Paul Quinn began his career in music at Glasgow University in the early 1980s, when he started singing in West End clubs with Aztec Camera as his backing band. A childhood friend of Edwyn Collins, Paul became acquainted with Postcard Records boss Alan Horne and went on to record backing vocals for Orange Juice, as well as scoring critical acclaim as the lead singer in Bourgie Bourgie. After leaving Bourgie Bourgie on the brink of success, Paul collaborated with Edwyn Collins again on Alan Horne’s Punk Rock Hotel soundtrack and also with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure fame – on the single “One Day” In the 1990s, Quinn and Horne put together The Independent Group. A band featuring some of Glasgow’s finest musicians. James Kirk (guitar, Orange Juice) Blair Cowan (keyboards, Lloyd Cole) Tony Soave, (drums, The Silencers) Campbell Owens (bass, Aztec Camera) Robert Hodgens (guitar, The Bluebells) Mick Slaven (guitar, Del Amitri) Skip Reid (drums, The Associates) Andy Alston (keyboards, Del Amitri) Two critically acclaimed LPs were released on Postcard Records in 1992 and 1994, along with a single “Stupid Thing” which received three ‘Single Of The Week’ awards in the British music papers. A final single "Tiger Tiger" in 1995, was a collaboration with the Nectarine No.9 In 2021 a deluxe vinyl boxset was released, featuring all of the above plus an album of unreleased studio and live recordings. Limited to 300 copies it sold out in 24 hours.