Four Weeks!
Missed sharing the countdown clock update for the week… The next several weeks are going to be ssooooooooo flipping exciting!!!
Category: rock
The Big Four O!
And as I was retiring for bed last night (well, technically early this morning – as it was posted at midnight on the dot!) a post landed on the Simple Minds FB page… Of course there is no recording that exists of that first gig, that I am aware of anyway, but here’s a version…
King Is White – And Jumping About Like A Jack Rabbit!
I think I have seen bits of this footage before…but not this particular clip. Odd kinda version of King Is White…it’s a bit…”busy”… but hey…boy be looking good (queue endless waggling of eyebrows).
Tweekly FM Stats – Jan 16th
https://twitter.com/priptonaweird/status/953326037659799553
Overly Sentimental Pap…With A Very Thinly Veiled Message…
Geez…I miss the daily interludes….
Jim And Charlie Walk Between Worlds Signing At HMV Glasgow – Feb 2nd
A very special event at the HMV store in Argyle Street, Glasgow on February 2nd. Jim and Charlie will be signing copies of Walk Between Worlds. For those with an HMV Pure card, you had priority access to tickets. GUESS WHO GOT THEMSELVES AN HMV PURE CARD JUST PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS LAST YEAR?! *points thumbs…
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Screengrabs For Tinkering…
Have you ever seen anything more beautiful? (Or wasted…) Is this what Hutch meant by “elegantly wasted”? And, yes, I only managed 120 screengrabs…NOT ALL OF THEM ARE JIM! (Okay…maybe 100 of them are) ???? *cradles self in ‘too much beauty’ painful foetal position ball* (it’s been a while…well…since the Turbett pictures landed anyway)
Review Of Walk Between Worlds In Electronic Sound Mag
A pretty darn good review of WBW in the current issue of Electronic Sound magazine 🙂
Minds Music Monday – I Travel
A really nicely done clean up job of this footage. Looks braw! Date is wrong (as of my posting)…would def. be 1980 as I Travel was released as a single in Sept. 1980. The footage now looks great though…you can see just how “wasted” Jim is…FULL glassy-eye effect. Naughty boy! Ah…those “sherbet straws”, eh? 😉
Desiderata – Max Ehrmann
The opening line to this was read out in a question on a TV quiz…and…it just struck me as sounding like the chorus to The Signal And The Noise. I had never heard of it before! It’s amazing how these things fall into place. It’s a wonderful piece of prose, and something we could all…