May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Or should that be “memorabilia MOUNTING”? I have made an acquisition for the first time in MONTHS! I’ve had Minds memorabilia collecting on hold for some time. And I’ve so desperately wanted to add things to my collection and share them here. This is just one thing, for now, and once it arrives in the…
I’ve not bought the album yet and had my first listen to it proper on Spotify last night. This won’t be a strict review, just a general mulling over of my first impressions. I was already familiar with three tracks, the title track, He’s Got His Mother’s Hips and Is He Strange. At last week’s…
That is going on with this info… Imma just gonna leave this here and just…CROSS EVERYTHING! Initially I was thinking about seeing him in Berlin next year, for Bowie Berlin bucket list mega tick off… Oh, but if Bryan did Oz…and SM were there too?! HOLY FUCKING FUCKNUTS!
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One of the things that keeps capturing my imagination on this American tour are those wonderful marquee signs that many of the venues in the USA still use. It’s a simple advertising technique, but it looks really beautiful in its odd way. Maybe it’s just a nostalgia thing on my part? But I just find…
There’s always a bone of contention in the fandom about Good News From The Next World…well, I suppose that whole “wilderness” period for Simple Minds fans that seems to go anywhere from 1992 to 2005…depending upon your taste. The “low” period, for my personal taste, happens much earlier. My personal “wilderness” period is when they…
Sometimes it comes really easy and after just a short play…something develops, takes shape and is there before I know it. Other times (like tonight)…I build layer upon layer upon layer…add things, remove things, change things. Get a sense of what I want, but lose perspective trying to find it. That…nothing ever is quite right….
Echo And The Funnymen?! Lol – brilliant typo. A great set of photos with the review. All credit to Scott Sandberg. Click on the wonderful image of Jim to see the rest and read the short review. This man… *sigh*
A wonderfully worded piece from Iain Lee in the latest issue of Record Collector, talking to Colin Moulding and Terry Chambers on their new work and their imminent gigs as…well…near enough to XTC as anyone is ever to likely see on a stage…in Swindon, of course.
A great “showcase” montage clip of SM at the 9:30 Club in Washington. Starting to think that, if I had been able to get to one North American gig…this would have been the one to go to. Sounds amazing…and the intimacy of the venue! Never seen them anywhere quite that small. I suppose the smallest…