“I had a stroke you know, and it’s affected me deeply,†says Edwyn Collins to the hushed Shepherd’s Bush Empire crowd. “I’m working every day on it though,†he promises, “and I’m recovering my progress. Gradually, I’m up and up.â€
This last sentence is delivered with a broad smile as Collins sits on a small amp in centre stage. His report on the illness he has suffered is brief, partly because of the effects it has had on his speech, but also because he is intent on giving his audience as much of the music they came for as possible.
In reality, the short story is incredibly modest, because the stroke that Collins refers to actually left him unable to walk or talk, let alone play the guitar.
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“I had a stroke you know, and it’s affected me deeply,†says Edwyn Collins to the hushed Shepherd’s Bush Empire crowd. “I’m working every day on it though,†he promises, “and I’m recovering my progress. Gradually, I’m up and up.â€
This last sentence is delivered with a broad smile as Collins sits on a small amp in centre stage. His report on the illness he has suffered is brief, partly because of the effects it has had on his speech, but also because he is intent on giving his audience as much of the music they came for as possible.
In reality, the short story is incredibly modest, because the stroke that Collins refers to actually left him unable to walk or talk, let alone play the guitar.
