May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
In the canon of Simple Minds work, some songs get forgotten about…lost…overshadowed or under-appreciated. In making a choice for this week’s MMM, I wanted to choose a track that was topical. I was thinking about the weather and the time of year and with it being “Blue Monday” today, I thought this neglected gem needed…
Several months back, I acquired some posters. I recently got a couple up on the walls, which meant removing other SM memorabilia off my walls to make them fit. Today those things were placed back up on the walls with some of the other posters making their debut on my bedroom walls. Also my amazing…
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Some days I wish the hunter could be the hunted…
Great news from Sarah Brown’s social media pages yesterday. Some more good news would be most welcome. There is such conflicting stuff I’m seeing at the moment when it comes to live music. Who knows where we’ll be by the summer? I’m not feeling very hopeful. The 1975 have cancelled all their 2021 dates, meanwhile…
The makers of Uncut magazine have brought out a special edition of the magazine with a whole issue dedicated entirely to Marc Bolan. I just had a quick perusal of it and it looks pretty good. Loads of detail and lots of great photos. I’ll give it a more substantial read later on.
A chat and a bit of a look-see at my new fangirl treasure… Isn’t it FABULOUS?! ???
I always consider it an “act of love” that these, let’s face it – barely adult boys (yes, screaming oxymoron there!) – would form a band and rehearse and play and that most gorgeous of those boys (bias!) would be the glue that acts as the cohesion to get it all to gel with his…
I had a bit of a breakthrough shortly after doing this video and cracked even more of it again after a coffee and some stollen. The photo below shows how it looks at day’s end today.
Over 21 years I’ve had this. It was one of the first things I bought when I arrived in the UK. A souvenir of my first ever visit to London, in the summer of 1999. It has been the mug I have used first every day ever since. Either for tea (I wasn’t a coffee…
Five years on…. Thank you so much, Jim ?? “Forever, I will adore only you…”