One Month To Go!
Only one month to go before the Acoustic Tour kicks off in Europe, with the first cab off the rank being Essen in Germany. Lucky sods! Tickets are still available for selected gigs. Check out simpleminds.com for all tour details.
Author: Priptona
50 something, living with partner, expressing every day ramblings.
Lyric Of The Day – Long Black Train (Richard Hawley)
Such a beautiful song…have been wanting to do something with it all these months…
Instagram Man…
Another pic from the past I had never seen before. I’d say given by the look of him it was taken circa 1982. Beauty personified. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simple Minds Latin America (@simpleminds.ar)
David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging, The Kenny Everett Television Show, 1979
Someone in my Facebook timeline shared a clip of Bowie performing Boys Keep Swinging on The Kenny Everett Television Show – but the best bit was cut off! So here is the full clip. Something to chase away the Monday blues 🙂 “You know, I was in the war…but I didn’t see YOU there. I…
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A Gem That Passed Me By
Jim, in Melbourne, October 1982 (somewhere very near my 12th birthday!) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wayne O'Farrell Photography (@touchedbyvoice) Photo: Wayne O’Farrell
Promised You A Miracle – Top Of The Pops 1982
Because I love the suit and the boots…
The Complete Turbett
I can’t work on him any more. Having fixed his nose, sorted out his lips, repainted the iridescent background and corrected the elongated body proportions…I am done. I feel like it’s now a completed work. I am happy, but will never be entirely happy with it. It looks more like him than my previous attempt…
The Turbett – The F*** Up!
Yep! Monumental fuck up happened today. I wanted to “fix” the niggly bits that were worrying me about his nose. The more I tinkered. The more I dabbled, the worse it got! To such a degree that I was left with little choice but to paint over his whole nose completely. I HATE PAINTING (and…