May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I was really looking forward to being TOTALLY absorbed into the new album. I had high hopes, you know. All I was hearing from it, then the first couple of plays. Then waiting for the promotional dust to settle and just….fall deeply in love. And then a spanner was thrown into the works. The CD…
Sarah Brown has a new single out from her superb ‘….Sings Mahalia Jackson’ album. The track is called Didn’t It Rain and it is my favourite track off the album. Next Monday I fly down to London to see Sarah play the iconic jazz venue in Soho, Ronnie Scott’s. The gig is a sellout and…
I think it probably has happened. I had a MASSIVE wobble and, well….it’s probably all too late and…. Life moves on, as a (mostly) wise man once said. A person who, I believe, has made plenty of mistakes also. But I get that I have become massively wearing and have always invested too much in…
So, I was working on my assignment for uni on Tuesday, conscious that time was ticking to get the essay written so I could hand the assignment in on time by Thursday afternoon’s deadline. I kept on lapsing in and out of the work, just to help to ultimately keep engaged with it and get…
Simple Minds are the main feature in the latest issue of ES. Click to read more…
Oh, something to be happy about! Yay! Still struggling to get my essay together for uni – just refining, editing, wanting to present it well, etc. Other things aside of that too still niggling away too. Never mind! The assignment IS the priority for now. It’s due midday Thursday and I have more incentive than…
Firstly, can I just say that title implies that the working class have to strive to be world class. Like…it just compounds the percieved “working class” stigma to me. But, hey, that’s probably just me. I digress. I guess it could have had a worse title like, say, “Working Class Made Good” or something. I…
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Because this is my happy song. I need my happy song today. (Click to play related music video)
I am 825 words into a ROUGH draft 1200 essay that’s due on Thursday morning. I’m not feeling confident about this one. I’m not sure I have actually felt confident over any of them! (I’m trying to keep my score of 80 for my eTMA – ie: end-of-module Tutor Marked Assignment – in the forefront…
Today is the anniversary of my first ever visit to Glasgow – six years ago. I had come up to take part in 15 to 1. A bucket list tick for something I had long wished to do – to be a contestant on a television quiz show. There was somebody who was HUGELY responsible…