May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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As the weather gets more dreich and the nights get longer, I naturally begin to feel less inclined to venture out of the house, especially at night for gigs – as much as I love going to them. As it was, some weeks earlier I had decided to abandon going to one gig that I…
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I am anxious, rushed, rambling, questioning – my usual scary, fucked up hot mess – but I needed to purge (and perhaps vent?) a little on the book. The first 99 pages anyway. IT’S NOT A REVIEW – it’s just my own feelings and thoughts.
I know that these days this blog is not exactly a hive of activity, particularly on the Simple Minds front currently as there isn’t much to report when it comes to the band, but also over the past 12-18 months my fandom has waned and I had also been writing my book (yeah, that still…
Read full post “Back to ‘School’ and Chapter 1 of OSATS Available” »
Tuesday was a full day. We were out the door by 10.30am and didn’t step back into the house (apart for a 15 minute pit stop) until around 9.45pm. First up was a recording for the 10th Anniversary of Breaking The News happening at the newly transferred Stand Comedy Club which has its new home…
Finally took an afternoon visit to Linlithgow yesterday, and what a lovely place it is! The express train from Glasgow Queen Street takes just around 30 mins to get there/back. The main purpose for going was to see the flotilla of narrow boats that was travelling down the canal from nearby Winchburgh (the borough of…
My most recent post seemed to herald more “interest” than is usually normal for anything I post on this blog. Just as I was feeling comfortable in my place of coming to terms with certain things to do with the past decade of my life I felt I was under attack for certain things I…
CUTLER’S CULT On Saturday afternoon I went to Edinburgh, suffering the Fringe hoards to see a new kind of show being performed by Hamish Hawk. A true performance piece titled Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 0. I’m still struggling to pin down a succinct definition of what it was other than just the…
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The initial travel plan for me was to get the CityLink 900 coach to and back from Edinburgh and then get the train to/back from North Berwick from/to Waverley. I booked the coach tickets via Megabus instead of booking via CityLink. I’d never had any problems booking with Megabus before but this time, although I…
Read full post “Hamish Hawk/Billy Nomates/Cloth – Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick 08/08/2025” »
I’ve been staying off Facebook more and more these days. Even more so at the moment, for as much as I appreciate the “Taormina Team” all being excited and ridiculously enthusiastic about being over there for those final shows, it will be all I’ll see if I open up Facebook and dare step in. I…