The Soundtrack4Life Concert Series: Aztec Camera & Roddy Frame

A double shot of East Kilbride's favourite Son Roddy Frame.

In action firstly with Aztec Camera at Aston University in 1983 and filmed by Whistle Test for the BBC. It was broadcast three days later and surprisingly has never been repeated!

And second up a collection from the 2014 Seven Dials Tour with Roddy backed by a band. Thirty one years between the performances and it just goes to show that when you are a great songwriter and an exceptional performer you don't miss a beat!

Whistle Test On The Road

Aston University

13th December 1983

Setlist

 01 Back Door To Heaven
02 Walk Out To Winter
03 Orchid Girl
04 Back On Board
05 The Bugle Sounds Again
06 The Boy Wonders
07 Release
08 Oblivious
09 Set The Killing Free
10 We Could Send Letters

Seven Dials Tour 2014

Edited together entirely from audience shot footage in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Manchester, this is a record of the full December 2014 shows performed by Roddy Frame.

This video includes versions of all of the songs that he performed during his short UK tour

Setlist

01 Oblivious
02 Deep And Wide And Tall
03 Bigger Brighter Better
04 Forty Days Of Rain
05 White Pony
06 Postcard
07 Working In A Goldmine
08 In Orbit
09 On The Avenue
10 Let Your Love Decide
11 Down The Dip
12 We Could Send Letters
13 The Bugle Sounds Again
14 The Boy Wonders
15 Into The Sun
16 Walk Out To Winter
17 The Crying Scene
18 Somewhere In My Heart
19 Rainy Season
20 Killermont Street
21 Back On Board
22 Mattress Of Wire

Happy Birthday Roddy Frame

Born on this day in 1964

Happy Birthday

Roddy Frame.

Roddy Frame - Seven Dials (5th May 2014)

It's been eight years since 'Western Skies' saw the light of day, eight years! Roddy Frame is obviously not a man in a hurry and teaming up with AED (Edwyn Collins' label) he has finally unleashed 10 songs upon us to thrill our wee souls.

Reading a stack of reviews for the album it has been nice to see how positive the new project has been received. The Art Desk, The Guardian, The Scotsman, Any Decent Music and Uncut have all given it a large thumbs up.

Frame reminds us all that he is one of the great underrated songwriters with this album. As one review said, "There's not a dud on it."

This one gets added to the list for possible Album of the Year.

Tracklist

White Pony (BBC The Review Show 2013).

Postcard

Into the Sun

Rear View Mirror

In Orbit.

White Pony
Postcard
Into The Sun
Rear View Mirror
In Orbit
Forty Days Of Rain
English Garden
On The Waves
The Other Side
From A Train
Read more at http://www.uncut.co.uk/node/19941#bTQs43YK8tMFUfjp.99

Forty Days of Rain (Audio).

English Garden

On The Waves

The Other Side

From A Train.

Roddy Frame - High Land Hard Rain 30th Anniversary Live at The Royal Concert Hall Glasgow 4th December 2013

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary since the release of the debut album, 'High Land, Hard Rain', Roddy Frame hit the road for three shows and with a full band to the delight of audiences in London, Manchester and Glasgow.

The review in The Guardian for the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, show in London was exceptionally positive in it's praise for Frame and the album. It's hard to actually believe that Roddy was a mere 19 year old lad when he released it!

Thankfully someone has had the wisdom to bring together all the clips of the set on You Tube and edit them together to give us one of the best 104 minutes of our lives.

01 - Birth Of The True
02 - How Men Are
03 - Small World
04 - Spanish Horses
05 - Green Jacket Grey
06 - Orchid Girl
07 - The Spirit Shows
08 - Just Like Gold
09 - Oblivious
10 - The Boy Wonders
11 - Walk Out To Winter
12 - The Bugle Sounds Again
13 - We Could Send Letters
14 - Pillar To Post
15 - Release
16 - Lost Outside The Tunnel
17 - Back On Board
18 - Down The Dip
19 - Killermont Street
20 - Bigger Brighter Better
21 - Somewhere In My Heart
22 - Portastudio

Tidy Tune #29: Bigger Brighter Better - Roddy Frame.

Aztec Camera Expanded Releases

Preceded by the singles Pillar To Post and Oblivious , and the NME cassette release of We Could Send Letters , High Land, Hard Rain was released in April 1983, not long after Roddy Frame's 19th birthday, and followed by Walk Out To Winter . The album and singles were originally released on the Rough Trade label, before being taken on by major WEA, who re-released Oblivious to great effect.

The bonus tracks are the non-album singles sides, including two 12 mixes of Oblivious and a lengthy mix of Walk Out To Winter . Released 27th August.

 HIGH LAND, HARD RAIN
1. Oblivious
2. The Boy Wonders
3. Walk Out To Winter
4. The Bugle Sounds Again
5. We Could Send Letters
6. Pillar To Post
7. Release
8. Lost Outside The Tunnel
9. Back On Board
10. Down The Dip

BONUS TRACKS
11. Queen s Tattoos
12. Haywire
13. Orchid Girl
14. Set The Killing Free
15. Oblivious [12 mix]
16. Walk Out To Winter [12 extended version]
17. Oblivious [12 extended remix] 

 In the wake of the success of first album Hard Land, Hard Rain , WEA brought in Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler to produce the follow-up at Air Studios in London. Knife was released September 1984, accompanied by the hit single All I Need Is Everything .

