Camera. And it is good that things got a bit sexier, in a way." Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when So, I have settled on the literally true ‘born in Glasgow’, as that was where the nuns of St Francis Maternity did indeed deliver me, in the vicinity of Ibrox Stadium. "My whole interest was the ballads - people miss out on the beauty of those, things like `The Bewlay Brothers' and `Quicksand'. ‘Walk Out to Winter’ is an exhilarated, visible exhalation in the icy air. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. There would be no return to the routine of regular albums, constant touring and inane promotions which were the lot of the type of ‘chart’ band that they had been. But I'm in two minds. And, hopefully, now someone will persuade Roddy to release some new music soon. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. My ears pricked up when I heard those Postcard label songs, ‘Mattress of Wire’ and ‘Orchid Girl’. His response was – laughter. A few examples of the skill with which he achieves this effect are the lines – heard you were out, SW3/ talking about how you were over me – and – me stuck on The Strand, trying to get through – from the lyric of my first choice from the album, the beautiful jazz influenced ballad, Over You. I can't stand to read how other bands `just jammed, and it was edited later'; I'm very structured. Aztec Camera were a collaboration of TWENTY TWO different musicians who came and went across a fifteen year period but most recognisable for its front and main man, Roddy Frame (born in Scotland in 1964). Good to hear your recollections of that time and place, thanks. Here’s Roddy performing it in Brighton in 2008: This idea of life remaining as normal even for his ex-partner is also subtly suggested by the line – are the trees turning red where you are today – in the same song. to your comment. ", Preternaturally able with instruments, Frame asked a department store Santa for an electric guitar and an amp when he was four, and became obsessed with Bowie soon after. "My father was a great singer. Surprisingly, Warners let him go a couple of years back, and a frisson of turbulence followed; he signed to tiny label, Independiente, and released a lovely album, The North Star, under his own name, but Independiente managed conspicuously little promotion. But I don't think Rod's struggling for ideas in the least. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. The next, Reason For Living, is probably my favourite song from Roddy’s solo career. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

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In some ways, he's practically earned retirement, though that's not on the cards. Your email address will not be published. It's a semi-tone flat. It's not a bad canon, and might entitle anyone to rest on their laurels a bit. Frame was a poetic songster of a high order. Good article, by the way. I remember Neutral Blue rehearsing in the Key Youth Centre. When hope held out its hands today, you laughed and turned and fled. Perhaps our path crossed back then. ‘Release’ remains the album’s high point for me, with its arresting opening that mixes starry-eyed romanticism and earthy anger (as if the girl he’d asked to run away with him had laughed and said ‘Aye, maybe after my shift at Greggs is over’): Silver shone the rooftops, I heard the words ‘you will’. A few other highlights worth pointing out include Frame’s wonderfully dextrous and intricate guitar accompaniment on High Class Music and the fine ballad Tough which opens with the brilliant lines, slowly she dissolves me/ in waves of her and leaves us blurred.

Roddy Frame – Overdosed on Keats. In consequence, it’s an extremely intimate album, where his skills as a guitarist and fine singer are very much to the fore. I never liked having to waste space on a book cover defining where I grew up – formulations such as ‘the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow’ seemed so cumbersome. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. ‘The Bugle Sounds Again’ rhymes ‘love’ with ‘glove’ and ‘above’ and fades to a bugle being played maniacally, while Frame ditches boyish sweetness for boyish bitterness in ‘We Could Send Letters’, complaining ungratefully of being ‘smothered in the sympathy you bleed’. These are slipped in so unobtrusively and naturally, however, that it is only after several listenings that the pattern becomes apparent. The other influences I hear on the record include the great tin pan alley craftsmen songwriters like Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. And so to the songs: Here Comes The Ocean, my first pick from The North Star, has a lovely rolling feel to it and an enigmatic lyric which seems to touch on some of the themes discussed above.

However, from the beginnings of his solo career, it was clear that he had no intention of returning to the treadmill which he had been on in his years with Aztec Camera. His ear is acute.

