May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Well, the reading of the manuscript by a lady in French is the first indicator that something about this song is going to be a little “left field” and wonderfully avant garde. Not to mention the rather unsettling and creepy sounding reversed words at the very intro of the song. It was only VERY recently…
This is beautiful…even if I do say so myself! It helps that the subject matter is beautiful though… Oh, fucking hell in a handcart, I’m a lost cause!! Not done any LDF inspired stuff for a while either…
Yes…gonna have to stop spending! NEED TO SAVE FOR GIGS!!!
Yep…it’s an instrumental. Well, it DOES have words…of a sort 🙂 Lyric of the day (instrumental) Song: Veldt Album: Real To Real Cacophony Year of release: 1979 Written by: Simple Minds
I think I might have just scored me a first pressing copy of Empires And Dance on Discogs. I bloody hope so!! I’ll be OVER THE MOON if so!! :-)))
Well, definitely not one *I’d* seen before! Oh, man alive, he is beautiful in a suit! Jim Kerr, you are a gorgeous, gorgeous man! I am SSOOO KERR-sed! *sigh* https://instagram.com/p/BF4TTTrk2lw/
A bit late…but nice to read more of the transcript of Damon Albarn’s acceptance speech at The Ivors and his credit and appreciation to Simple Minds. And, yes, Damon…the Minds were MUCH cooler than U2 then (maybe even now?)…if only I had known! Regrets… I’ve had a few… But then again… (This one hurts to…
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Another pic from the NGD photoshoot surfaced today. I love this set of photos. I would gladly give credit to the photographer – perhaps it was the same guy who did the photography for the NGD album cover? If so, the credit goes to Jamie Morgan.