Singer Edwyn Collins announces final tour
Collins told BBC Scotland News he had decided the run of dates in September and October would be his last because "I'd be a very old man by the time the next one [tour] rolled around, and that's not for me."The singer added that he would miss "the audience love, my beautiful band and crew".He said he would keep making music as "I can't stop writing and recording. For fun, you know?".Collins was left unable to walk, talk or read after the stroke and haemorrhages in 2005, and spent several months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug.However, he recovered enough to release a further five albums, including the forthcoming Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation - his 10th overall release.The 11-track album was recorded at his Clashnarrow Studio in Helmsdale, the Sutherland village where he has lived for many years with his wife Grace.
Collins formed his first band the Nu-Sonics while still a teenager, and they played their first gig at Glasgow's Satellite City nightclub in 1977.The group later became Orange Juice and enjoyed a Top 10 hit with Rip It Up in 1983. The quartet broke up two years after that, but were cited as an influence by many bands that followed, including Franz Ferdinand.In 1995 solo track A Girl Like You became a worldwide hit, topping the charts in Belgium and Iceland and cracking the top 40 in America. Collins also worked as a producer and published a book of his illustrations of British birds.His farewell tour will begin at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow on 29 September, before going to Buxton, Bath, Southampton, Brighton, London, Norwich and Manchester, before ending at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle on 8 October.
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