It's an odd thing. Please If the CD lacks the kind of blistering guitar fireworks that were a hallmark of Frame’s early work with Aztec Camera, this loss is more than made up for by the beautifully understated and subtle approach he displays in his playing right through the album. ‘I’m always, always trying to be the archetypal free,’ he sings, like a boy who has read his Camus as well as his Keats. Like all of his albums since then, the songs on it were very finely crafted and beautifully played by a backing group which included his friends, Clare Kenny on bass (she has also played with Edwyn Collins) and Mark Edwards on keyboards. I always thought that the “Dip” referred to was the Diplomat, as I’d been there a few times with Roddy, Campbell, Davy and Ralds.

Like all of Frame’s previous solo albums, Seven Dials was yet another collection of beautifully put-together songs impeccably performed by a master craftsman. Please 'active' : ''"> And I think that's maybe..." he shrugs, "an indication that I'm an old fogey." One of its singles, "How Men Are", was a clear-eyed piece of gender politics, a New Man anthem ahead of its time. "Money just comes." Fantastic thing for him to do, take the time for a kid like me. A live version of it can be seen here. There may be a hint of profundity in the bridge, but it’s an unabashedly pop lyric. And Queen aren’t the most obviously influential of bands, so to take an ostensibly different approach and use some of the techniques is pretty clever. He was unreachable now. Over time, the name became shorthand for Frame and whichever group of session musicians he happened to be playing with at the time. "Ah, that was when I was taking my stuff round to record shops. Warner Brothers already had the rights to his lyrics. Yet I remember feeling betrayed when one of EK’s most famous sons, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, spoke of being ‘a boy from Glasgow’ once he had achieved the fame that his prodigious talents deserved.

By 15, he was penning ballads, already developing the style that had him compared to American West Coast bands like Love and The Byrds. Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Scotland.

English Garden, my other choice, is one of Frame’s most beautiful ‘break-up songs’ with a beautifully judged minimalist musical accompaniment. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Apart from this, he's almost unnaturally laid back. ", You tell me. "Obviously, there was a backlash against strident feminism, and the backlash seemed to be an ironic, knowing kind of sexism, resurrecting the old Carry On humour. It also features one of his finest lyrics (Used to be mine, I played while she sang/ Said someday we’d drive to Daymer Bay and walk along the sand/ Now in every room a different sorrow hangs/ And the past is like another place, it’s a foreign land). The most insightful comments on all subjects

Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. After some consultation with my friend, fellow Toppermost contributor and Queen expert, David Lewis, we both noticed a hint of the influence of that band on the song. Somewhere in our hearts, there is a star that shines for them! People always bang on about the craft of the songwriter, don't they? Broadly speaking, his solo songs were also generally far more directly folk/folk rock influenced than his previous work had been. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Community

Roddy Frame’s first solo record, the excellent The North Star, was released in 1998, three years after Frestonia had appeared. Create a commenting name to join the debate. In an excellent piece on Surf (which can be read here), Philip Cummins compares it with Paul Simon’s Hearts And Bones and Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel Of Love and claims that all three albums explore “themes of love, heartbreak and identity… skilfully and masterfully”. ‘We met in the summer and walked till the fall,’ Frame sings – which, despite the song’s innocence, gives a sense of his ambition to break America, as I can confirm that nobody in East Kilbride referred to the autumn as the fall. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. The material on his records also became much more pared-back.

Throughout its existence, he remained the key figure in the group as the front man, chief songwriter and final arbiter of its musical direction. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. Aztec Camera: Are you "Oblivious"?(!) Here’s a fine live performance of the song. ", At about 12, he got a stint in an East Kilbride social club with "a bloke about my dad's age who'd played double-bass with Lonnie Donegan. If any old youngster could pen such lines, then precious few could come up with a line as striking as ‘I felt the rain and called it genius’.

