Edwyn Collins

Four songs were demoed at Battery, and Grace took these around the record companies. Numerous business lunches later, Edwyn was better fed but no better off — apart from a Teac 8-track. "Chrysalis, they're insane. They just gave me £2000 to buy a 388, that 8-track with its own desk. This was to do demoes and the contract was that if they didn't like the demoes, I got to keep the machine. They didn't like them. I was learning how to use the 388 at the time, which might explain it, as I'm not the world's best home recordist."

Edwyn wrote 'Don't Shilly Shally', his first solo single, just after the demise of Orange Juice, using his 1965 Telecaster, a Drumatix and a TEAC 244 portastudio. "I had this relentless driving rhythm all the way through, with the bass drum on the first three beats and the snare on the last.

Edwyn wrote 'Don't Shilly Shally', his first solo single, just after the demise of Orange Juice, using his 1965 Telecaster, a Drumatix and a TEAC 244 portastudio. "I had this relentless driving rhythm all the way through, with the bass drum on the first three beats and the snare on the last.