May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I’m up to day 9 of the favourite albums thread theme on Facebook. And, it wasn’t until I had to make a choice on Day 7 did I suddenly think, OH SHIT – I’VE NOT EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT CHOOSING A BOWIE ONE! Am I going to be obvious and choose Low? Oh, but what about…
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The inspiration can strike at the oddest times of the day…and with maximum spontaneity…(actually completed at 2.45am)
It was 41 years ago today (an Easter Monday evening) that a newly formed punk outfit called Johnny And The Self Abusers took the the stage at Doune Castle in Glasgow. This motley crew of Weegie misfits comprised within them one James Kerr, esquire…otherwise known to all and sundry as Jim, and one Charles Burchill,…
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There are very few things I would ever thank the Daily Flail for…this is one such case…churning out something that was, in essence, very old news, but highlighted something that passed me by. No, not what their pointless, typo laced pap was about (that Jones not being a particular fan of music was somehow newsworthy…
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Taken to YouTube for something and this appeared on my homepage. It had been a while, so I had to watch it. Geez he’s mesmerising! I know these days when I watch these early performances that he’s most likely off his tits…but it doesn’t make it any less fascinating. Each time I view one of…
Hark at me listening to other things this week! https://twitter.com/priptonaweird/status/983751532616339457?s=21
The Dundee Evening Telegraph is running a competition in which they are giving away a pair of tickets for the Simple Minds/Pretenders/KT Tunstall Grandslam concert finale at Slessor Gardens in September. To see details on how to enter, click here. Competition runs until 9am BST next Monday, April 16th. GOOD LUCK!
Well, at least in local Taormina and Sicilian online press there is confirmation that a touted June 24th gig in Tao is a “no go”. The gist of the translation of reports from Italian to English seems to indicate that no official word has come from SM as to the validity of this gig, or…
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A bridge version split somewhere between the demo that can be sampled on Silver Box and what gets recorded for the Sister Feelings Call album…this is the only known live recording of SM performing Careful In Career. A song that I feel is vastly underrated within the SM canon. A pity it is so under-appreciated…
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