May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This was my first experience of seeing a play at the Tron Theatre. I really don’t know why it had taken me this long to get around to seeing a performance there. The venue had escaped my attention for the most part, I confess. I have to give kudos to Facebook’s algorithm because it came…
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But … is he right? This guy gets some factual information wrong, and I disagree on certain aspects, but 100% agree with others. Overall, he makes some really good points. See what you think. I had been thinking about sharing this video after the past 24 hours. Jim’s post today just compounded my decision to…
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Hamish was one of the highlights of that glorious weekend last August seeing the two Simple Minds gigs at Princes Street Gardens. Michelle and I enjoyed his set so much that night that we made it our mission to see him live in his own right at the earliest opportunity. In the interim, I listened…
This year feels like it has been a long one. I started university back in January and I am now working through the second module of my DipHE English. There was excitement at the start of the year with some Simple Minds related releases happening. The first being from the band themselves with the release…
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It was a very frosty evening on Wednesday night. The UK has been suffering from an Arctic freeze blast for the past several days with most places experiencing snow. Glasgow is one of the few places to lay low enough in the Clyde valley to miss the snow, but the temperatures have been incredibly cold…
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As alluded to on Friday, I wanted to discuss the curious case of ‘Traffic’ for Minds Music Monday. I’m perplexed. For a band that prided itself in not pandering to the whims and wishes of others, it seems a complete exercise in pandering to “radio play” to change the title of the track to the…
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A bit late to it. Not sure whether it was down to the date of the magazine going up on Readly or whether they are just behind the eight ball but…better late than never as they say… It’s not a bad one, all things considered. It is certainly detailed. P.S. JUMP YOU SAY? Is this…
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A new Art & Talk special. Yes, it has taken me a few days to get to it but I did finally listen to it last night. And what a wonderful mixed bag it is. I had prepared myself for Jim’s ‘lazy crooning’ stuff that he did in the mid nineties – a style of…
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So, I was working on my assignment for uni on Tuesday, conscious that time was ticking to get the essay written so I could hand the assignment in on time by Thursday afternoon’s deadline. I kept on lapsing in and out of the work, just to help to ultimately keep engaged with it and get…
I’ll be honest here and say that these days I don’t really listen to too much music at all. I’m lucky if I play maybe two whole songs in a day. That’s just how it’s been for the past….18 months or so? I think the pandemic and lockdown had the completely reverse affect on me…
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