And Here Lies The Question…
And it feels timely and prudent…. At around the 3 minute 30 second mark. God, I hope he’s right!
Category: simple minds
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – The Lyceum, London, Oct 26th, 1980
A Sunday evening gig. OH MY FLIPPING GOD – THEY WALK ON TO KANT KINO!!! Could have better sound quality…a better quality recording exists, by all accounts. This version is obviously a tape of a tape of a tape and running a little fast…Jim’s voice is almost chipmunk-esque at times, though he usually has a…
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When The Shit Hits…
…the fan…or should that be the FANS? And then to FINALLY talk about it openly and STILL be accused of being cryptic? Poor, Jim. The undercurrent for anyone with an INKLING of savvy has been that for weeks….months now that it’s “all change” on the SM front. I don’t want to go over it all…
Another Turbett?
I love this man far, far too much! This absolutely made my night (even if he is dissing ELO…like a bitch! Lol). Thank you, Sir! I love you ?? You could have spelled her name right though… (If not immediately obvious, I had posted to the visitor wall about said photo…little expecting ANY response to…
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Mars Bar, July 30th, 1978 – Part 5
Ooh…one that made it on the album! And a personal fave…in my Top 50 – Murder Story
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Mars Bar, July 30th, 1978 – Part 4
This one at least made it to demo – Act Of Love (of course, it later becomes a line used in Celebrate “Act of love is a luxury” and Glittering Prize “called an act of love / can you never stop”)
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Mars Bar, July 30th, 1978 – Part 3
Yet another unreleased track to enjoy, You Better Watch Out.
It Still Just…Means So Much…
And it always will. When this notification came in last night, I was looking at a post of his from July, 2016 about Somebody Up There Likes You and his friend George Golfi listening to it on his Walkman and saying they’d be nuts not to include it on the album. I was reading through…
Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Mars Bar, July 30th, 1978 – Part 2
Another unreleased track that’ll only ever be heard on this recording, “Take Me To The Angels”…reKERRing themes…