Editing Iain Banks (section)

===Theatre===
Banks was involved in the stage production ''The Curse of Iain Banks'', written by Maxton Walker<ref name="Gilded Balloon"/> and performed at the [[Edinburgh Fringe]] festival in 1999. Banks collaborated frequently with its soundtrack composer [[Gary Lloyd]], for instance on a song collection they co-composed as a tribute to the fictional band ''Frozen Gold'' from Banks's novel ''Espedair Street''. Lloyd also scored for a spoken word and music production of his novel ''The Bridge'',<ref name="Lloyd"/> which Banks himself voiced and which featured a cast of 40 musicians, released on CD by Codex Records in 1996. Lloyd recorded Banks for including in the play as a disembodied voice of himself in one of the cast member's dreams. Lloyd explained his collaboration with Banks on their first versions of ''Espedair Street'' (later versions being dated between 2005 and 2013) in a ''Guardian'' article prior to the opening of ''The Curse of Iain Banks'':

<blockquote>When he [Banks] first played them to me, I think he was worried that they might not be up to scratch (some of them dated back to 1973 and had never been heard). He needn't have worried. They're fantastic. We're slaving away to get the songs to the stage where we can go into the studio and make a demo. Iain bashes out melodies on his state-of-the-art Apple Mac in Edinburgh and sends them down to me in Chester where I put them onto my Atari.<ref name="Lloyd"/></blockquote>