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Like those albums, the songs on Surf are very carefully put together to form a clear narrative and a sustained whole. Andrew Shields is a freelance historian, who grew up in the West of Ireland and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. I have previously written here about Roddy Frame’s time with Aztec Camera. And it is good that things got a bit sexier, in a way." Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when So, I have settled on the literally true ‘born in Glasgow’, as that was where the nuns of St Francis Maternity did indeed deliver me, in the vicinity of Ibrox Stadium. "My whole interest was the ballads - people miss out on the beauty of those, things like `The Bewlay Brothers' and `Quicksand'. ‘Walk Out to Winter’ is an exhilarated, visible exhalation in the icy air. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. There would be no return to the routine of regular albums, constant touring and inane promotions which were the lot of the type of ‘chart’ band that they had been. But I'm in two minds. And, hopefully, now someone will persuade Roddy to release some new music soon. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. My ears pricked up when I heard those Postcard label songs, ‘Mattress of Wire’ and ‘Orchid Girl’. His response was – laughter. A few examples of the skill with which he achieves this effect are the lines – heard you were out, SW3/ talking about how you were over me – and – me stuck on The Strand, trying to get through – from the lyric of my first choice from the album, the beautiful jazz influenced ballad, Over You. I can't stand to read how other bands `just jammed, and it was edited later'; I'm very structured. Aztec Camera were a collaboration of TWENTY TWO different musicians who came and went across a fifteen year period but most recognisable for its front and main man, Roddy Frame (born in Scotland in 1964). Good to hear your recollections of that time and place, thanks. Here’s Roddy performing it in Brighton in 2008: This idea of life remaining as normal even for his ex-partner is also subtly suggested by the line – are the trees turning red where you are today – in the same song. to your comment. ", Preternaturally able with instruments, Frame asked a department store Santa for an electric guitar and an amp when he was four, and became obsessed with Bowie soon after. "My father was a great singer. Surprisingly, Warners let him go a couple of years back, and a frisson of turbulence followed; he signed to tiny label, Independiente, and released a lovely album, The North Star, under his own name, but Independiente managed conspicuously little promotion. But I don't think Rod's struggling for ideas in the least. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. The next, Reason For Living, is probably my favourite song from Roddy’s solo career. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

try again, the name must be unique, Please Use the form on the right to contact us.

In some ways, he's practically earned retirement, though that's not on the cards. Your email address will not be published. It's a semi-tone flat. It's not a bad canon, and might entitle anyone to rest on their laurels a bit. Frame was a poetic songster of a high order. Good article, by the way. I remember Neutral Blue rehearsing in the Key Youth Centre. When hope held out its hands today, you laughed and turned and fled. Perhaps our path crossed back then. ‘Release’ remains the album’s high point for me, with its arresting opening that mixes starry-eyed romanticism and earthy anger (as if the girl he’d asked to run away with him had laughed and said ‘Aye, maybe after my shift at Greggs is over’): Silver shone the rooftops, I heard the words ‘you will’. A few other highlights worth pointing out include Frame’s wonderfully dextrous and intricate guitar accompaniment on High Class Music and the fine ballad Tough which opens with the brilliant lines, slowly she dissolves me/ in waves of her and leaves us blurred.

Roddy Frame – Overdosed on Keats. In consequence, it’s an extremely intimate album, where his skills as a guitarist and fine singer are very much to the fore. I never liked having to waste space on a book cover defining where I grew up – formulations such as ‘the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow’ seemed so cumbersome. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. ‘The Bugle Sounds Again’ rhymes ‘love’ with ‘glove’ and ‘above’ and fades to a bugle being played maniacally, while Frame ditches boyish sweetness for boyish bitterness in ‘We Could Send Letters’, complaining ungratefully of being ‘smothered in the sympathy you bleed’. These are slipped in so unobtrusively and naturally, however, that it is only after several listenings that the pattern becomes apparent. The other influences I hear on the record include the great tin pan alley craftsmen songwriters like Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. And so to the songs: Here Comes The Ocean, my first pick from The North Star, has a lovely rolling feel to it and an enigmatic lyric which seems to touch on some of the themes discussed above.

