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"Not a man to rush things, Roddy Frame releases only his fourth solo album next month. Seven Dials is available via his long-time friend Edwyn Collins&amp;#039;s AED label, and Digital Spy got on the phone with Roddy to talk about the new record, his old ones, and more.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never been one for sticking to schedules, there are lots of gaps in my CV!&amp;quot; Frame said of the wait between albums. &amp;quot;This time around, I just felt I had enough nice songs. I&amp;#039;d put a little band together a couple of years ago that sounded great. &amp;quot;My very good friend Grace [Maxwell] who works with Edwyn Collins, who&amp;#039;s Edwyn Collins&amp;#039; partner, she said, &amp;#039;Why don&amp;#039;t you come and try recording at our place, we&amp;#039;ve started a new label.. &amp;#039; &amp;quot;It was all happy serendipity really. They&amp;#039;d been my friends since I was a teenager, they&amp;#039;re like family really, so it doesn&amp;#039;t feel like I&amp;#039;m signing up to anything. &amp;quot;It doesn&amp;#039;t feel like you&amp;#039;re dealing with a record company, it&amp;#039;s just putting a record out with your mates.&amp;quot;  He added: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s weird really. When I met Edwyn I think I was 16 and he was 21, so he was five years older, which was a big gap. &amp;quot;All these years later, here I am, back on his label, it&amp;#039;s just like the old days. And he&amp;#039;s still five years older, that dynamic never changes! &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s never changed. It&amp;#039;s a beautiful thing really. It&amp;#039;s a lovely place to end up.&amp;quot; Asked about performing with Collins during the Orange Juice frontman&amp;#039;s live return after his 2005 stroke, Frame said: &amp;quot;It was amazing. It&amp;#039;s been so inspiring, seeing Edwyn&amp;#039;s journey. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t know if he was going to make it or not. I can remember going to see him in the hospital when he couldn&amp;#039;t move, he couldn&amp;#039;t speak. &amp;quot;A couple of years later, to be standing on stage with him, the feeling was incredible. The feeling from the audience was brilliant.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve been playing his songs since I was a teenager, so I was able to step in and play guitar for a little bit. I sort of became his right hand, literally, became his guitar player. &amp;quot;I had to try and interpret what he used to do. It was an amazing experience to be involved in.&amp;quot;      Edwyn Collins interview: &amp;#039;The quest for indie world domination Asked about playing Aztec Camera&amp;#039;s debut High Land, Hard Rain in full last year, Frame said: &amp;quot;It was brilliant for me... those shows were like a dream. &amp;quot;We just booked them, they sold, they were in beautiful places, and to top it all, Campbell Owens, the bass player from Aztec Camera back in the day, he came to the Glasgow gig, and he loved it. He gave it his blessing, so that was the cherry on top for me.&amp;quot; Of the possibility of reforming Aztec Camera - who split in 1995 - Frame said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not averse to it, I wouldn&amp;#039;t say no to anything. I wouldn&amp;#039;t discount anything, I say no to most things, but I wouldn&amp;#039;t discount anything completely. Why not? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got an open mind, it&amp;#039;s all up for grabs, it&amp;#039;s all there. I don&amp;#039;t have any aversion to nostalgia - I love nostalgia!&amp;quot;  Asked if the songs from that era are ripe for re-evaluation, Frame said:&amp;quot; Absolutely, for instance, [The Fall&amp;#039;s] Live at the Witch Trials, that came out in &amp;#039;79. &amp;quot;I was a huge fan of that album when it came out, it was like my album at the time. They&amp;#039;ve put out so many records in between, that you kind of get used to them. They&amp;#039;re like a British institution &amp;quot;But I think that&amp;#039;s one album - if he went back and played that live, man, I would be the first in line to buy a ticket.&amp;quot; Quizzed on the changes in the industry via technology from when he started, Frame said: &amp;quot;I think in a way this is the indie dream come true. &amp;quot;I used to go through the box of indie singles at my local record store, and flick through The Raincoats and The Fall and pragVEC and all that stuff.  &amp;quot;People were trying to get their own little records out... Scritti Politti were putting out records. They demystified the whole process for making records. This is that come to fruition. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s an amazing time, but the way it&amp;#039;s been democratised is a funny thing, because I think sometimes it&amp;#039;s harder to wade through and find the jewels in amongst it all.&amp;quot; Of the financial challenges it brings to new artists, he added: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the thing that bothers me. If you were sort of half-good in my day, then you&amp;#039;d get an advance of some sort to live on, while you trundled about doing your gigs. I don&amp;#039;t know how young bands live. How do they live? &amp;quot;I think I was very lucky, I think we came up at an amazing time. But you know what, whatever happens, I just look at young people and they&amp;#039;re so principled and inspired and everything, compared to us old farts. &amp;quot;I just think that whatever it is, they&amp;#039;ll make it good because young people&amp;#039;s energy is amazing.&amp;quot; Roddy Frame&amp;#039;s new album Seven Dials is released on May 5 via AED Records. He plays London&amp;#039;s Shepherd&amp;#039;s Bush Empire on May 22 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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