Author: Priptona
50 something, living with partner, expressing every day ramblings.
Win Tickets To The Slessor Gardens Grandslam!
The Dundee Evening Telegraph is running a competition in which they are giving away a pair of tickets for the Simple Minds/Pretenders/KT Tunstall Grandslam concert finale at Slessor Gardens in September. To see details on how to enter, click here. Competition runs until 9am BST next Monday, April 16th. GOOD LUCK!
Confirmation Of The Inevitable For Italian Fans – No Tao Gig
Well, at least in local Taormina and Sicilian online press there is confirmation that a touted June 24th gig in Tao is a “no go”. The gist of the translation of reports from Italian to English seems to indicate that no official word has come from SM as to the validity of this gig, or…
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Minds Music Monday – Careful In Career, Live – Tiffany’s, 1981
A bridge version split somewhere between the demo that can be sampled on Silver Box and what gets recorded for the Sister Feelings Call album…this is the only known live recording of SM performing Careful In Career. A song that I feel is vastly underrated within the SM canon. A pity it is so under-appreciated…
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Roxy Reviews – All That Glitters In Glam Is Still Gold
I was listening into Billy Sloan’s show last night and he was talking about fellow music journo/music presenter David Hepworth and his belief that 1971 was the most creatively rich year in the history of rock music. But when I read this review of Roxy Music’s first two albums, it would seem – at least…
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Jim Kerr z Simple Minds w Polskim radiu
S?uchaj, klikaj?c tutaj Wywiad rozpoczyna si? oko?o 33 minut. Ah, praise be for Google Translate. I do have the odd Polish visitor to the blog. Cze?? i dzi?kuj?.
Why You Should Always Look First, Then Ask Questions Later
I should always heed my own advice! Every now and then, I ponder the lines to Light Travels…and my curiosity piques. So, this morning I thought “I must write this all down…ask Jim. Then I’ll go to Dream Giver and see if some answers may lay there.” The question follows: “Light Travels I’ve always had…
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The New One…
Deathbed. Passing time. Girl and her hobby. Ya da ya da.
Forgetting Voraciously…
I’ve been reading articles from various magazines this evening. An interview with Glenda Jackson in one, various bits from “This Week”, including an article on how appalling we seem to be at retaining the details of a novel’s plot and story arc after we’ve read it. I found it particularly interesting, as I feel I…
What About “The Breakfast Club”?
Just finished reading a fantastically written piece by Molly Ringwald in The New Yorker about her revisiting the films she made with John Hughes. Extremely insightful and thought-provoking. You can read it by clicking on the image below…