However, from the beginnings of his solo career, it was clear that he had no intention of returning to the treadmill which he had been on in his years with Aztec Camera. His ear is acute.

It's an odd thing. Please If the CD lacks the kind of blistering guitar fireworks that were a hallmark of Frame’s early work with Aztec Camera, this loss is more than made up for by the beautifully understated and subtle approach he displays in his playing right through the album. ‘I’m always, always trying to be the archetypal free,’ he sings, like a boy who has read his Camus as well as his Keats. Like all of his albums since then, the songs on it were very finely crafted and beautifully played by a backing group which included his friends, Clare Kenny on bass (she has also played with Edwyn Collins) and Mark Edwards on keyboards. I always thought that the “Dip” referred to was the Diplomat, as I’d been there a few times with Roddy, Campbell, Davy and Ralds.

Like all of Frame’s previous solo albums, Seven Dials was yet another collection of beautifully put-together songs impeccably performed by a master craftsman. Please 'active' : ''"> And I think that's maybe..." he shrugs, "an indication that I'm an old fogey." One of its singles, "How Men Are", was a clear-eyed piece of gender politics, a New Man anthem ahead of its time. "Money just comes." Fantastic thing for him to do, take the time for a kid like me. A live version of it can be seen here. There may be a hint of profundity in the bridge, but it’s an unabashedly pop lyric. And Queen aren’t the most obviously influential of bands, so to take an ostensibly different approach and use some of the techniques is pretty clever. He was unreachable now. Over time, the name became shorthand for Frame and whichever group of session musicians he happened to be playing with at the time. "Ah, that was when I was taking my stuff round to record shops. Warner Brothers already had the rights to his lyrics. Yet I remember feeling betrayed when one of EK’s most famous sons, Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera, spoke of being ‘a boy from Glasgow’ once he had achieved the fame that his prodigious talents deserved.

By 15, he was penning ballads, already developing the style that had him compared to American West Coast bands like Love and The Byrds. Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Scotland.

English Garden, my other choice, is one of Frame’s most beautiful ‘break-up songs’ with a beautifully judged minimalist musical accompaniment. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Apart from this, he's almost unnaturally laid back. ", You tell me. "Obviously, there was a backlash against strident feminism, and the backlash seemed to be an ironic, knowing kind of sexism, resurrecting the old Carry On humour. It also features one of his finest lyrics (Used to be mine, I played while she sang/ Said someday we’d drive to Daymer Bay and walk along the sand/ Now in every room a different sorrow hangs/ And the past is like another place, it’s a foreign land). The most insightful comments on all subjects

Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. After some consultation with my friend, fellow Toppermost contributor and Queen expert, David Lewis, we both noticed a hint of the influence of that band on the song. Somewhere in our hearts, there is a star that shines for them! People always bang on about the craft of the songwriter, don't they? Broadly speaking, his solo songs were also generally far more directly folk/folk rock influenced than his previous work had been. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Community

Roddy Frame’s first solo record, the excellent The North Star, was released in 1998, three years after Frestonia had appeared. Create a commenting name to join the debate. In an excellent piece on Surf (which can be read here), Philip Cummins compares it with Paul Simon’s Hearts And Bones and Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel Of Love and claims that all three albums explore “themes of love, heartbreak and identity… skilfully and masterfully”. ‘We met in the summer and walked till the fall,’ Frame sings – which, despite the song’s innocence, gives a sense of his ambition to break America, as I can confirm that nobody in East Kilbride referred to the autumn as the fall. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. The material on his records also became much more pared-back.

Throughout its existence, he remained the key figure in the group as the front man, chief songwriter and final arbiter of its musical direction. Roddy Frame is 35, and he's got very good indeed at smoking. Aztec Camera: Are you "Oblivious"?(!) Here’s a fine live performance of the song. ", At about 12, he got a stint in an East Kilbride social club with "a bloke about my dad's age who'd played double-bass with Lonnie Donegan. If any old youngster could pen such lines, then precious few could come up with a line as striking as ‘I felt the rain and called it genius’.

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