May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
A wonderful friend of mine in Oz – Wendy – has done these amazing rock paintings for me. When she showed me the progress of the New Gold Dream themed one a few days back, I cried my eyes out. I knew she was working on a silhouette of Jim but I wasn’t expecting that…
I’m starting to get to grips with the new kit. Need to do some height and space adjustments to get it right in the sweet spots I want it in. Some audio below of me fiddling about. You can hear some of the plethora of sounds you can get from the module settings. The are…
I wasn’t too wrong with my projection of how many SM/Jim Kerr prints of Virginia’s I’d end up with. I think we’re going to end up near something like 140-150. Nearly there. This one’s a sort of Kerrsday nostalgia trip… Throwback Kerrsday, if you will.
The documentary on the famous Monmouthshire recording studio is set to air simultaneously on BBC Two Wales and BBC Four on Saturday, July 18th at 9pm BST. Below is a trailer on the documentary – with a tiny snippet of Jim discussing Simple Minds’ meeting with David Bowie and Iggy Pop while the band were…
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? Tom Sheehan Inside Melody Maker magazine – November 27th, 1982.
Had to be done today… “Outside it’s hot – the first of July”
In exactly 4 months time, I’ll be turning 50. This was meant to be my big celebratory year. You only turn a half-century once, right? (Thankfully!) So…I decided that this would be the actual LAST HURRAH! The big final bash of a mass of Simple Minds gigs. I go to places around Europe and then…
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What hope the rest of us mere mortals?! I shudder to think at the boredom I induce! ??????
The more I listen to it, the more I think it might just be. If not, then a very close second to Street Hassle. So…what is it about Simple Minds covering Lou Reed songs that makes them so wonderful? Jim’s worship of Lou? Does it give an extra sense of “duty”? Does he just…care more?…
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