40: The Best of 1979-2019 Review
Classic Pop’s Wyndham Wallace reviews the “40” compilation in the latest issue of Classic Pop magazine in his own inimitable backhanded complimentary style…
Category: simple minds
The Best Interview Of 2019 Goes To…
“The NME hardly ever gave us any column inches anyway, and when they did they’d slag us off.” Bullshit, Jim! Lol This has GOT to be one of the best interviews in some time. I’ve heard most of the stuff before…but it’s great to read it over again. And I can hear Jim in my…
It’s Kinda Quiet…
Again. I mean…we’ve got the tour coming next year. LITCoA recently came out. The “40” compilation is released on Friday – the day after I turn 49 (HELP! Lol) They’re at the Scottish Music Awards at the end of November. And of course there are other extenuating circumstances why things have been quiet. And on…
More To The Collection
I think I have a final tally and “want” list with Virginia. I visited her on Saturday and came away with 13 original vintage prints and a big old list of digital prints to be done. It’ll be some collection at the end of it all….
Live In The City Of Angels Breaks Into Official Album Chart Top 10!
New in at No. 9 ….
Bor-D’oh!
So…on Tuesday night, I’m sitting on the bed, thinking about the Simple Minds gigs next year. Thinking of the wonderful venues and experiences I’ll have. A soundcheck in Copenhagen. Centre seats 12 rows back in Paris. A lower floor block seat in Leeds. Standing ticket in Dublin. A soundcheck and close seat in Glasgow. “Oh,…
Weyhay!!! I’m A Simple Minds Advertising Wh*re!
I decided to watch the SM 2020 Tour promo video on SMO FB…just for shits and giggles and OH MY GOD…I spotted myself and Françoise from the Aix-Les-Bains footage used in the ad. Lol. Aawww! Somewhat softening the blow of how bad that gig felt. Weird that it was used and not any footage from…
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Making Plans For Scotland…
This week I have been mostly…working out which gigs I wanted to go to…and then making the plans for a preliminary reccy to Glasgow. I started with the UK first and working with the notion that Glasgow will be a local gig so grabbed my soundcheck experience there first. After that, the next nearest UK…
Prip’s 2020 Gig Hop!
It’s a bit more spaced out than 2017 and the Acoustic tour. A little bit more like the stop-start of last year’s gigs. So…on the menu we have… Copenhagen (and OMG I can take in some Hans Christian Andersen history too!) Paris (the venue is a stunning building right on the Seine…I mean…IN THE MIDDLE…
It’s Not Personal…
Can’t help feeling I’m “persona non grata” BIG TIME right now. Oh, well. Let’s still go to a few gigs, eh? I still love him even if he disnae love me. Leeds ?? Dublin ?? Glasgow ?? And… one mainland date… but which one? And I need to bear in mind my King Creosote gig…