Smash Hits Reviews of Sparkle in the Rain and singles – 1983/84
Sparkle In The Rain era reviews in Smash Hits magazine through 1984. Waterfront achieved the high praise of “single of the fortnight”. Ooh!!
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Red Starr’s Change of Heart – Real To Real Cacophony reviews from Smash Hits 1979-1980
Two reviews of Real To Real Cacophony by Red Starr in Smash Hits magazine, late 1979. The first one (on blue page) give a somewhat disparaging but ultimately positive review and a rating of 8/10. The second review betrays the dismissive tone of the first and is utterly glowing and is rate 9.5/10!! I don’t…
Simple Minds – My First Gig – Cambridge Corn Exchange – Reaction!
Will have lots of photos and some vid footage to share later. Simple Minds were SSSOOO amazing! Never wanted the night to end! And if it were even POSSIBLE for me to love Jim Kerr any more than I do, well… He is beyond lovely!! The version of Don’t You seemed to go on FOREVER…by…
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Gig Review 17 March 1984 – Record Mirror: Simple Minds – Barrowland Ballroom – 2nd March
As the new CD boxset (and other various formats of release) of Sparkle In The Rain is now imminent, I thought it apt to share a wonderful, positive gig review of the period (no date on the piece, but with the help of the Dream Giver Redux site, I’m guessing it was 2nd March, 1984).After…
Check out: SIMPLE MINDS – SPARKLE IN THE RAIN
360magazine: Following the recent release of Big Music Universal Music Enterprises will release a four-disc digital box set of Simple Minds’ SPARKLE IN THE RAIN on March 31st. It will be the first time the entire back catalog of this era has been collected together. Originally released in February 1984, SPARKLE IN THE RAIN (title…
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Gig Review by Mick Middles: June 1979
A gig review from June, 1979. 4th paragraph in – OUCH!! But *kinda* constructive. If a review can be both bitchingly scathing yet constructive?! I’m not sure you could quite accuse them of “no stage presence” – I found Jim mesmerising from the outset. And obviously he (the reviewer) was not sold by epics like…
The New Barclay James Harvest? Tommy Udo’s Scathing Gig Review of SM at Tiffany’s 1981
Ouch!! Wow! What a scathing gig review. Tommy Udo obviously knows *nothing* about what fantastic music is! How he ever got to be a music journalist escapes me! Still, he does admit to being in a minority of one because – as he puts it – “the audience went apeshit throughout the set”. Damn right…
Gig Review from 1984 of Tour Du Monde in Music Press
Gig review of the Tour Du Monde (Sparkle In The Rain) from Dec 1983.
Bitchy Review of Sparkle In The Rain from 1984 (Sounds or NME)
A rather scathing review of Sparkle In The Rain from back in the day. Still, the guys get the last laugh, as it becomes their first UK Number One album. Transcript of article: All that glitters… Simple Minds‘Sparkle In The Rain’(Virgin V2300)** “We will rock you little chil’ ”. No, it’s not a line from…
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Review of SITR Boxset in Q Magazine
Review of the Sparkle In The Rain boxset in this month’s (labelled April 2015) Q Magazine. The picture caption says (Simple Minds in 1984) – nope, 1982 that picture was taken. I have it from a magazine clipping dated Dec 1982. Not strictly true that SITR was the first album Mel Gaynor recorded with them….