May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I kept convincing myself I wanted an acoustic kit. Like how I kept telling myself that I wanted to learn to drive a manual car. And like with the manual car when I realised that it actually would end up being faster and easier to learn to drive an automatic, I decided that if I…
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We’ve always had an Art School tag…I don’t even think there is an art school in Glasgow. Jim Kerr, 1984 on Simple Minds I do NOT believe for a single second he’d have said that! I mean, geez, the Glasgow School of Art is one of the city’s most famous buildings! They even played there…
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Happy Birthday Mr Derek Forbes – 64 years young today! Here’s one of your best…
I hadn’t been down to the Clyde since I saw Brian Ferry at the SEC Armadillo on March 3rd and I had desperately wanted to go there over the past couple of months. So with it being a mighty fine day yesterday and it almost the height of midsummer, I decided to set out for…
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I shared this photo (just a quick snap of it when it arrived by post on my camera, rather than the proper scanned image that I’m sharing here) on FB when it arrived just to share the sheer beauty of this man and show some of the collecting hoard I had got myself. A friend…
I love this story that George Underwood tells of him and David Bowie going to see Little Richard. It’s part of Uncut magazine’s big obit to Little Richard. I had read the story some time back – but it bears repeating. If there is really such a thing as heaven and those of us deemed…
And, well…just in case Sir disnae see it on the SM visitor wall (as it now behaves rather oddly these days and can’t be viewed via the FB app – at least I can’t view it – maybe I have been blocked from it? Dunno!) Anyways, I did post this to the SM FB wall…
The dream of conversation with Jim.
Jim posted about it yesterday, saying he was asked about Mandela. It’s all well and good they were asking about Mandela Day. As you say, under current circumstances it makes sense. But I still can’t help but feel pangs of envy. I mean, geez, it’s their SECOND interview in as many years and I can’t…
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48 years ago today, this guy crash landed into our lives. Happy Anniversary, Ziggy!