May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Apart from one addition in Ms Sarah Brown showing as a solo artist! All the usual suspect otherwise, with possibly even more Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music than the previous couple of years. But the Minds and Bowie will ALWAYS be top! Forever. New songs making an appearance for SM. I think this may be…
Priptona Art images celebrating St Andrew’s Day viewable in the post. Click to see…
I think I’ve come to understand one of the main reasons why I love Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call so much. Firstly, musically, it just progresses so beautifully. There is that undercurrent connective theme of travel, linked by the musical stamps of Derek Forbes’s fabulous bass lines, Mick MacNeil’s synth riffs and melodies and those…
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He’s 63 today. Hope you’re having a stellar day today, Mr Bubble and that The Emperor is buying you lunch. Release the mothballs, Kerr! Lol
Monday started REAL early. My Easyjet flight to Luton was departing at 9.50am and they were recommending arrival to the airport two hours before departure time. I set my alarm for 4.50am so I could get the 6.45am train to Queen Street. I was awake at 3.30am! Not only that, I had (excuse the graphic…
Today the official David Bowie social media said that the Jean Genie is 50 years old today. And tomorrow, the band who named themselves after a line from the song “He’s so simple-minded he can’t drive his module” (aka Simple Minds) will be 45 years old! Happy Anniversary to two of the best things in…
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More to come. For now… this!
A new Art & Talk special. Yes, it has taken me a few days to get to it but I did finally listen to it last night. And what a wonderful mixed bag it is. I had prepared myself for Jim’s ‘lazy crooning’ stuff that he did in the mid nineties – a style of…
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Jim talks to Arroe Collins about the new album, Direction Of The Heart. Click to read more and listen to the interview…
I love a podcast and recently I have been going through quite a heavy spell of podcast listening. There are some long regulars like The Archers – I know! Had you told me when I first moved to the UK and learned about The Archers that I’d start listening to it several years later and…
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