May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This year feels like it has been a long one. I started university back in January and I am now working through the second module of my DipHE English. There was excitement at the start of the year with some Simple Minds related releases happening. The first being from the band themselves with the release…
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In the final MMM before Christmas I didn’t really know what song I was going to choose. So much so that I started to look through the list of commercially released songs on Dream Giver Redux for some inspiration, and what I thought about doing initially was finding a song from more recent years to…
It was a very frosty evening on Wednesday night. The UK has been suffering from an Arctic freeze blast for the past several days with most places experiencing snow. Glasgow is one of the few places to lay low enough in the Clyde valley to miss the snow, but the temperatures have been incredibly cold…
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The latest Guitarist magazine has an interview with Charlie inside it. Also, for a pro guitar magazine you’d think they’d be able to tell the difference between Charlie and Johnny Marr and yet….a photo of Marr with Jim at the Mandela concert is labelled as Jim with Charlie. Oops! I haven’t read the article yet,…
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As alluded to on Friday, I wanted to discuss the curious case of ‘Traffic’ for Minds Music Monday. I’m perplexed. For a band that prided itself in not pandering to the whims and wishes of others, it seems a complete exercise in pandering to “radio play” to change the title of the track to the…
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Lol. I’m obviously going through some kind of….internal crisis or something. Lol. I dunno. But doing these silly things are a great distraction right now. It has me concentrating on Christmas whilst simultaneously doing absolutely FUCK ALL about Christmas. I haven’t even put the tree up yet. Its been sitting in its box via the…
So, what do I say here? This is the inaugural post for Fanatical Friday and it can be about anything music related. It doesn’t have to be about Simple Minds…but…this first one will be. Last night I listened to “Traffic” and the Acoustic Mix of it. That aspect I will leave for discussion on Monday…
Before the day disappears…I decided to have some fun and do a “Kerrsday Christmas” fun bit of fan ‘art’. Lol I love doing stuff like this. And, erm…Santa…COME ON, man! Just…a wee dream? You used to let me have nice dreams about him. Now even that’s all gone. Cannae get a break, I swear!
A bit late to it. Not sure whether it was down to the date of the magazine going up on Readly or whether they are just behind the eight ball but…better late than never as they say… It’s not a bad one, all things considered. It is certainly detailed. P.S. JUMP YOU SAY? Is this…
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Wow! Didn’t expect to see it on ANY ‘Album of the Year’ list in all honesty. And at 28 in a list of 50, that ain’t bad!