Happy Canada Day
? Tom Sheehan Inside Melody Maker magazine – November 27th, 1982.
Category: jim kerr
Geez – Well If Chrissie Can Make Him Bored…
What hope the rest of us mere mortals?! I shudder to think at the boredom I induce! ??????
A Change Of…Terms?
Where do I start? Well, I start by saying – the blog ends up being my safe place for a moan…a gripe…a whinge. Mostly because I know Jim doesn’t want to hear it. I appreciate that. Well, I kind of expressed, briefly, in the comments about the use of the phrase “longterm” – like how…
Warm Digits – Flight Of Ideas – Listening Party Replay
Now Jim may well be found “in the kitchen at parties” (bedroom, more like!) – but Tim Burgess is now the self-proclaimed Twitter DJ to end all Twitter DJ’s. Since pretty much the beginning of lockdown he has held “listening parties” on Twitter. The concept being, we all join up online and listen to an…
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The Longterm?
How does one define how ‘long’ the longterm is? I ponder because in Jim’s post today he talks about the “Book Of Brilliant Things” or whatever it’s going to end up being called. The fan-based SM compendium. “….we are looking to create something to which all longterm Simple Minds fans will hopefully want to contribute…
The Anglophile – A ‘Discs And Doughnuts’ Playlist
This one started germinating from the idea of two things – the response to the “Antipodean Greats” playlist and that love of music from the UK that I always had too. “The Mother Country”, old “Blighty”. As the Australian nation post WWII looked to align itself firstly with America and then in more recent years…
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Jim Kerr – In His Own Words – Record Mirror 1985
We’ve always had an Art School tag…I don’t even think there is an art school in Glasgow. Jim Kerr, 1984 on Simple Minds I do NOT believe for a single second he’d have said that! I mean, geez, the Glasgow School of Art is one of the city’s most famous buildings! They even played there…
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Never Too Much ‘Guyliner’!
I shared this photo (just a quick snap of it when it arrived by post on my camera, rather than the proper scanned image that I’m sharing here) on FB when it arrived just to share the sheer beauty of this man and show some of the collecting hoard I had got myself. A friend…
Vicarious Talk
The dream of conversation with Jim.
Jim, Are You Not Entertained? Podcast Chat
Jim posted about it yesterday, saying he was asked about Mandela. It’s all well and good they were asking about Mandela Day. As you say, under current circumstances it makes sense. But I still can’t help but feel pangs of envy. I mean, geez, it’s their SECOND interview in as many years and I can’t…
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