May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage… Jim Cur! Lol (only meant in jest and for some fun, obviously. Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play with the “Kerr/Cur” homophone). ???? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jackson (@actionjackson1213)
A fantastic book filled with photos and stories of gigs featuring many bands that have played in Scotland over the peak period of 1974 to 1990 – including many local bands like Johnny and the Self Abusers and Simple Minds – could be published – with your help! A crowdfund has been set up to…
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I have to say…things is quiet on the SM front, and I do miss Mr Kerr. I hope things are okay. One can’t help but worry. I guess it isn’t our place to be concerned. It’s one year to the day since the opening Grandslam gig at Maidstone in Kent. Mixed feelings still of the…
It was going to be a long day. I had set out from home at the ungodly time of 4.30am. Plenty of time to get myself to Luton station for the 5.08 train to St Pancras. That was the theory. The practice was different! I arrived at Luton station around 4.45am. I looked to the…
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In January last year I went and visited Virginia Turbett so I could take a proper and extensive view of her archive of Simple Minds images. She has something like 1000 images or more of the band so you can imagine what total fangirl heaven I was in just even TRYING to view over 1000…
A quick interview with Jim from 1979. I feel vindicated about my thoughts on cassettes. Lol See…I don’t get the comparisons to Magazine, either. But I’d have died to have seen one of those gigs now! As for the “Secondhand Simplicity” review title? A lazy alliteration…that’s all it was. I seem to remember it was…
All those amazing photos. Amazing. They are! Dunno who wrote this ? but I like it!
She is scanned, packaged and ready to go…to travel across to the US of A tomorrow. Of course there’s a tinge of sadness…more than a tinge, in all honesty…but it helped to raise more money than I ever dare dream of for Race For Life this year. Will I ever raise that much again? Who…
Lighting the political touchpaper in 1989 with words of angst and hope, Soul Crying Out has to be one of Simple Minds’ most beautiful, heartfelt pieces on the current state of the world (of then…as it is now) as you are ever likely to hear. Starting with a soft, jangly guitar riff from Charlie Burchill…
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The Simple Minds Facebook page has updated its cover pic to a little animated video with a revolving crown on their claddagh symbol. It would seem some news of some sort must be coming… Stay tuned! (Let’s not get our hopes up too much though. I think it may just be a new release of…