May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It’s the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend in the UK. This involves participants observing their garden – or a local patch of nature – for an hour and recording all the different species (and highest number of each in one gathering) of birds in one hour. I will probably take part but I know already…
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In the canon of Simple Minds work, some songs get forgotten about…lost…overshadowed or under-appreciated. In making a choice for this week’s MMM, I wanted to choose a track that was topical. I was thinking about the weather and the time of year and with it being “Blue Monday” today, I thought this neglected gem needed…
I always consider it an “act of love” that these, let’s face it – barely adult boys (yes, screaming oxymoron there!) – would form a band and rehearse and play and that most gorgeous of those boys (bias!) would be the glue that acts as the cohesion to get it all to gel with his…
It’s anniversary time. Five years since I had an absolute heart attack and fell in love with Jim even harder than I ever thought possible! ???? I never thought my heart rate was ever going to return to a normal rhythm. And I was off to see kitties that day in Oz! And I had…
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That lull. That period between Christmas and New Year…when many seem to forget what day it is. Well, I know what day it is! It’s Minds Music Monday! But I fall victim of that lull period too. The limbo that drifts between Christmas Day and Hogmanay… This seemed apt.
I think sumbliminial thoughts play so much a part in one’s thought processes. I suddenly thought about the word “interference” and how much relevance it has to me right now. Yes. Anyway, this is “uber” dancey, and not to everyone’s liking, I appreciate, but I love it. The pace of it. The way they’ve chopped…
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One year ago from today (yesterday) we “moved on up to the Waterfront” and arrived in our new home, and to Scotland, and Glasgow. And on that beautiful, crisp, clear morning – despite feeling so incredibly tired and a little violated, having been robbed for the first time in my life – I already within…
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For this week’s Minds Music Monday, I thought I would combine some things. Firstly, it is Charlie Burchill’s birthday at the end of this week. Happy birthday, Charlie! Also, just a week or so ago, we saw the re-release of the Man Who Sold The world – or as it was originally MEANT to be…
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I fell in love with this version IMMEDIATELY on first play when I got the New Gold Dream box set in the summer of 2016. I find it wonderful when we are allowed to hear demos and early versions of songs. I love being exposed to that “work-in-progress’ – even if it takes many years…
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Thinking about choosing a track for this week’s MMM, it’s really easy to trawl through their extensive back catalogue to the long past. But as the proposed songs to highlight fluttered through my mind…invariably harking back to the long past, I tutted at myself. “Hey, what about the recent past? What about Walk Between Worlds?”…
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