Fangirl Shrine
And just to the left a bit…they are NOT allowed to get dusty 😉
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Simple Minds on Hear Here – Scotland 1980
Absolutely everything I love about early Simple Minds all here in one little dynamic live set. They were just ‘ON’ from the get go! Amazing young musicians in Derek Forbes, Mick MacNeil and Brian McGee – not forgetting two stalwarts of Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr – what a frontman he is! Yes, biased, I…
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I Travel Live – Usher Hall Edinburgh 2015
Simple Minds – I Travel Killer version – still fresh some 35 years down the line. Love it! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Simple Minds Feature – Q Magazine – The Story of Electro-Pop 2005
Simple Minds feature article in Q Magazine Special on Depeche Mode and The Story of Electro-pop from 2005. I will be scanning the complete magazine in the next couple of days and sharing it in sections. I will put “Phase One” of the magazine up shortly. The magazine has really great features…but of course I…
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Jim and Charlie on Countdown – 1986
Jim and Charlie on Oz music programme Countdown. They went back on??! I see Jim made sure Charlie sat between him and Molly this time! (Sexual tension…from Molly’s side only, of course!) Jim even mentions the Love Song performance from back in the day. But didn’t mention the big yellow man-bag. Lol. Wish Molly had…
Smash Hits Reviews of New Gold Dream (album), PYAM and SSIS – 1982
New Gold Dream era Smash Hits reviews. Singles: Promised You A Miracle (reviewed by Neil Tennant, no less!) and Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) reviewed, plus Album: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) reviewed by David Hepworth, receiving 8/10.
Smash Hits Reviews of Sparkle in the Rain and singles – 1983/84
Sparkle In The Rain era reviews in Smash Hits magazine through 1984. Waterfront achieved the high praise of “single of the fortnight”. Ooh!!
Photoset from Werchter Festival 1983 – Part 2
More photos of Simple Minds performing at the Werchter Festival, 1983.
Photoset from Werchter Festival 1983 – Part 1
Colour photoset of Simple Minds performing at Werchter Festival in 1983.
The Tavistock Terrors
Fun in the park with the autumn leaves. Photos taken at Tavistock Square in London by the Gandhi statue. Think they date from 1980. That last photo of Jim is absolutely beautiful! Well, Jim is beautiful. Any photos of him with tousled hair just makes me melt! *sigh*