May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The poll results are in and Catherine is in the Top 10 of female vocalists, as voted for by Prog magazine readers. Should have been No. 1! Come on! Seriously?! Congratulations, Catherine! Richly deserved!
A great interview with Jim on WessexFM. Click on the image to hear the interview…
On Saturday I had the absolute privilege to view the entire photographic archive of Virginia Turbett’s work with Simple Minds. It really was wonderful. I spent approximately three hours, on and off, perusing endless contact sheets of wonderful images of the band, and individual members. Many photos of Jim Kerr. A whole sheet of images…
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On syndication throughout England, on Thursday night, Georgey Spanswick interviewed Jim…and what a lovely interview it was. Even brushed upon the old “Prip” name again. Gotta say, boy, we love you for those “weird ears” 🙂 Makes me think I should restart the “Left Ear Appreciation” fan page again. Lol. Best to leave my fetishes…
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Thank you so, so much, Virginia for letting me visit and having to endure my endless over-enthusiasm. Thank you for lunch too. There were so many other questions. If there had been so much more time…perhaps again in the future. It really was an honour and a privilege.
It was a song I…kind of avoided listening to over the past few years. I don’t really know why, for sure. Maybe an intuition? I’ve probably only listened to the Lostboy! version about three times in total. Perhaps something was telling me it was…incomplete…and that it would be reworked. I genuinely don’t know why I…
Feeling nostalgic today…
Today, this one is for Mozzy. RIP
You can hear them on the last hour of the show, as well as the first play of Sense Of Discovery. Click on the image below to hear the show on iPlayer.
I love it! Steve Lamacq called me Prip! Cos we is like besties and stuff, yeah. Lol I’m being silly…but it was actually really cool. Normally I’d beat myself up for a typo like that…but it kinda worked…made it Scottish. Lol https://twitter.com/priptonaweird/status/956212464127012865 And you can hear the snippet at the end below. I’ll link to…
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