May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
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…
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…
EIGHT WEEKS! Ooh, they’ll WHIZZ by!
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!
He is divine! Beautiful! Sex on a swivel chair! All the superlatives in the world…
That’s all… (For some reason Facebook links aren’t working properly at the moment, so I took a screengrab of Sir’s blurb. Of course, the whole thing is on the SMO Facebook page.)
How very remiss of me not to mention that during the 6 Music Festival that’s happening in Glasgow this weekend, that Mr Kerr himself will be on on Thursday evening with Steve Lamacq – finally going back for another dose of being on the Roundtable by the look of things. AT LAST! Well, at least…