THE first time I saw Roddy Frame perform live I was in very good company. His band, Aztec Camera, played one of their earliest gigs at The Bungalow Bar in Paisley on October 21, 1980. They’d been ...
You may remember that Domino reissued Aztec Camera’s classic 1984 debut, High Land Hard Rain, earlier this year. It’s been a good year for fans as frontman Roddy Frame also released a new solo album, ...
The Aztec Camera-man relives his early-'80s glories - slap bass and all... It’s been eight years since Roddy Frame’s last album, Western Skies, and over 30 since his arrival as a precocious prodigy ...
Roddy Frame will play Aztec Camera's debut High Land, Hard Rain in full this December. The former frontman and sole constant member of the Postcard band will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ...
When it appeared in the spring of 1983, Aztec Camera‘s debut album, High Land, Hard Rain, was an acoustic-driven breath of fresh air. Led by teenaged singer/songwriter/guitarist Roddy Frame, the ...
There is a line in White Pony, the opening track on Roddy Frame's fine new album, which says a mouthful. It goes like this: "Sometimes you've got to stop and look around." A simple sentiment, perhaps, ...
Roddy Frame has announced details of new album, Seven Dials. Seven Dials will be released on AED on Monday May 5h 2014. It's Frame's first since Western Skies in 2006, was recorded at West Heath ...
Roddy Frame is a man of few utterances, musical or otherwise, preferring to wait until he has something to say before expressing himself. Consequently, his albums are few and far between. Since ...
As a member of Scottish rock royalty, Roddy Frame has always been at one remove from his peers; somewhat inscrutable, his motivations during the glory years of Aztec Camera were often unclear – ...