May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Today sees the release of repackaged editions of Big Music – in celebration of its 10th anniversary (which is a more timely – and slightly more welcome – release than the Sparkle 40th anniversary rehash) for National Album Day. Available in two formats: a 2LP 140gm orange colour vinyl, and a 2CD set in a…
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This blog is growing seriously stagnant. As well as that, with the book taking up much of my creative writing time I’ve hardly done any other writing. I need to actively get back on the saddle to get my mind thinking about the avenues of writing that I will be getting involved in – namely…
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Box set…ya da ya da…blue vinyl blah blah…. A couple of nice t-shirts that are actually back to an affordable price point (rather than the £40 extortionate charge for tour t-shirts!) of £25. As for the prices of the music packages? Nope! No thanks. Sorry – this is of “I Saw You Coming” proportions. Anyway,…
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Why go to one Hamish Hawk gig, when you can go to two? Well, that was my reckoning after having seen Mr Hawk and his band in Manchester the night before the release of the new album, A Firmer Hand. The gig was performed earlier in the evening, which suits an old fart like me…
I am bloody shattered! There’s been a lot of travel. Early days and restless nights. And I feel like I’m getting too old for this malarky – but I wouldn’t have swapped the past few days for the world! Thursday – Hamish Hawk First up was a trip down to Manchester to see Hamish Hawk…
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One part of the year is over, now the summer is dedicated to me working on getting Simple Minds: Song by Song completed. I did allow myself a couple of days downtime over the past several days. One day off involved heading to Milngavie for a classic car show that was happening in the town….
Today I tried to get straight back into the swing of things. Working on my uni assignment was hard. I didn’t get much done and the subject matter of my assignment is such that…well, death and/or dying seems to be my recurring theme for everything I’ve been writing for uni this academic year. All my…
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My apologies once again for a vlog review – for a writer, I like to do vlog posts! I’m just conscious to the fact I will be doing a heap of writing from tomorrow onwards (uni studies, and an assignment due next week, plus writing for the book will begin in earnest now, so yes…
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Really sorry this is a review as a vlog post but I wanted to get my review up and posted in good time. Right now I’m just too under the weather to write out a review. My apologies. I tried to be as succinct as possible. I had set myself 45 minutes to review it…
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Another post about SM. Another day in which study goes out the window to be replaced with my preoccupation with this topic. I have to say when I bumped into Billy Sloan in the city back in November on the night of Derek Forbes’ talk and book signing, he played a stellar poker face to…
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