Saturday 24 January 2009

It was getting seriously 80s/90s Glasgow indie-pop in rehearsal today, as at one point we had Edwyn Collins, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub, and Duglas T Stewart from the BMX Bandits all singing. We also stuck our head around the door of Sly & Robbie's rehearsal room next door to see how it should be done. That Bitty McLean can really sing ...

Favourite moments in our rehearsal included Raymond's doubt as to whether he should bring an acoustic guitar for Place in My Heart, to which Douglas Macintyre replied: 'It's semi-acoustic, and it's out of tune, that's perfect!'  Never having really been an Orange Juice fan, these intricacies of music history had passed me by, but I was quite relieved that Edwyn didn't seem to mind me playing stylophone all the way through What Presence.