May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I worked on this earlier this evening. When I need to just….unwind…relax…get meditative, the art does it. The digital art does it. Jim does it. Focussing on him. Exemplifying his beauty. I know! I am solid gone. But today I don’t care. He is the best medicine I know. I can’t express how calming and…
A song by a band you wish were still together – I don’t really wish JATSA to still be together…but choosing Dead Vandals allowed me to cheat.
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The past few days have been quite a bit of a topsy turvy affair. I was hoping to do reviews of both The Stranglers and Stewart Copeland gigs that I went to over these past few days today. One might be a little awkward to do too much of a review for, sadly. The other…
A song that you think everybody should listen to – Of the Simple Minds canon, Careful In Career seems a particularly overlooked and undervalued piece. It’s amazingly atmospheric and moody and Jim’s vocal is just…the best thing. Ever.
People be jumping the gun re: Life In A Day 40th anniversary. Lots of celebrating today…but there is an official Zoom press release from the time on the Dream Giver Redux site showing the release date to be April 13th…so I will be holding my horses until then. BUT…in preparation for it, you can read…
This was the first notification I saw this morning…and for a split second I got a heart flutter but then I took in – a) the venue (the Roadmender is in NO WAY big enough for a SM gig), and b) what I saw a few days ago when down in Bristol (ie: Derek is…