Geez – Well If Chrissie Can Make Him Bored…
What hope the rest of us mere mortals?! I shudder to think at the boredom I induce! ??????
Category: rock
Minds Music Monday – All Tomorrow’s Parties – Greatest Ever Cover?
The more I listen to it, the more I think it might just be. If not, then a very close second to Street Hassle. So…what is it about Simple Minds covering Lou Reed songs that makes them so wonderful? Jim’s worship of Lou? Does it give an extra sense of “duty”? Does he just…care more?…
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A Change Of…Terms?
Where do I start? Well, I start by saying – the blog ends up being my safe place for a moan…a gripe…a whinge. Mostly because I know Jim doesn’t want to hear it. I appreciate that. Well, I kind of expressed, briefly, in the comments about the use of the phrase “longterm” – like how…
A Chemical Reaction
Ever heard of Galaxians? Nope, me neither until Field Music’s David Brewis mentioned them on the Field Music Instagram account on Friday. A new album of theirs (Galaxians) had been released and he was recommending it for your weekend listening pleasure. He said “our Leeds compadres Galaxians (he actually tagged their Insta a/c) have a…
Warm Digits – Flight Of Ideas – Listening Party Replay
Now Jim may well be found “in the kitchen at parties” (bedroom, more like!) – but Tim Burgess is now the self-proclaimed Twitter DJ to end all Twitter DJ’s. Since pretty much the beginning of lockdown he has held “listening parties” on Twitter. The concept being, we all join up online and listen to an…
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The Longterm?
How does one define how ‘long’ the longterm is? I ponder because in Jim’s post today he talks about the “Book Of Brilliant Things” or whatever it’s going to end up being called. The fan-based SM compendium. “….we are looking to create something to which all longterm Simple Minds fans will hopefully want to contribute…
Just Cowbell…
Hmmm…
The Anglophile – A ‘Discs And Doughnuts’ Playlist
This one started germinating from the idea of two things – the response to the “Antipodean Greats” playlist and that love of music from the UK that I always had too. “The Mother Country”, old “Blighty”. As the Australian nation post WWII looked to align itself firstly with America and then in more recent years…
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Lanark – Close To Home
I love how close to home some of Lanark is. Cowlairs and St Rollox are literally just up the road…
The Little Drummer Girl Finally Has A Kit!
I kept convincing myself I wanted an acoustic kit. Like how I kept telling myself that I wanted to learn to drive a manual car. And like with the manual car when I realised that it actually would end up being faster and easier to learn to drive an automatic, I decided that if I…
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