FOCUS, RODDY IT'S AZTEC CAMERA

Roddy Frame must be wearing contact lenses. I mean, how could a guy who’s just old enough to drink in any state he wants to have achieved the same kind of critical admiration of a John Lennon, Elton John and Elvis Costello without being something of a spiritual four-eyes? Well, sir, the focus point of Glasgow’s Aztec Camera is offstage and sitting across from me—in a paisley shirt that does not match the floral sofa—and the only thing I can see in his eyes is a perverse little twinkle.