May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I don’t even know where to start with this one, I honestly don’t. It might be a little short and sweet because otherwise I’ll be typing out a 3,000 word post if I try and put it all in! So much happened last night. All the periphery stuff pre and post gig. Let’s just make…
I had to reply to Toni Masson’s post on SMOG. I totally get the critique coming in for the setlists so far that we’ve seen in the Antipodes. The biggest concerns for me are to do with the number of songs and the length of the set. Firstly, it shouldn’t take over 100 minutes to…
I miss that feeling of a bond. It is genuinely the thing that is the most heartbreaking aspect of this whole thing for me. I used to feel connected and now there is such a disconnect – which I feel stems from him, that is why I keep trying to push myself away (with very…
Another post about SM. Another day in which study goes out the window to be replaced with my preoccupation with this topic. I have to say when I bumped into Billy Sloan in the city back in November on the night of Derek Forbes’ talk and book signing, he played a stellar poker face to…
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While the Antipodes is going nuts for some band or other hailing from Glasgow, it was time for me to put my gladrags on (well, suitable garb, at least) and head to Glasgow’s East End to the iconic Barras for what promised to be a (if not THE) highlight of 2024 and watch the New…
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This is the kind of content that was needed for Everything Is Possible. Just so, maybe, it felt a little less Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill centric. I still naively want to believe that when they started out, they were a creative unit, rather than Batman and Robin and whoever else they thought fitted in…
It is heavenly birthdays for both: One) for the man who probably was only ever overshadowed by some Glaswegian frontman or other for my musical affections (for many a year) – Mr David Robert Jones. He’d have been 77 today. Two) for Mr Elvis Aaron Presley who would have been turning 99 today had he…
Again, it will be of no surprise to anyone to see Hamish Hawk’s Angel Numbers in my Top 5 Albums of 2023. It was by far my most played album of the year. Both it and Hamish’s previous album, Heavy Elevator, have been on pretty solid rotation all through 2023. The penmanship in his songwriting…
I’ve just watched the documentary on ‘Simple Minds’ – Everything Is Possible and here are my initial thoughts and findings. Firstly, as I feared, it was essentially the Jim and Charlie story. The absence of other early members of the band really left a hole in the thing. I felt it did in any case….
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Currently I’m recovering from having a big old dose of lurgy. I’m not even sure it wasn’t a dose of Covid. I haven’t felt this sick since the last time (and first time) I had Covid in June 2022. That aside, but perhaps relevant as it may have caused my mind to fester on this…
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