Interesting!
I know they probably rehearse many songs….but…considering we are a WEEK away from the first Acoustic Tour gig (next Saturday, Essen, Germany)….this makes for very interesting viewing!
Category: simple minds
Gig Countdown – Nice Round Figures…
Bookends – Glasgow starts my “gig hop” tour, Dublin ends it…
The Greatest Show On Earth Is Here Tonight…
The painting I did today made me melancholy. I had never heard of the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin until his recent death. He seemed very prolific…and seemingly he had a compulsion. A drive. Not because he felt as though he actually painted “subjects” or even ENJOYED the creative process, but because…he just had to to….
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It Ain’t HALF bad!
Working on some logistics tonight, re: gig hop tour, I came to the realisation that I am going to exactly HALF of the shows on the UK/Irish leg of the tour! There are 18 in all – 15 in Britain, one in Belfast, and two in Dublin – and I am going to NINE of…
Why I Love…Sweat In Bullet
Just right from the off it’s FUNK (not just with a capital F) There’s no fade up…we’re just – BANG! – in! Everything is funky…even the keyboards. Charlie has a short, shrift riff. Derek’s bass is funky as all hell. That keyboard funk though…and then Jim’s amazingly fragmented lyrics. The way he writes on Sons…
Glasgow Countdown!
EIGHT WEEKS! Ooh, they’ll WHIZZ by!
Hi Res Cover
I tried to get a hi res scan of the cover – struggled to do it cleanly as I only have an A4 scanner and the magazine is larger than A3. Will try to render a better copy, but for now, this is it!
And Then There’s THIS!
He is divine! Beautiful! Sex on a swivel chair! All the superlatives in the world…