Seeing Through The Eyes Of Love
A fun afternoon in sunny Glesga.
Category: mick macneil
New Gold Dream – Oxford Road Show, January 1983
I had previously seen them performing I Travel on this ORS episode, but hadn’t seen this performance of New Gold Dream before. It’s as the end credits roll so gets a bit cut off but still gold to see.
Before Lostboy! There Was “Special School” Boy! Lol (Pro Synth Network with Mick MacNeil)
I need to explain this post header. Lol “The Man in the Sky”, Mick MacNeil, was being interviewed….well, more joined in in a live stream chat (with a loose interview in there) for this YouTube channel called the Pro Synth Network. Basically a weekly synth geek’s get together to discuss all things Synth and keyboard…
Simple Minds Top Five
A surprising Simple Minds Top 5, I’d say but probably not from an American fan stand point. And nothing really discussed post 1986 which, well…given the broader subject of this YouTuber’s channel is 1980s music, it makes sense. But…SM did have the high selling Live In The City Of Lights and Street Fighting Years released…
Simple Minds Magazine Article – Mojo Magazine Early 2012
It’s a clipping I only recently came into possession of and I had never (for obvious reasons) read the article before. Some interesting things said. Interesting to read Mick saying that he thought they’d have all stayed together…maybe might had still been together (as of then) if Brian hadn’t have left when he did. Also…
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As Song Debuts Go – Minds Music Monday – Ghostdancing At Live Aid
35 years ago today, this happened….
“RockField – The Studio On The Farm” Documentary To Air On BBC Channels!
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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Poster Power!
A few more recent acquisitions…. The Mecano one is already up on display. Oh, I do like to live vicariously!
Visual Treats
Well, for me anyways. Quite a number of photos I hadn’t seen before in the pages of this little booklet. I’m sharing most of the previously unseen (by me) photos within. A few of them have been around before but I just liked scanning them and having a perhaps better copy than I previously did….