How The Nu-Sonics became Orange Juice

Before they were Orange Juice they were The Nu-Sonics. This is what happened. From Simon Goddard's excellent history of Postcard.

 

'The Nu-Sonics had always been a strange mutation of punk aspirations, an eccentric work-in-progress casting fuzzy feedback shadows whose edges blurred between the shifting shapes of Jonathan Richman, Johnny Ramone and Rhoda Morgenstern. But the sound of Orange Juice was now settling into its own hue, a deep shade of newness coalescing in the streaks between Edwyn's primary colours of Jonathan Richman, The Velvet Underground, Motown and the scintillating disco of Chic. A blazingly strnge sound which James further embellished with his odd country twangs, a fretboard Morse-code  tapping from Memphis via Bearsden from the lonely telegram of a young man who'd fallen in love with The Last Picture Show and never recovered. They sounded like no other band in Glasgow. Like no other band on Earth.'