May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
“There’s a brand new talk but it’s not very clear. The people from good homes are talking this year. It’s loud and it’s tasteless and I’ve heard it before. You shout it while you’re dancing on the er er dancefloor”. Beep beep! Happy Anniversary, Scary Monsters. PLAY TEENAGE WILDLIFE AT MAXIMUM VOLUME!
Some videos, the book I discuss in one of them, as well as the talk of it being Kerrsday and my favourite photo of the most beautiful man on earth! (Yeah…I know. Whatever. I adore him. Fuck it. I don’t care anymore.) Also, on another note, I have just discovered that Bowie’s Ouvrez Le Chien…
Ramoana, who is out on the interwebbings hosting a weekly Bowie show on a Canadian Internet radio station pointed me towards THIS! What MAY just be the BEST podcast series I am about to listen to. I bloody LOVE the MainMan period….mostly because it’s just well…several things – Defries is a fucking MANIAC money hungry…
Today’s wafflefest about why I am not listening to much music and pondering why this is happening…
The latest edition of Uncut magazine has a big old interview with Gabriel as well as a feature on the 40th anniversary of the release of Melt – not sure if there is at all any Minds references – I have yet to read it. There is also a feature on Toots And The Maytals…
The documentary on the famous Monmouthshire recording studio is set to air simultaneously on BBC Two Wales and BBC Four on Saturday, July 18th at 9pm BST. Below is a trailer on the documentary – with a tiny snippet of Jim discussing Simple Minds’ meeting with David Bowie and Iggy Pop while the band were…
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I love this story that George Underwood tells of him and David Bowie going to see Little Richard. It’s part of Uncut magazine’s big obit to Little Richard. I had read the story some time back – but it bears repeating. If there is really such a thing as heaven and those of us deemed…
48 years ago today, this guy crash landed into our lives. Happy Anniversary, Ziggy!