May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I really don’t know why I was attracted to this. Nothing really screamed out at me that it was anything different when I first saw the video’s ident. Another remix? Hmmm, okay. I usually stumble onto these clips by doing a search that is new content specific. So, I search “simple minds” and then I…
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The lyrics are incredible. Steeped in realism. How does a 20 year old man write with such depth? And write with more depth than the 63 year old version of the same man seems capable of? Genuinely. I mean…Jim has depth in his writing on Facebook. It still comes across there but it doesn’t seem…
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These arrived from Virginia this morning. Jim smiling was just the sunshine I needed. I’ve had two hours sleep and I’m just about to fall behind with my coursework in spite of all the study I’ve been doing (oops, uni talk! That’s what the other blog is for, Prip!) – an afternoon siesta beckons. In…
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Tonight I have my first of a sparse array of gigs for 2023. This one requires a trip to the Scottish capital and a first for the venue of the Liquid Room. A venue John Grant was originally going to play at, pre-Pandemic, which then got altered to the Barras. I was ecstatic about the…
I’m in “miss you” mode. I’m not going to say anything else. I’m already disgusted with myself as is! Fuck feelings!
It seems as if more often than no that the 17th January (in my experience) here in Glesga seems to be a lovely sunny day. Always cold, mind! But invariably sunny. What it was like in 1978, I cannot tell you. No doubt equally as cold as it is today. A newly formed band of…
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And even though he trots out the same stuff in almost EVERY interview, he can still make me giggle – the bitch! Lol Anyway, I spotted Garry Bushell posting about this on Instragram so I thought I’d give it a quick read. The one about him getting his dance moves was a new one on…
He’s 75 years old and you’d never know it to listen to this new album. This week has seen a new album release from one James Newell Osterberg Jr (aka Iggy Pop). I had a listen to it on Friday night – admitting that I hardly pay any attention to new material from the Iggster…
Yesterday Jim posted about it being 50 years of concert-going for him. A vast swathe of those concerts he’s experienced from the other side of the auditoria as being frontman of one of the world’s best bands (don’t tell him I said that – don’t want him getting a big head now! Lol. Too late!). …
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That sentence being, “Well, I might make it a poster on my studio wall also!”. I can’t tell you what that sentence did to me! Just waking up at my mum’s house and seeing the post and the way my heart pounded away. Silly really. It had been a long time since something had made…
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