May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….
I know that these days this blog is not exactly a hive of activity, particularly on the Simple Minds front currently as there isn’t much to report when it comes to the band, but also over the past 12-18 months my fandom has waned and I had also been writing my book (yeah, that still…
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Well, at least ONE Gorbals boy anyway (not sure of Burchill’s origins before his family were rehomed at Toryglen – guess I’ll find out soon enough, if such info is revealed in the book?). What am I on about? The news today that the run of Kerr/Burchill book launch dooberries is happening at the recently…
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In case you missed it, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt (aka The Rockonteurs) spoke with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill about their forthcoming (released on 2 October) memoir Our Secrets are the Same. Strap in, it’s just over an hour long! You can listen to the episode of the Rockonteurs podcast via the Spotify link…
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I’ve been keeping an eye out on the book review sections of the music magazines to see if and how they’re rating Our Secrets Are The Same. So far, there have been two reviews. Uncut concentrated on Blitz as their feature book with the Kerr/Burchill offering relegated to the “also ran” bullet-point rating of 8/10….
Details for London’s appearance have landed, with JK and CB in conversation with Mariella Sometimes. Taking place at the British Library on Tuesday 21 October at 7pm. London prices too at £20 a ticket! (Edinburgh is only a tenner. Fooking hell!) Handy for the Londoners and those that live within travel distance – the British…
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A post on the Simple Minds Facebook page confirmed there will be other signing events taking place in Glasgow and London (as well as the Toppings Edinburgh event) but the ‘cloak and dagger’ continues. Now, for me, I don’t give a flying hoot about attending any of these signings but I know a number of…
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UPDATE 19/09/2025: Thanks to Scott for the heads up on the change of date to the event. It’s now taking place (at least for now!) on Monday 20 October at a different venue. If memory serves me well, it’s the same venue where Graeme Thomson was in conversation with Bruce Findlay back in August 2022….
CUTLER’S CULT On Saturday afternoon I went to Edinburgh, suffering the Fringe hoards to see a new kind of show being performed by Hamish Hawk. A true performance piece titled Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 0. I’m still struggling to pin down a succinct definition of what it was other than just the…
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I’ve been staying off Facebook more and more these days. Even more so at the moment, for as much as I appreciate the “Taormina Team” all being excited and ridiculously enthusiastic about being over there for those final shows, it will be all I’ll see if I open up Facebook and dare step in. I…