My Husband! (I wish!)
My beautiful, awesome husband from last night. *melting heart* ????????????????????????????????
Category: simple minds
Simple Minds were just…
So, ssssoooo awesome at Boomerang Hickstead. Just when I think I couldn’t possibly love Jim Kerr any more – I find MORE reasons to be in love with him!! He was wonderful tonight. It was a short set, but a great one. A couple not played I’d have liked to have heard…but there you go….
Someone Somewhere In Summertime – Rehearsal 1986
simplemindsworld: Simple Minds – “Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)” (Rehearsal 1986) My GOD that is AWESOMESAUCE!!! I’ve never actually listened to this before. Just – WOW!! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Minds Meme
It’s a lovely photo of them, really – but I couldn’t resist a little fun, tongue-in-cheek meme :-))
Nostalgia Does Me
He loves me again :-)))
Jim Kerr Brighton Radio Interview
Telephone interview with Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) on local Brighton radio station Juice 107.2 FM. He discusses Simple Minds’ back catalogue, the upcoming Hickstead gig (this weekend, Sept. 12th), future gigs/tours and new music. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Once Upon A Time Box Set
simplemindsworld: Simple Minds Once Upon A Time Super deluxe out 4 Dec 2015: Oh, I wonder how much this would cost? look`s like little xmas present for myself 🙂 Looks fairly similar to the Sparkle boxset, so hopefully a similar price (£40 mark) 🙂 Looking good! Still only have the Sparkle Blu-ray, not the boxset.
Simple Minds – Capital City
Appalling quality audio and video but I love the live early stuff. The energy is not lost and Jim is wonderfully mesmerising, as ever :-))
Why I Love…Celebrate
Mick MacNeil’s synth for starters. Just right off the bat there. The pace of it. The time sequence of it. More great lyrics from Jim. “The suit he wears belongs to me” and “She rag doll, she keeps him warm” are personal faves. And such a fantastically simple chorus “We can live / I can…
Why I Love…Kant Kino
It’s short, succinct and beautiful. It starts off as a segue from the end of Thirty Frames A Second (another song in my Top 50 that will get its own post at a later date), with the sound of a reel to reel tape spinning, tape clacking over the spindles. A soft, haunting guitar from…