Deacon Blue In Edinburgh In Summertime
Th is post features a video of Deacon Blue performing Someone Somewhere in Summertime at Edinburgh Castle. Click the post to view…
Category: scotland
Moans, Pleads and Pipe Dreams…
It’s all I’m seeing on the SM groups! People moaning about having to wear a mask at the Scotland gigs – YES! Wear a fucking mask, you germ-ladened cunt! Jesus Christ! You’d get a tattoo for this band. Suffer the pain of getting ink embedded into your dermis but…oh, you’re “inconvenienced” by wearing a mask…
Priptona Talks – To Graeme Thomson
The day that many a Simple Minds fan has been anticipating is upon us. Today sees the release of a new book, Themes For Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds by renowned music biographer, Graeme Thomson. Last week I had the privilege of interviewing Graeme for the blog, asking him about his career…
St Andrew’s Day – Two Year Anniversary
It’s a Happy St Andrew’s Day from me here in a rather suitably dreich looking Glesga. Yesterday it had been two years since we moved to Glasgow. There really is no other place in the world I would rather be! Even if the likes of the nurse at the local GP surgery and Vito around…
A Day “Up The Trossachs” – Loch Tay – Loch Earn – Killin, St Fillans and All Things In Between.
A lovely day out while the weather was good. I’ll let all the photos and bits of video do the talking…
She’s Keeping Him Warm
A souvenir (the rag doll) from exploring the country today. More about that tomorrow…
Jim Kerr: The Laird – Magazine Interview – 1987 (Publication and exact date unknown)
I’m guessing by the description Adam Sweeting gives of the weather “a summery day” and the talk of Live In The City Of Light having just been released (LitCoL released in May), it must be around June of 1987. I thought seeing as I’ve been to South Queensferry a few times over the past 12…
Living Proof – Review – Glasgow Film Theatre – 23/9/2021
I ventured out on Thursday evening to see the second “World Premiere” (Edinburgh actually pipped us to the post the night before) of the documentary Living Proof. It dealt with looking at Scotland’s growth under Capitalism over the past 150 years, but concentrated on the rate of growth from post-WWII. Also the way Scotland has…
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The Alasdair Gray Archive – Off Topic
Lately the blog has been really focussed on Simple Minds and in particular the 40th Anniversary of Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, Rightly so. I do run this blog primarily as a Simple Minds (ie: Jim Kerr ogling) blog, with broader music topics – general album reviews, gigs reviews and interviews, etc. Anyone who has…
Minds Music Monday – Fitba Toons
In light of His Nibs’s post about the bloody fitba on Saturday, I decided this MMM should highlight tracks representing the nations. And seeing that in said post he declared his love for the English team, then we have both Jerusalem and When Spirits Rise to represent both England and Scotland. In fact, Scotland play…