May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I think I have a final tally and “want” list with Virginia. I visited her on Saturday and came away with 13 original vintage prints and a big old list of digital prints to be done. It’ll be some collection at the end of it all….
Hey peeps! If you find yourself in Brighton on Sunday, you could do worse things than get yourself to the Volks Club along the seafront in Brighton. There’s a celebration of all things Mod going on over the weekend and on Sunday, Virginia Turbett will be there selling Mod themed prints – both digital prints…
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So, here’s the thing. I was working on social media and my work took me to Instagram. The name Tom Sheehan pops up. A photographer. I thought “His name seems familiar to me in terms of having worked with Simple Minds. I’ll go to the blog and search for him and see what crops up.”…
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In January last year I went and visited Virginia Turbett so I could take a proper and extensive view of her archive of Simple Minds images. She has something like 1000 images or more of the band so you can imagine what total fangirl heaven I was in just even TRYING to view over 1000…
All those amazing photos. Amazing. They are! Dunno who wrote this ? but I like it!
Early days for content but it will soon build. I cannot recommend this lady enough – esp. for Simple Minds content – but she has such an extensive catalogue of artists and bands she’s photographed. You name them, she’s probably photographed them! Please check out her stuff ? View this post on Instagram A post…
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There’s a new Hanging Around book release featuring the photography of Virginia Turbett. The book in question features photos of The Ruts (aka Ruts DC – as they are known these days). The book called “South Of Babylon: The Ruts 1978-1979” is available to pre-order through the Hanging Around Books site and is released on…
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Had a go at tidying up the image of Jim in the SSIS fold-out poster with the 7” vinyl. Don’t know if any of you guys have a crease proof copy, but I don’t…and I have three of them! Lol. 30+ years of being folded up will do that. The crease stubbornly would fall all…
Weyhey! Kind permission for sharing given by Laurine Payet via The Lemon Twigs fan page on Facebook. You can see all the photos taken by Laurine by visiting her site: https://upkominguk.com/2019/02/28/the-lemon-twigs-roundhouse-27th-feb-2019-photos/ Who dat in the foreground at the front in the stripey top? Why that would be me, that is!
I would love to be in a position to buy quite a number of Carly’s prints but as the cheapest is as close to £200 as you can get (minus shipping)…well, it is unlikely. Two at best – unless he offers a (considerable) discount for buying in bulk? I mean ten prints will be £2000!…