May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Although this is essentially a blog from a personal angle, and not meant to be seen as a professionally run Simple Minds blog…by ANY means, I am humbled and somewhat dumbstruck that I have a readership and visitors to this site. To those who subscribe, and to those who visit, I wish you all a…
This one I need to enquire about. Pretty certain it is one of Virginia’s (hence the photo credit).
Brilliant stuff!
I have wanted to see Franz Ferdinand since I first got into them waaaaay back in around 2004. Very nearly got tickets to see them play with Sparks, but then had a change of heart. But THIS was too good an opportunity to pass up! The new album on CD *AND* A TICKET FOR £12!???…
I LITERALLY WANT TO CRY! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS AFTER ALL THIS TIME! AND…I COULD HAVE HAD A COPY. FUCK YOU RARE RECORDS FOR GETTING MY COPY LOST IN THE POST (SUPPOSEDLY!) AND THAT PHOTO IN THE SPREAD IS SSOOOOOO A VIRGINIA TURBETT…I WILL PUT MY HOUSE ON IT (I am sssssoooooo asking…
I must get me a copy of this magazine…it’s called Chart Beat. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of it. This is inside issue number 19…early 1983. I detect a visit to eBay at some point in the future…
A Sunday, pre-Christmas gig – PAKCED with songs from the yet-to-be-released Sparkle In The Rain. Imagine them doing that now? Us getting gigs with half of Walk Between Worlds airing BEFORE release date? Okay…it could be argued they did that slightly with Acoustic…but nothing on the album was new material, so it doesn’t count. A…
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A shame I can’t make any more. The fans want it. Like…really!
After multiple listens to the song, I now think I need to slightly alter the lyrics, so I have updated them, and my lyric art piece, accordingly (and while at it, gave the lyric art piece a subtle improvement…though to be fair, it was pretty perfect as it was) 🙂 Magic Now I believe in…
Well…last Christmas it was the dream of being hugged by Jim on the Renfrew ferry in 1983 that became manifest and real at Bridlington in May. So…what do I possibly ask Santa for THIS year? More of the same? Geez, I wouldn’t say no! Perhaps MUCH more of the same? As in…more time with him…?…
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