May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It was a dreich old day on Wednesday in Glasgow. It wasn’t much better in Edinburgh. That’s where I was headed, more specifically to Assai Records in Edinburgh for an in-store acoustic set and album signing by James and Andy of The Twilight Sad. Their new album, It’s the Long Goodbye, was released last Friday. …
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Simple Minds are performing a one-off show in the United States in November as part of the Darker Waves festival in Huntington Beach, California on 14 November 2026. There are fan pre-sale tickets available tomorrow 2 April from 10am PST, general sales commence one hour later. (That seems hardly worth the effort IMO – also,…
I had a great night out on Tuesday night at St Luke’s watching the BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year 2026. A little preamble before getting to the nitty gritty. I coerned the Other Half to accompany me. I had initially planned to go on my own but there was a final release of…
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I absolutely made the best decision to sell on my Geese ticket and make space in my schedule for Lemon Drink. It was everything I was hoping it would be. A great relaxed atmosphere filled with people looking to have a great time but not going “overboard” as I had feared would be the case…
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Some weeks back I bought a ticket for Geese at the Barras. All the music mags had their 2025 album as THE album of the year – not necessarily all placed at number one, but many had it placed within the top five. I listened to the album, and quite enjoyed it and decided to…
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… to listen to the CDs I have purchased over the past couple of months – but have I? Nope! Today was going to be yet another one of these ‘magical’ days where I’d devote time to sitting and listening and enjoying some music that wasn’t a snatch of 20 minutes on Spotify before falling…
You may have noticed a new addition to my list of gigs for 2026. One just added today. It’s all come about very unexpectedly. You see, recently when I have been awoken in the early hours and struggle to get back to sleep, I’ve been reaching for Spotify to play me some music. In doing…
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I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
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I know! It’s Christmas Day…go figure! What else am I going to do today? Take a walk? Eat myself silly (very tempting…don’t even get me started)? Anyway…this might be a short review. Then again, that could be famous last words for when have I ever written a SHORT review? Lol. All the peripherals out the…
Read full post “Del Amitri – Barrowland Ballroom – 23/12/2025” »
This goes for an hour – so you can watch it in chunks, or choose not to watch it at all. It’s not imperative. I just felt like doing this for a change. I felt like talking…lord knows why. It was attempt number two as the one I filmed yesterday felt crap. Ha ha. This…