May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It feels like such a long way off yet, but today marks six months until the release of Simple Minds: Song by Song, my book on the entire back catalogue of Simple Minds’ musical output. As you’ll see from the pinned post on my blog’s homepage, you can preorder your copy from Amazon UK and…
I had a great night out on Tuesday night at St Luke’s watching the BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year 2026. A little preamble before getting to the nitty gritty. I coerned the Other Half to accompany me. I had initially planned to go on my own but there was a final release of…
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I absolutely made the best decision to sell on my Geese ticket and make space in my schedule for Lemon Drink. It was everything I was hoping it would be. A great relaxed atmosphere filled with people looking to have a great time but not going “overboard” as I had feared would be the case…
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Some weeks back I bought a ticket for Geese at the Barras. All the music mags had their 2025 album as THE album of the year – not necessarily all placed at number one, but many had it placed within the top five. I listened to the album, and quite enjoyed it and decided to…
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