And As I Was Putting The ‘Tears’ Playlist Together…
On Spotify, when I was looking for You Go To My Head by Billie Holiday, I saw this… Yes…I’ll always hold a torch for Jim ??
Category: jim kerr
Possibly 1000?
You know when I do these “shrine art” pieces, I sometimes add a random number to the post because I really have no idea how many of these I’ve done. Come September, I’d have been making these (not to this level of quality, mind!) for five years. And given for quite a bit of those…
Tears Playlist
Today’s post by Jim seems unnervingly timely. I’ve really never understood how he seems to have this propensity of doing this thing where, I go to write something for the blog …. have a theme of something in my mind and then before I’ve even aired it or posted about it – HE posts something…
I Wish I Was There…
Leeds, 2018. Don’t mean to be maudlin, but… To hear the “burning slow” lines return to the song during the Grandslam part of the tour – I was sssooo, so happy. They are the most beautiful, romantic lines. There was “soft rain” falling that night in Leeds too. And after all that had gone on…
Shrine Art Attempt Number 2117
Sometimes I come away from the art for a short while – but he always draws me back in. I literally just CANNOT stop looking at him and so the only way I feel justified in doing so is…to make art and have him as the centrepiece. He’s always the focal point. There’s just…an aesthetic…
Working in Twos…
I worked on two art pieces yesterday. The first one…I knew what I wanted from it, but it didn’t really come together. I’m not sure I like it. I love him on that Whistle Test appearance though ???? The other was going to be another attempt, but it quickly morphed into something else and took…
Minds Music Monday – New Gold Dream – Newcastle City Hall, 1982
Continuing on a Swedish theme…his Kerrness, in a bath in a hotel writing lyrics for this in the summer of 1982, in Sweden. Nom Nom Nom
I’m Just A Soppy Old Jalopy
Before the day ends…there was this today. And I know it shouldn’t! It just shouldn’t…but…holy hell – it just means the whole world to me. Such a silly thing. He probably never gave it a second’s thought straight after….but for me? Well, you know. I love words and a word from him means everything. Everything.
I Wish Life Could Be Swedish Magazines…
The line from Iggy Pop’s Five Foot One could not be a more appropriate title because, right now, I DO wish “life could be Swedish magazines”. Well, newspapers might be more accurate. Anyway, that’s semantics. This morning on the Simple Minds Official Group (or should that now just be “Simple Minds Group”?), a Swedish fan…
OGWT Gems – Yeah, My Lips Were Whistling Alright!
I have been subscribed to this person’s YT account for a while – but a certain Mr Machray beat me to seeing this gem first. I had seen the SSIS footage before but had never seen the Hunter And The Hunted clip from it…Just a few little gifs taken from it going back years ago….
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