May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I’d share some darker themed Simple Minds tracks for MMM in the lead up to – what will be – the crappiest 50th birthday I could have ever have envisaged. First up, the fabulous Murder Story…
Made some banners. Ostensibly exactly the same banner just with one word different. I couldn’t decide whether it should be my heart or my ovaries that should be still… Decisions, decisions…
Seeing Out The Angel. It’s shit. Worked on it forever. Embrace that I suck. You know what I am best at? FUCK ALL. I am great at being absolutely great at NOTHING. Oh, and I have the AUDACITY to call this “art”. Lol. Fuck me. What a fucking moron.
Tomorrow is National Album Day and it has a theme this year – the 1980s. Celebrations abound over the next 48 hours or so. Special limited edition albums and singles are to be released today, available in record stores across the country. Tim Burgess is holding a day of themed listening parties via his “Tim’s…
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Someone I follow on Facebook shared a post by John Foxx’s page (actually officially labelled as “John Foxx and The Maths”) in which he posted this image of a letter from David Bowie to Tony Visconti. Foxx added – “Interesting to read this note from David Bowie to Tony Visconti from the 1970s – sending…
Click on the link below to view. Exactly 8 weeks until release. I’m sure it’ll sail by! (Let’s hope it does anyway.) www.facebook.com/100317830048162/posts/3358896264190286/
Discussing the blog, what to do with and also the desire to revise the “Why I Love…” Simple Minds Top 50 songs.
Because…I don’t know what else to do with myself. I saw this sketch on Instagram of Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill and I thought it looked really lovely. I love that the artist got Mr Kerr in the, what I like to call, the “hairdresser’s bib” – this odd black scarf/kerchief thing he wore in…
In the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine, they have gone over the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. There is now a new, revised list from the magazine. The first list was published in 2003. In 2012, they revised this list. We’ve now had this second revision. I went through the whole list, praying…
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