May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The year started well. I was in Australia. I was with my mum. The weather was unseasonably cool. And then I created a little piece of fan art that blew my socks off! I had been doing these little pieces of “art”, just little highlights to Simple Minds song lyrics that particularly struck a chord…
As promised, the next few days will see me share some Virginia Turbett favourites. Not all of them wil be of SM or Jim, but today’s two are. I’m sharing these ones today because, well obviously I have seen these images of Jim several times, but I had never seen them accredited to Virginia until…
Dublin…Row E, seat 13 in the stalls!
It’s absolutely no secret Virginia Turbett is just about my favourite photographer, ever. And I said yesterday from the pic of Jim I’d not seen before unearthed from the whole Smash Hits Readers Poll thing, I want every single photo she’s ever taken of him. But, she has also taken many other gems, of which…
These guys at the front here copped an eyeful! https://instagram.com/p/BNu3lLthA59/
Now I know I am just one of many thousands of Simple Minds fans. And I know my place. I have been fortunate enough to be welcomed into the fold, not just by many of the fans, but by Jim himself on Facebook. The interactivty I have experienced has been amazing. Initially…I just wanted to…
I liked seeing this! Original source of magazine clipping HERE With a hidden Viginia Turbett special. I WANT ALL THE PHOTOS SHE EVER TOOK OF HIM!
Neither of you ever troubled it… But, Jim kind of has the last laugh… The lists from 1979 and 1980… And here is 1988’s “Most Fanciable Female” list…
It really have been some time since I did a drawing. I picked up the pencils tonight for the first time in WEEKS…probably two months or so. Start back in easy with the birds. Birds I feel quite confident with, so it’s an easy return…but I shall try to expand in the time to come….
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This kind of thing was starting to feel like a pipe dream. That I would get to pop around the UK, seeing my favourite band in the whole UNIVERSE play several gigs. I feel very, very lucky and very, very happy. FIVE GIGS! I could pinch myself! The first being the pilgrimage to Glasgow. It’s…