May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The final look through my hoard of Virginia Turbett prints. UPDATE: I’m now speaking from the future! It’s September, 2023 and I am painstakingly updating this blog. Deleting BIG video files but uploading them to YouTube before deletion. So, now that means this post has one big original video, which I have just uploaded to…
A few other fans in the groups I am on mentioned this set of photos being sold on eBay. A photographer named Pete Still is selling a set of 30 photos that he took during a gig at the Lyceum Theatre in London on December 8th, 1982. I’m not sure what kind of kit he…
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Couldn’t wait until next week! All change AGAIN!
Muriel Gray interviews Jim “let me be your daddy” Kerr – the end to this interview shouldn’t have piqued my interest quite as much as it did….but what can I say. Gawd! The stutter is still there quite pronounced. I just want to lick him!!!! OMG! HELP ME!!! I knew of him back then! I…
Another gig shared by Art & Talk on YouTube. I started listening to it last night but started to drift off to sleep. But I came around again long enough to hear Jim’s deliver of the second verse in Celebrate “she rag doll / she she she keeps him so warm”. OMG – that line…
Well, that’s tonight’s gig sorted. Fire up the TARDIS…get to that front row. Gawp at the most goegous man, ever…mouth agape. Lol (Oh…and maybe take the odd cursory glance at Kenny too…) Oh, I dream. UPDATE: The crowd when Celebrate starts! The roar of applause! It’s fucking awesome! The bass is off-the-scale crazy. I don’t…
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…
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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Due to the newly imposed public gathering restrictions as well as the continuing restrictions on travel, countries in lock-down, and general upheaval that the Corona Virus outbreak is causing around the world – the organisers of the Simple Minds convention, White Hot Day, have rescheduled the event from its original date of next Saturday, March…
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A couple of reviews of the SFY box set have been printed in both Mojo and Uncut magazines this week. The Mojo one is particularly scathing but the “fortune cookie wisdom” in regards to Jim’s lyrics in the Uncut review isn’t exactly complimentary, either! Although overall, it is a kinder review. The reissue lands in…
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