Bootleg Beauty!
Listening to another live gig tonight. Sounding like a good one so far. Look at that date! What a Christmas present!!!
Category: charlie burchill
Fanzine Memorabilia – Late 1980s
Been pulling the reins in on the spending on SM memorabilia, but when I saw this little bundle on eBay last week – I had to have a bid! Picked them up for a bargain! (£3.79). Some nice photos too – and a colour cover on one! Lots of photos are inky dot-matrix prints, but…
Jim and Charlie “Bromance” Gif – Barrowland 1991
(via priptona-weird) The Jim and Charlie “bromance” :-))
Molly Meldrum Declares Glittering Prize Will Be Number One
Molly Meldrum’s prediction for Glittering Prize as it enters the Australian chart. Sadly – and rather disappointingly – it only reached Number Nine. But, hey, that’s a Top 10 hit! I’m sure the guys were happy to take it 🙂 Though he kind of got it right in the end, as the “Best of…” that was…
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Fangirl Shrine
And just to the left a bit…they are NOT allowed to get dusty 😉
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.