May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Was sent the loveliest present by my friend, Ruth. It’s been a quiet day. Glasgow has put on some FANTABULOUS weather today. BUT! I’m “Alive And Kicking”. I have my faculties. I’m warm and safe indoors. I have my furbabies to snuggle up to. It’s all good. Yes, 2020 has been a pretty shit year…
Went in and collected my birthday doughnuts this morning. A day early, yes! But tomorrow the weather is going to PISH doon (and with it being actual Halloween, I thought Tantrum would be UBER busy) so I thought I’d get them today. Ta da!!!
Ah…you know what I was saying in my video(s) yesterday about being mildly gutted if my fan bit is not in the book…well… Seemingly those who are in it have been receiving emails about it being confirmed that YES – they ARE in the book and that they can see their piece in the book…
I did this bit of editing work on one of Virginia’s photos of Jim. I asked her permission to share it on my blog and social media. She granted me permission – so please, I ask if you do share, give credit or link back to the blog or social media pages. Either to mine…
I’m still doing a little toe-dip into Bolan and T Rex at the moment. Just a couple of tracks per night. Nothing too taxing or deeply absorbing. I’m not fully immersing myself into the whole thing. Not like I have done in recent times with other musical explorations – Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Magazine –…
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With Halloween on Saturday, there was only one song left in the Halloween countdown to choose. The epic, the immense and majestic – Pleasantly Disturbed! Enjoy!
After I had done my post about Ride A White Swan last night – I did a thing I usually do not do and posted to SMOG before researching my topic and then proceeded to make a right tit of myself! Well, I’ll blame being unwell for that because, normally, I’d go out on the…
I’m still listening to the MainMan podcast each week. Avidly devouring each new episode every Thursday night (a distraction from an otherwise hollow “Kerrsday”). This week’s episode was centred around the early career of Marc Bolan – as a rival (but also sometimes collaborator) and contemporary of David Bowie’s and how firstly with Tyrannosaurus Rex…
April 12th. That was the last time. I count the days. Jalopy.