My Heart Travels – I Travel
A friend shared this on their Facebook timeline today…I instantly thought of Sir…
Month: July 2016
Agree To Disagree In The World Of Variety
A fan on one of the Simple Minds fan groups on Facebook decided to put their head above the parapet and share their opinion on the Street Fighting Years tour, due to many fans having fond memories of the Roundhay gig in 1989. I was not one of those fans. As you may already know…
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Simple Minds – The Face – October, 1981. Full Scan & Sons/Sister Review.
The Full “Face” article, plus a review of Sons & Sister in the back pages of the mag. Aawww! Please don’t turn your back on me, sir! :-(( Ooh, Sir be wearing a tie! Good bhoy! 🙂 What’s good for the geese…
New Gold Dream – Jim’s Reply To Me – As Art!
I love his reply to me so, so much…still. I don’t know WHY I have never made it an art piece before…but I did today! (At long last!) I was telling him that I had a favourite fragment of the song…right towards the end…this kind of screeching noise (I now know to be Charlie’s guitar,…
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Mind The Birds – (Quick!) Carrion Crow
Bought myself a load of arty stuff (what is now) yesterday. Lots of different media and things. Pencils, charcoals, pastels. So eager to get going (but fairly latish at night – prime time for artisty, it has to be said!), I drew my first “hands on” drawing in a loooong time! Now, ask me to…
The Face – October, 1981.
New acquisition… With his back turned to me. Ah, how life doth imitate art. Proper scan, etc, later. Let’s hope the dreaded BFB is not mentioned!
You Win, Sir. You Win.
Your “cock blocking” has won out. The campaign has fizzled out and ground to a halt. If you were testing me to see how long I would persevere. This is your answer. This long. I just wanted a word back. Just a consideration. An acknowledgement you had taken my request on board and would consider…
Blue And Yellow Tanager
Tried to take my time more with this Brazilian themed bird. It’s found in the tropics of South America appropriately enough, Brazil being one of the countries in which you can see it. This one is predominantly blue and yellow, but has some green too. Think I’m going to quickly run out of yellow/green/blue birds…
This Week’s NGD Lyric Card – Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel
And what he said of my art piece back when I did it. He probably RUES ever acknowledging any of my stuff now. Sorry, sir. All of it was only ever born out of love. The love of the music. The words. The band.