Orange Juice

Hailing from the middle-class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, Orange Juice stood out from the start. 

Edwyn Collins wore plastic sandals and a Davy Crockett hat. Guitarist and co-singer James Kirk sported a Barbour wax jacket. Bassist David McClymont's trousers and hair appeared to date from the Spanish Civil War, and drummer Steven Daly looked like the neat, bookish civil servant he was. It was a rebellion against rock's macho wardrobe, and it wound their rivals up a treat.

What Orange Juice had over the majority of Glasgow bands was their record label buddy Alan Horne. 50% neurotic weirdo and 50% genius pop aesthetician (0% business strategist) he had founded Postcard Records to release Orange Juice's Falling and Laughing. Hot on its heels came the galloping Blue Boy and suddenly - thanks to bravura notices in the press - Orange Juice were a hip item.

But with album tracks already in the can, Orange Juice Mk I were already falling apart. Attention had made Horne insufferable. Collins wanted commercial success. Daly did too, but the band would oust him anyway. Kirk resisted the switch to Polydor and sabotaged an A&R-attended show by turning up in an undertaker's coat and playing without his guitar plugged in.

Orange Juice polished the Postcard album tracks for Polydor and released most of them as You Can't Hide Your Love Forever in February 1982. Immediately Daly and Kirk were gone and Collins' brief chart pop moment beckoned, while the volatile Horner released great records by Aztec Camera before securing a cadet label - Swamplands - with Polygram.

Orange Juice went on to inspire a flotilla of limp-wristed indie bands from The Wedding Present to Belle & Sebastian - some actively courting the adjective "twee".