May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
You can’t escape it. The thing that hits you when your first hear this song is Charlie’s pedal affected riff that makes it sound for all the world like a cow has entered the recording studio to add a repetitive “mooooo” to the music. It’s a bit of an “in joke” in amongst the Simple…
These photos showed up in my Facebook memories today. Taken at my sister’s wedding on December 17th, 1988 – I only just turned 18 several weeks prior. I shared them on FB last year because I had just taken decent scans of them, them having languished in a drawer for years. I brought them back…
As highlighted on Cherisse’s social media accounts as well as the Simple Minds social media accounts, Cherisse took part in Drumathon Live last night. The Drumathon is a 264 hour non-stop drumming session, featuring drummers from all different bands from all around the globe. It’s all for charity, raising funds for the NHS and mental…
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With just under a week to go before the release of the new Field Music offering, Flat White Moon, the Brewis brothers look back through their musical output over the past 16 years with Uncut magazine.
I went into the city today and walked about Glasgow Green. As we (the OH was with me) walked down to the Green from Queen Street Station, I took photos of things that caught my eye or piqued my interest. My favourite photo I took today is this one below. It was taken while standing…
I had to turn it into something artistic…
This city builds bridges not walls ??? You can check out the website I mentioned by visiting disappearing-glasgow.com
Well, not quite. Norwich anyway. The University of East Anglia, in fact. I found myself on the hunt for something for someone last night and…going down the usual “rabbit hole” one invariably ends up at. I was on Twitter looking for relevant info to what I was searching for (no luck!) but I happened upon…
I’ve been meaning to share this here. Someone posted it on the SMOG FB page and…well, look at the photo. Jesus, he’s such a flirt! God, I’d give anything! You beautiful man, Mr Kerr. I wish I didn’t adore you so much. I love the story behind the crane. I never even thought about it…
The post I did about “The Walking Experiment”. The one that FINALLY led me to finding the quote about the line from In Trance As Mission? The Alice In Wonderland “rabbit hole” of a post that took me what felt like FOREVER to sort out? Well it led me down yet another rabbit hole today….