May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
On Thursday night I ended up in a Twitter conversation with Bruce Findlay, prompted by my sharing of this clipping from the NME from May 13th, 1989, from the “letters” section. I said in the initial tweet: Received a bunch of old editions of the NME today. Spied this in the back of one. Bruce…
If anyone is willing to pay this price, you are just fueling the profiteering. Seriously…wait a few months, a year….there’s no need to have it right now. Bide your time. Wait and if you still want it as a keepsake and rarity, you’ll get it for a justifiable price…NOT THIS SILLINESS!
…fuck it up. Yep, fucked up with both shadows. Fucked up with the shadowing on the neck. Have made the hand too small on the side angle. It’s starting to fall apart as I imagined it would. And I haven’t even got to his face yet… *sigh*
I listen to either a mix of Simple Minds and David Bowie on Spotify all through the night (and yes, I do fall asleep…I’m not awake all night!), or sometimes switch to just Minds only. I usually always play on shuffle mode. This moring, the song that brought me around from my deep slumber was…
Happy days!!
Well, unless it turns up tomorrow, it’ll appear that my newly acquired Sons And Fascination album promo poster has gone AWOL in the post. Nearly 2 bloody weeks since I won it! It took them 8 days to supposedly post it to me. Last Thursday they posted it…2nd Class signed for. It should be here!…
A Charlie Burchill special! 🙂
I have just not been able to tackle this until now. This idea first took form just over a year ago, these “why I love” pieces. They are for my Top 50 Simple Minds songs, and I was going to write one a day for 50 days. I quickly realised that was a bit much,…