Category: simple minds
On Next Week’s Show
Ronnie talking about me appearing on his show next week. It’s really real now! Gah!!!
Waxing Lyrical On The Airwaves
This is probably going to be the biggest aspect of the whole Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call celebration, from my own personal viewpoint, than anything else I could have imagined. (Bar the band announcing some last minute gig going on in Glasgow for it. Settle down! I’ve heard NOTHING – I’m just dreaming!) What are…
Minds Music Monday – Careful In Career – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
The first thing I love about this song is…the two keyboard notes that intro it – sitting on top of another single note. Then the subtle building of the tempo with the kick drum beats. Then the snare comes in with the bass guitar quickly following. Then there’s Charlie Burchill…wailing guitar maestro. Then…the pièce de…
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Minds Music Monday (On A Wednesday) – League Of Nations – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
It’s very curious to read that League Of Nations was worked on in the early recording sessions of the Sons/Sister albums because it really does sound so incomplete! And especially given that as soon as they go on tour for the album – the first leg of the tour within the UK – they are…
Minds Music Monday – Wonderful In Young Life – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
I’ve written about this song so much – when I actually COULD write about it! When I could somehow manage to express all that it means to me. The first time I heard it I was probably only about four weeks into my fandom. It brought me to tears the very first time. I had…
Minds Music Monday (On A Wednesday!) – 20th Century Promised Land – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
As “the speed of light is moving on“ and we are now less than three weeks away from the anniversary of the release date of Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, I still have “something to prove and much to present” (to paraphrase the song being highlighted today). So, today I present a special midweek edition…
Minds Music Monday – Theme For Great Cities – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
It is by far the most revered Simple Minds instrumental in their canon. The band have never been one to shy away from putting an instrumental track (or three) on an album. From 1979’s Real To Real Cacophony having instrumentals ‘Cacophony’, ‘Film Theme’ and (the wonderfully off-the-wall and magic mushroom influenced) ‘Veldt’ on it, right…
White Hot Day – Simple Minds Fan Convention – RESCHEDULED (New Date, New Venue)
Thanks to this bloody pandemic and frigging Covid-19, White Hot Day, the Simple Minds fan convention, set to take place in the band’s ‘hame toon’ of Glasgow (Glesga) has been rescheduled. The convention will now take place on Saturday, October 15th, 2022, at a new venue, Classic Grand on Jamaica Street, Just a short (less…
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The Glittering Gorgeous Fresh Glittering Prize
Thanks for the fresh upload. Oh, this is just beautiful and clear (shame about the second of Jimmy Savile at the beginning).