As A Wise Person Once Told Me…
If you don’t ask, you don’t get…
Month: December 2017
Merry Christmas From Priptona
Although this is essentially a blog from a personal angle, and not meant to be seen as a professionally run Simple Minds blog…by ANY means, I am humbled and somewhat dumbstruck that I have a readership and visitors to this site. To those who subscribe, and to those who visit, I wish you all a…
Had To Have A Play
This one I need to enquire about. Pretty certain it is one of Virginia’s (hence the photo credit).
Oh, This Is Just ACE!
Brilliant stuff!
Over Ten Years In The Waiting…
I have wanted to see Franz Ferdinand since I first got into them waaaaay back in around 2004. Very nearly got tickets to see them play with Sparks, but then had a change of heart. But THIS was too good an opportunity to pass up! The new album on CD *AND* A TICKET FOR £12!???…
UNEARTHED JOY!
I LITERALLY WANT TO CRY! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS AFTER ALL THIS TIME! AND…I COULD HAVE HAD A COPY. FUCK YOU RARE RECORDS FOR GETTING MY COPY LOST IN THE POST (SUPPOSEDLY!) AND THAT PHOTO IN THE SPREAD IS SSOOOOOO A VIRGINIA TURBETT…I WILL PUT MY HOUSE ON IT (I am sssssoooooo asking…
The Boy King Is White – And Reigns Supreme Upon His Throne
I must get me a copy of this magazine…it’s called Chart Beat. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it. This is inside issue number 19…early 1983. I detect a visit to eBay at some point in the future…
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Lyceum, London – 18/12/1983
A Sunday, pre-Christmas gig – PAKCED with songs from the yet-to-be-released Sparkle In The Rain. Imagine them doing that now? Us getting gigs with half of Walk Between Worlds airing BEFORE release date? Okay…it could be argued they did that slightly with Acoustic…but nothing on the album was new material, so it doesn’t count. A…
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Well…Don’t It Look Good?
A shame I can’t make any more. The fans want it. Like…really!
Magic Update
After multiple listens to the song, I now think I need to slightly alter the lyrics, so I have updated them, and my lyric art piece, accordingly (and while at it, gave the lyric art piece a subtle improvement…though to be fair, it was pretty perfect as it was) 🙂 Magic Now I believe in…