May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Jim will be joining Zoe on Monday morning where First You Jump will get its debut radio airing and there’ll be discussion about the Live in Leeds weekend coming up in a couple of weeks. Tune in from 6.30am BST on Monday, 5 September – or catch up on BBC Sounds. BBC Radio 2
There are not that many times I have had my visage captured in the front row at a Simple Minds gig, but there I am right down the end of the row at the Princes Street Gardens gig on the Friday night (Aug 12). A very happy bunny I was too – and it shows…
Sarah Brown shared some footage of her getting some test pressings of “….Sings Mahalia Jackson” on vinyl. She also said news of where to buy it will come – but I am here to tell you… You can pre-order it already from Rough Trade! It’s due for release on October 7th and here is the…
Sheila Rock tries to tell me that Jim is ‘not a poser’ but I have proof to the contrary. Click for more!
This weekend sees the anniversary of the release of Bilndfolded as video on YouTube (uploaded to YT 4 September 2014). Seemingly it is not recognised as being a single release. Wikipedia deems Honest Town as the lead single release for the Big Music album – but the first new music I heard from SM when…
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I can’t remember sharing this at the time, I think I was keeping it all hush hush until it appeared in the Classic Pop magazine, and by then I probably was more excited about featuring in the magazine to think of showing the collection off with more clarity. These photos were taken two years ago…
And…I don’t have to travel some 400 miles this time to get to one! (Although of course this time they’re doing Manchester and London too!j Already booked, goddamn! Happy Minds Music Monday! (It threw me off my actual MMM post I was getting together when this hit.) And…come the time…HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY TO ME…HAPPY EARLY…
A person asked on one of the SM Facebook groups I am on – if you were introducing a current non-fan to Simple Minds, what song would you choose to play to them? I’ve been thinking about it over the past couple of days. One song? To encapsulate a band that has an 18 album…
YouTube video link attached to this post. Click to view…
Where do I start? I don’t even know! Strap in – it’s gonna be a long one! FRIDAY: Friday, I guess, is the best place to start. In an exercise in preserving energy (and money), we (‘we’ once again being myself and Birdy) decided to set out fairly late on Friday afternoon. The plan had…
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