Happy 75th Birthday, David
“You’re spring to me, all things to me. Don’t you know you’re life … itself..” Will have to give this a listen today. Celebrate a magnificent life.
Category: rock
January – Go! Don’t go!
What does one do when the creative writing well seems dry? Find a topic? Pick something? It’s nearing the end of the first week of January. I could talk to you about howJanuary feels to me? It feels like a month of 62 days! Most of the time… But this time may just be different….
Minds Music Monday – Chelsea Girl OGWT
Early days of 2022. Early days of Simple Minds. One of the very first Kerr/Burchill compositions. The bane of my amateur drumming life. My hi hat playing sucks ass. I have no rhythm. I found Glittering Prize easier to play along to than this. I doff my cap to you, Mr McGee. I’m now under…
Happy New Year
Day one of 2022…
New Release: Sarah Brown – I’m On My Way
There was new music news yesterday. Sarah Brown shared details of her debut solo album. The album is a tribute to the music of the wonderful and inspirational Mahalia Jackson. The first single off Sarah’s album, I’m On My Way, will be released on the same day as Themes For Great Cities, January 27th. The…
Review: Themes For Great Cities – A New History of Simple Minds by Graeme Thomson
“This is a fast story”, author Graeme Thomson says at the beginning of the book and keeps reminding us a few more times further in. It’s a story of the formative years of two pals from Toryglen, their school chum down the road, the keyboard player from the Chinese restaurant and the bass player that…
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Santa’s Christmas Day Delivery
Of course Santa seemed to arrive early to Casa Read with the arrival of Graeme Thomson’s Themes For Great Cities (which I am just under halfway through and absolutely ITCHING to review here – but want to complete it first) a few days ago. But he returned yesterday to deliver these… All gratefully received. Books…
Merry Christmas From Little Brown Books!
This arrived in the post this morning. I am literally like a kid at Christmas!!! So very excited to be reviewing the book for the blog. The review will be up on the blog VERY soon. As will be details of a giveaway of copies of the book! Exciting times. Keep an eye out for…
Minds Music Monday – Warm Digits Christmas Takeover!
Seeing as it is the MMM before Christmas and there is not a SINGLE Simple Minds Christmas song – AND the boys performed this on Thursday night for me – I thought it appropriate that this year’s Minds Music Monday before Christmas should actually have a Christmas song….so it’s being hijacked by Warm Digits and…
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Review: Warm Digits – The Cluny, Newcastle – 16/12/2021
What can one say about the year 2021? Not a lot. It started out quite abysmally and it took quite a few months before things slowly started to feel like they were getting better. We deluded ourselves we were getting on top of Covid. The vaccine roll out happened and the FM (First Minister of…
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