May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yesterday saw the anniversary of the release of Real To Real Cacophony. In celebration, here is my favourite video of them performing Factory on Belgian music show, Folllies (yes! It has three L’s – just like me!). I love Jim in this performance sssooo much! I mean…yes…he’s obviously had a “helping hand” but hey, whatever….
With Halloween on Saturday, there was only one song left in the Halloween countdown to choose. The epic, the immense and majestic – Pleasantly Disturbed! Enjoy!
Another track that is the most Halloween appropriate SM track EVER. Not long to go now to the scariest Halloween of all – and my 50th birthday! ?????
With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I’d share some darker themed Simple Minds tracks for MMM in the lead up to – what will be – the crappiest 50th birthday I could have ever have envisaged. First up, the fabulous Murder Story…
It’s been an earworm for days. And well…I did a lot of crying yesterday. David would have called me a sook. And Jim would have said “will ya stoap yer greetin’!” So… And…it conjures up a lovely memory too.
As I have said in the past, there are few Simple Minds songs that I can’t really warm to. When I tried to put it in mathematical terms from the number of songs I overtly avoid and skip and just can’t listen to as opposed to the rest of the SM catalogue, it was about…
Almost 30 years after the previous Mr Sex-On-Legs footage from Brussels (taps aff tits oot beauty interview) – here he is still being SEXY AF! My still my exploding ovaries…
Nice to see a couple of different pics from the Minds playing Bingley Hall on September 6th, 1981 as part of Futurama 3. Does this man look sick to you? Nope! Sexy – YES! Sick, no. But he was. Poor Jim was struck by the heebie jeebies that night and also performed some “technicolour yawns”….
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This week we have an imposter for MMM. Over the weekend I was “VJing” (for want of a better term) over on the SM fan group that I vaguely help out with from time to time. We do Playbacks (long before Tim Burgess came along with his lockdown inspired “listening parties”). Head honcho of the…
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In praise and gratitude for today’s birthday boy.