Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
Scottish rockers ORANGE JUICE were honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at the Tartan Clef Awards in Glasgow on Saturday (22Nov08).
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
FORMER Orange Juice singer Edwyn Collins is set to join the songwriting elite by accepting an Ivor Novello award.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Scottish indie band Orange Juice lift the lifetime achievement honour at the Tartan Clef awards in Glasgow.
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Ben Myers: One of Britain's most hedonistic record labels has set up a fishing blog
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins once harboured a secret dream of updating the prints in Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles , but let this dream fall by the wayside to become a rock star. But when the former Orange Juice frontman suffered a brain haemorrhage in February 2005 (his recovery from which was documented in this year's touching BBC special Home Again ), it was...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Stuart Maconie will be pleased. After Edwyn Collins recovered from the two brain haemorrhages that almost killed him, he's getting back together with his Orange Juice group. The group are set to play the 2008 Tartan Clef Music Awards on...
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Edwyn Collins' legendary 1980s band Orange Juice are reported to have reformed.
Frankosonic (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Over on the Rip It Up mailing list, the guitar player from The Siddeleys asked for an alternate version of the Orange Juice track "Consolation Prize" from the 1st album. In quite possibly the the twee-est moment of my life, I'm only too happy to oblige. Here is an Edwyn Collins acoustic session and radio interview from 1992 featuring Consolation Prize, Felicity & My Dying Day (the interview was promoting...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Legendary Glaswegian post-punk/new wave band Orange Juice is reuniting for the first time since splitting up in 1982. Spurred to reform after lead singer Edwyn Collins suffered a brain hemmorhage in 2005, the band will be honored by the charity group Nordoff-Robbins, which helps fund music therapy and assisted in Collins’ recovery. [SundayMail.co.uk] Country songwriter Horace [...]
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Orange Juice Orange Juice , the wonderful Glasgow jangle merchants that influenced far more great bands than SoundsXP can muster fingers and toes to count, are reforming. Just three years after frontman EDWYN COLLINS almost died from a brain haemorrhage, the group will reunite to play a one-off gig for the Nordoff-Robbins Scotland charity in Scotland next month. The charity raises money to fund music...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
JANET JACKSON's U.S. tour has been dealt another setback - rapper LL COOL J has quit as the support act for the Rock Witchu roadshow.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Rock band ORANGE JUICE are to reform - just three years after frontman EDWYN COLLINS almost died from a brain haemorrhage.
Idolator (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Please enjoy this clip of the fine Scottish pop outfit Orange Juice playing "Rip It Up" in honor of their impending reunion, which will take place when the band—and lead singer Edwyn Collins, who suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2005—is honored by the UK music-therapy outfit Nordoff-Robbins in Scotland next month. The whole idea of Collins even playing music again seemed like a very distant possibility...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Rock band ORANGE JUICE are to reform - just three years after frontman EDWYN COLLINS almost died from a brain haemorrhage. The group will reunite to play a one-off gig ...
Assistant Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The story of the most recent few years of Edwyn Collins’ life is, despite being fairly traumatic, ultimately a cheering tale – for although his slow recovery from a terribly serious stroke in 2005 has been painful and limited, he has overcome huge odds to regain power over his life and his art, and is as a consequence once more playing live, writing songs, singing and performing. But the process of...
