Roddy Frame
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Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera in Los Angeles – 1987
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Roddy Frame |
| Born |
29 January 1964 East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Genres | Indie pop, new wave, rock, pop, folk, post-punk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica |
| Labels | 1980–present |
| Associated acts | Aztec Camera, Edwyn Collins, Ryuichi Sakamoto |
| Website | RoddyFrame.com |
Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s New Wave band Aztec Camera, and has undertaken a solo career since the dissolution of the band. In November 2013, journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: "Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent, melodic, wistful Scotpop."
Since the end of the Aztec Camera project, Frame has released four solo albums, the last of which is the 2014 album Seven Dials.
Frame was born in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland UK. Frame explained that East Kilbride was a decent place to grow up in, with grassed areas, and was not a "slum". Frame was surrounded by music from a very young age, as his older sisters were music fans and listened to a great number of artists, such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Frame explained in 2014 that he started to learn guitar playing at a very early age: "Yeah, I started learning guitar when I was about four years old. I was playing the thing when I was around nine or ten ... I was just completely crazy about it [guitar] by the time I was four or five years old." During his early years playing guitar, Frame frequently listened to Wilko Johnson and was able to play many of Johnson's songs as a result.
As a child and adolescent, Frame was inspired by a variety of musical influences, including David Bowie, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, Brian Eno and Love. Following the advent of the punk subculture, Frame states that he was drawn to it, as "it said, 'Anyone can do it. You can form a band.' ... It was liberating."
Frame was attracted to the fashion sense of punk bands like the New York Dolls and The Sex Pistols, but explained his teenage dilemma in his late 30s: "Where am I going to buy clothes like that? It's not going to happen." Frame subsequently referred to the band The Fall and its foremost member Mark E. Smith:
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