The Boy In Blue
Looking…I gotta say it…BEAUTIFUL in blue…from Cherisse’s Instagram account. Oh, you and me both, Cherisse…you and me both (in awe…Sunday…Colchester…rendered dumb…what’s a girl to do?!)
Category: simple minds
The Story Of Scottish Pop – Part One – Pop Music
The Mister is involved in this first episode of BBC Radio Scotland’s – part of the celebration of Scottish music and part of the Rip It Up exhibition that is currently on at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinurgh, until November 25th. Vic Galloway presents all four parts of the programs. This first one…
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Simple Minds – Grandslam – Colchester Castle Park – Photos
I seem to have missed one. I had 53 to share, but only 52 downloaded. I’ll share the other seperately when I can work out which one that’s missing. When viewing at the blog site, click on the thumbnails to see larger images. Images can be enlarged further by clicking at the bottom right of…
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Colchester Videos
Hunter And The Hunted and The American have been posted on the main review thread. Following is Promised You A Miracle and a Alive And Kicking/Sanctify Yourself/End of gig “Dad Dance” mega clip. There’ll be snippets of Let There Be Love and All The Things She Said added shortly… Enjoy!
Review: Simple Minds – Pretenders – KT Tunstall: Colchester Castle Park – August 26th, 2018
I have to prefix this by saying…rather sadly now, this is my last Simple Minds gig for the foreseeable future. There are some Grandslams left, of course…Swindon, Ardingly and Taunton next weekend, and Inverness and Dundee the following weekend…then off they go to Mexico, the USA and Canada. Exciting times ahead for the band. But…
Jim Kerr on Saturday Live – BBC Radio 4
Jim was on Radio 4 this morning as part of the guests on Saturday Live. I’ve edited a copy for the blog for permanency and for overseas listeners to enjoy. Listen below…
Is Prip Back?
Well, this is the first little thing I’ve done in over two months. Might as well try and get the eye in again, and try and get back to something. Hope the muse returns. Try to push it into coming back. It may lead nowhere…I may come back with full flourish…OR BETTER! (Geez, I hope.)…
What To Do?
I really don’t know what to do with this blog at the moment. In the past, today would be a “Kerrsday Thursday” – the day coined as a lame excuse for some ogling. Be it by pictures or video. I’ve pretty much shared every pic I have been able to without infringing copyright…and others I…
Dream Given!
simpleminds.org – aka Dream Giver Redux – has been my ABSOLUTE Simple Minds bible for these past four years. Esp. in the early days of my fandom. Daily visits…devouring voraciously the wealth of information on the site. It was utterly invaluable and helped me learn so much about the history of the band and a…