My mate Jimmy gave me an Orange Juice single. Not one of my favourite tracks it ended up the pile to sell . (Unfortunately I’ve gone back and bought back a lot of those albums and singles in the intervening years). Jimmy came round one night and saw the single in that pile and scribbled on the picture sleeve “never sell this you bastard…James”. So now I couldn’t sell it.
A few years later I was managing the band Captain Cocoa (who featured a young Dave O’Neil of comedy fame) The band who were big Orange Juice fans saw the single and got very excited to see it signed in such a familiar way by James (James Kirk being the OJ’s lead guitarist). So I told them of my trip to Scotland and how I met up with the guitarist etc. Better story all round. I can’t remember if I ever owned up.
Orange Juice were another of the bands I collected all their work. Blue Boy was the first single and it knocked me sideways. They followed it up a couple more singles on Postcard Records. And then an album “You Can’t hide Your Love Forever” then I lost interest. But I still love those first recordings. They just seem independently magical.
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