This reissue features the non-album singles sides, including two versions of Van Halen's Jump , as well as five songs recorded live at The Dominion in London in October 1984, originally released across two singles. Released 27th August.

 KNIFE
1. Still On Fire
2. Just Like The USA
3. Head Is Happy (Heart s Insane)
4. The Back Door To Heaven
5. All I Need Is Everything
6. Backwards And Forwards
7. The Birth Of The True
8. Knife

BONUS TRACKS:
9. All I Need Is Everything [7 edit]
10. Jump
11. All I Need Is Everything [remix]
12. Jump [Loaded version] 

If High Land Hard Rain made him an indie hero and heavyweight music press favourite, and Knife saw him tentatively embraced by the rock establishment, then Aztec Camera's third long player Love is the album on which Roddy Frame became a bona fide pop star. Somewhere In My Heart was the first to crack the all-important Top Ten, and Frame found himself, whether he liked it or not, the property of the Smash Hits generation. Also included are the singles How Men Are and Deep And Wide And Tall . This reissue contains all the non-album singles sides, including five remixes and three live recordings. Released 3rd September.

LOVE
1. Deep And Wide And Tall
2. How Men Are
3. Everybody Is A Number One
4. More Than A Law
5. Somewhere In My Heart
6. Working In A Goldmine
7. One And One
8. Paradise
9. Killermont Street

Disc 2
BONUS TRACKS
1. Deep And Wide And Tall [Breakdown Mix]
2. Bad Education
3. The Red Flag
4. Killermont Street [live]
5. Pillar To Post [live]
6. Somewhere In My Heart [12 remix]
7. Everybody Is A Number One [Boston '86 Version]
8. Somewhere In My Heart [The alternate mix]
9. I Threw It All Away [live]
10. Working In A Goldmine [sax version]  

 Five years after singing about The Clash, Roddy Frame found himself singing with Mick Jones on Good Morning Britain , a Top 20 hit and the centrepiece of the fourth Aztec Camera album, released in June 1990. This reissue contains all the different mixes of the Big Audio Dynamite-influenced song, along with the single The Crying Scene and the non-album singles sides, including a duet with Edwyn Collins of his Orange Juice song Consolation Prize , recorded live at Glasgow Barrowlands. Released 3rd September.

STRAY
1. Stray
2. The Crying Scene
3. Get Outta London
4. Over My Head
5. Good Morning Britain
6. How It Is
7. The Gentle Kind
8. Notting Hill Blues
9. Song For A Friend

Disc 2
BONUS TRACKS
1. Salvation
2. True Colours
3. Consolation Prize [live]
4. Do I Love You?
5. Good Morning Britain [7 mix]
6. Good Morning Britain [Laylow Posse Hypno-Mix/Kitsch n Sync mix]
7. Good Morning Britain [Laylow Posse Hypnomental/instrumental mix]
8. Good Morning Britain [Laylow Posse Hypno-edit/vocal remix]
9. Good Morning Britain [Mendelsohn Single mix]
10. Good Morning Britain [Morning Acid mix] 

Produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dreamland was Aztec Camera's fifth album, released in May 1993, and preceded by the singles Spanish Horses and Dream Sweet Dreams . The two editions of both singles featured thirteen songs recorded on one night at Ronnie Scott s now gathered onto a single CD.

The extra bonus track If Paradise Is) Half As Nice was recorded for the NME s Ruby Trax cassette as a duet with the song s original vocalist, Amen Corner s Andy Fairweather-Low.  Released 10th September.

DREAMLAND
1. Birds
2. Safe in Sorrow
3. Black Lucia (Safe in Sorrow is the 2nd song in the video)
4. Let Your Love Decide
5. Spanish Horses
6. Dream Sweet Dreams
7. Pianos and Clocks
8. Sister Ann
9. Vertigo
10. Valium Summer
11. The Belle of the Ball
Bonus track:
12. (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice [Aztec Camera with Andy Fairweather-Low]

Disc 2
LIVE AT RONNIE SCOTT S
Recorded at Ronnie Scott s Club, London, 23rd June 1991
1. Birth Of The True
2. Song For A Friend
3. Killermont Street
4. Spanish Horses
5. Stray
6. The Bugle Sounds Again
7. Dolphins
8. How Men Are
9. Sister Ann
10. Good Morning Britain
11. Mattress Of Wire
12. Let Your Love Decide
13. Orchid Girl
Bonus track:
14. Just Like The USA [live at Sala Apollo, Barcelona]  

 

Released in November 1995, Frestonia was Roddy Frame's last album under the Aztec Camera banner. It was produced by the legendary team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley at Westside Studios, which were located in Frestonia in Notting Hill.

The bonus tracks are four live recordings issued across the two editions of the album's sole single Sun. Released 10th September.

FRESTONIA
1. Rainy Season
2. Sun
3. Crazy
4. On The Avenue
5. Imperfectly
6. Debutante
7. Beautiful Girl
8. Phenomenal World
9. Method of Love
10. Sunset

BONUS TRACKS
Live At The Phoenix Festival, July 1995
11. The Crying Scene
12. Black Lucia
13. We Could Send Letters
14. Rainy Season 

 

 Edsel is proud to announce its reissue programme of all six albums by Roddy Frame's Aztec Camera, originally released between 1983 and 1995, and now issued in deluxe casebound books with bonus tracks, the lyrics, and annotation by Uncut journalist Terry Staunton.