May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Might as well get it over with. It really *is* “rob a bank” time. Or…time to sit some gigs out ???? Not sure my heart will be able to take it either way… Swindon – close to a friend. Taunton – also possible…near-ish same said friend. Leeds, twice! Close to a friend – and what…
It snowed ALL morning along the East Midlands and into East Anglia today (Dec 10th). Luton copped several inches of snow, as did Bedford, the location of this year’s final and quite unexpected gig. That of Alexis Taylor and Green Gartside. The weather did its best to deter us going…but no…my partner had waited over…
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I love the writer’s frustration in not being able to see them play. Esp. the second of the gigs he wanted to go to. Geez, you had to be over 21 to get into Saints And Sinners?! Look at the median age of the guys in the band! What a crock! Bloody hell!
I have always loved the final few seconds of the Love Song video. As all the other patrons are trapped in the nightclub by an invisible barrier…Jim and the boys just walk on through without a “Kerr in the world”. Lol. Jim even gives the patrons around him a cursory (or should that be KERRsory?…
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012…not quite a 5×5 tour set, but near enough minus them performing Moscow Underground, Waterfront, See The Lights and Don’t You. This festival is a FREE ADMISSION festival! OMG…I’d have DIED to see them for nowt! At the 18 minute 55 second mark, there is a rather sexy AF version of Celebrate…
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Was looking around for ideas for this week’s “weekend whirligig”, when I spies this! (No Hokusai scarf! Come on, Sir! Give it an outing…please? 🙁 )
The man who received my Turbett Kerr painting is indeed quite a dab hand himself. Here are a couple of pieces he has shared with me, posted by kind permission. Thanks, Stuart!
Seriously! The man was posting about his mum…and you post THIS in reply? THERE’S A TIME AND PLACE…AND THAT WASN’T IT! F*** me! Some people…
There surely must be some kind of data anomaly because I really would have expected to see Wonderful In Young Life and This Earth That You Walk Upon in the top tracks…as well as Spirited Away being in the Top 100 playlist…but, hey, there you go.
The Simple Minds online bible that is the Dream Giver Redux site (unlike this sorry excuse for a fan page/glorified Jim Kerr online ogling sycophantic ninny’s page) has quite a new stash of information on the upcoming Walk Between Worlds release… You can read it by clicking DREAM GIVER REDUX NEWS Also more info can…
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