May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Released in 1982 New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) was Simple Minds 5th album in 3 years and it was a commercial and critical breakthrough they were seeking Source: reDiscover Simple Minds : New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)
KX 93.5 are being very slow with their release of the podcast of show number three of Jim’s radio show. I actually don’t get why there is such a delay. It’s a pre-record anyway. Jim recorded these shows several weeks back…so why does the podcast take so damn long to be put up on the…
I go through phases with Simple Minds. For example, if you have been following this blog for a while you’ll remember my complete change of heart about the song No Cure and how UTTERLY embedded in my head it was for WEEKS! Several songs since have done the rounds. They come and go, jostling for…
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I already have a signed copy of Lostboy! but I wanted to go for these promo copies as they usually seem quite prized. Can never have enough Lostboy! 🙂
This picture was a VERY TINY inset of a number of photos in a magazine interview with Jim from 1987. This pic is obviously from 1982 and part of the photoset for the New Gold Dream promotional stuff. He is in a slightly different pose to how he is on the Someone Somewhere In Summertime…
A bit of a change today for the Lyric Of The Day – a non-SM song! Jim provides the vocals for this song though, and it’s a gorgeous song so I wanted to do a piece for it. Lyric of the day Song: Where The Wild Things Are Album: Radioland Year of release: 2013 Written…
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A brainwave took me this morning with an idea to make sure I actually share some Minds music on the site each week, so welcome to the inaugral Minds Music Monday! I bloody love this version of this song. I wanted to link to YouTube but on the UK front of YouTube, I can’t get…
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As relevant today as ever…