Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) – Interview With Kat Orman on BBC Radio Oxford 29/10/2019
Jim talks to Kat about Simple Minds’ 40 year recording career and next year’s arena tour of the UK, starting on April 14 in Cardiff.
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Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) – Interview With Ewen Cameron on Clyde 2 Breakfast Show 29/10/2019
Jim on Clyde 2 Breakfast Show with Ewen Cameron on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019. Jim talks about Simple Minds’ 40 year recording career, and also joins in on a Hydro ticket give-away!
Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) – Interview on Sunday Soundtrack With Ricky Ross 13/10/2019
Jim talking with BBC Radio Scotland presenter (and Deacon Blues frontman) Ricky Ross on the Sunday Soundtrack on October 13th.
Intrigue: Tunnel 29 – Escaping East Berlin
This story is incredible and the corresponding podcast is one of the best produced podcasts I’ve heard. Part docu-drama, part narrative by journalist Helena Merriman, it tells the story of Joachim Rudolph, a defector and refugee that escapes from East Berlin in the early months of the enforcement and communist DDR crackdown on the Berlin…
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Move On Gracefully?
I will never understand in a month of Sundays WHY someone feels the need to do this – ON A FAN GROUP! I used to love U2. I’m not a fan anymore (at least, I no longer consider myself a fan, even though I still appreciate and listen to the stuff I do love)…I don’t…
40 Essential Tracks Of The (New Romantics) Scene – Changeling
I was looking through the new Classic Pop special on the New Romantics movement and wondering if Simple Minds would even get a mention anywhere. Of course they wouldn’t describe themselves as New Romantics…but they were certainly on the fringes of the scene, if not directly involved in it. And certainly their music fitted in…
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Priptona Art Used For Video Ident!
Well, this is pretty cool. Any way in which my art is appreciated and used these days makes me happy. So, to be alerted to the Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel piece being used as a FB video ident was a nice surprise – even if the FB page itself blocked me some time ago….
Sycophancy Nancy Piece No. 108
And…just to take the forlorn “woe is me” self-pity to maximum amplitude… Something I completed in the early hours of this morning.
Like A Hole In The Head…
I know I’ve said it before…I keep saying it! (Something Jim said about Lou Reed and amplifiers springs to mind!) But…I MISS THE INTERACTIVITY! I miss Jim. Looking back on my blog last November, it is just full of FB posts from Jim and me just responding to what he was talking about and it…