Happy Birthday Mel Gaynor!
56 years old today and not looking ANYWHERE NEAR as wasted today as you did back then! 🙂 Many happy returns!
Author: Priptona
50 something, living with partner, expressing every day ramblings.
Jim Kerr – Alive And Kicking: KX 93.5 Laguna Beach, CA – Show 5
Only one show left now!!! Waaaaah!! I feel like I get to spend an hour just hanging out with him, playing music each week. It’s such an awesome feeling. And I would give ANYTHING for it to be a REAL LIFE experience…but, if it can only just be via radio waves…long may it continue. I…
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And Yet MORE Fangirl Treasure!
Yes!! I am DEFINITELY reining it in after this lot!
Why I Love…Twist/Run/Repulsion
Well, the reading of the manuscript by a lady in French is the first indicator that something about this song is going to be a little “left field” and wonderfully avant garde. Not to mention the rather unsettling and creepy sounding reversed words at the very intro of the song. It was only VERY recently…
Shrine Art – The Wordsmith: LDF
This is beautiful…even if I do say so myself! It helps that the subject matter is beautiful though… Oh, fucking hell in a handcart, I’m a lost cause!! Not done any LDF inspired stuff for a while either…
Stranger – More Fangirl Treasure
Yes…gonna have to stop spending! NEED TO SAVE FOR GIGS!!!
“Lyric” Of The Day – Veldt
Yep…it’s an instrumental. Well, it DOES have words…of a sort 🙂 Lyric of the day (instrumental) Song: Veldt Album: Real To Real Cacophony Year of release: 1979 Written by: Simple Minds
Empires And Dance – First Pressing?
I think I might have just scored me a first pressing copy of Empires And Dance on Discogs. I bloody hope so!! I’ll be OVER THE MOON if so!! :-)))
Unseen Picture!
Well, definitely not one *I’d* seen before! Oh, man alive, he is beautiful in a suit! Jim Kerr, you are a gorgeous, gorgeous man! I am SSOOO KERR-sed! *sigh* https://instagram.com/p/BF4TTTrk2lw/
There’s No Other Way…
A bit late…but nice to read more of the transcript of Damon Albarn’s acceptance speech at The Ivors and his credit and appreciation to Simple Minds. And, yes, Damon…the Minds were MUCH cooler than U2 then (maybe even now?)…if only I had known! Regrets… I’ve had a few… But then again… (This one hurts to…