May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Some newly acquired stuff by The Anchoress, a touch of Minds, and a play of Blackstar. This really is my current favourite version of Promised You A Miracle. Jim’s vocal is right up in the mix on this. I love it! I like the stuff on the Acoustic album, I do. But there are tracks…
And interview with Jim with Belgian station Nostalgie. Thanks to Mandy on Facebook for alerting me to this. 🙂
Wanted to have the picture discs accompanied with something to fill the space. I thought of CD covers and was initially going to keep a theme and have Promised You A Miracle and Glittering Prize or SSIS in the frame…but they were a bit big (they were old style single sleeve CD cover inserts in…
Squeeeee!!!
I love this picture of Jim holding up a picture of David! Melting heart…melting heart! ?? I had a go at taking away the writing with my editing app. Not 100% done…but good enough. I can’t take the credit for the screengrab. That’s from fanpage.it – as is the interview video it came from. Watch…
Another London show booked! Back of the stalls this time. Charlie’s side of the stage. That’s a first! Stalls – Row YY, seat 26. Thank you! Now just the long, long wait for the spring…
Having involved myself with a great simultaneous live “listen to” on the Simple Minds International Facebook group…I thought I’d share my thoughts on the album, track by track. Now, if you are a reader of my blog and/or know me from the Simple Mimds fanbase, you probably know that if I don’t like something, I…
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The guys won an award too. “Best Performance”. https://twitter.com/sean_nicol/status/798927858907238400
https://twitter.com/the_rosser/status/798942658131558400 Exclusive: Jim Kerr & Charlie Burchill from @simplemindscom perform LIVE at the @forthone #ForthAwards today in #Edinburgh pic.twitter.com/Hx56r8eD0m — Scot Sun LifeStyle (@scotsunstyle) November 16, 2016
Our bhoys will be back on Top Of The Pops from 1982 on the BBC Four repeat that’ll be aired next Friday November 25th (Acoustic vinyl release date – coincidentally!). This time they’ll be “performing” (it’s a mime/lip synch) Glittering Prize. They actually went in and recordered it TWICE! So…it begs the question…will it be…
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