May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
My apologies once again for a vlog review – for a writer, I like to do vlog posts! I’m just conscious to the fact I will be doing a heap of writing from tomorrow onwards (uni studies, and an assignment due next week, plus writing for the book will begin in earnest now, so yes…
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Such desperately sad news reached the Simple Minds fanbase today, Jaine Henderson has passed away. I spoke to Jaine twice when I conducted my first interview for the blog. When I approached her initially she had reservations and graciously declined my request. Just a few days later though, she got back in contact with me…
As the Glasgow shows inch ever closer, I don’t think I have been this excited for Simple Minds gigs since that warm, splendid weekend in the middle of August in 2022. Everything about that weekend was incredible. And it’s going to be hard to top it. But right now, by God are they giving it…
And who could have foreseen I would be THIS excited?! But…I am!
Let me try and explain the title of this blog post as clearly as I can. As a person who feels as if they are (in all likelihood) on the autism spectrum, I had a lightbulb moment last night. I watch a selection of YouTube videos by certain autistic content creators. I’m pretty sure that…
Really sorry this is a review as a vlog post but I wanted to get my review up and posted in good time. Right now I’m just too under the weather to write out a review. My apologies. I tried to be as succinct as possible. I had set myself 45 minutes to review it…
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I made sure that I was tuned in and ready for Billy’s show last night, anticipating the middle hour of the show which would be the airing of the documentary of Simple Minds tour of Australia last month. Just prior to that, I managed to rub Billy up the wrong way. He played a track…
On the Facebook profile for Billy Sloan’s radio show he posted that this Saturday’s show the airing of ‘Simple Minds Down Under’ will take place. Of course there is the ‘mysterious’ A&R man that Billy keeps mentioning that I keep wondering whether it’s Ross Stapleton or not. I guess I’ll find out on Saturday! This…
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I am being a lazy, drained procrastinator today and posting a vlog post. Of course, it has run over an hour (just a wee bit over) so…if you have a free 65 minutes, you can see what I’m waffling on about (mainly jury service, my reason for not writing the post instead of vlogging it…
