Bookies are offering odds on which Scottish retro rock stars will be the next to get the band back together.

Oasis’s relaunch has grabbed the ­headlines, but combos including The Bluebells, Altered Images and The Soup Dragons are also gigging again.

Now McBookie has drawn up a list of other estranged pop groups fans would love to see belting out their old hits.

Favourites to reform next year are Aztec Camera, who had a string of chart tunes four decades ago, including ­Oblivious and Somewhere In My Heart.

Aztec Camera Scottish pop group singer Roddie Frame 1988 on stage in London

Frontman Roddy Frame, from East Kilbride, toured with a backing band in 2013 to mark 30 years since their debut album High Land, Hard Rain.

And stalwarts of the early line-ups are still involved in music, including bassist Campbell Owens, a lecturer in Glasgow.

Orange Juice, from Bearsden, Glasgow, had a huge hit in 1983 with Rip It Up and were banned from Top of the Pops after bassist David McClymont fell into the audience. They split in 1985 and lead singer Edwyn Collins is believed to have rebuffed pleas to reform.

Cocteau Twins from Grangemouth disintegrated when singer Elizabeth Fraser and guitarist Robin Guthrie split as partners in 1997 and a reunion tour in 2005 was cancelled at the last minute.

Edinburgh folk group The Incredible String Band last released an album 50 years ago but have reformed and toured several times, most recently in 2006.

Original members Robin Williamson and Mike Heron are both in their 80s.

McBookie’s Paul Petrie said: “There are some retro festivals now where everyone on stage must have arrived using their bus pass.

“But if bands like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice reformed, they would be selling out venues across Scotland.”

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