Hold Back The Tears To Another Day…
On a quiet night…
Category: simple minds
DARK FLOWERS NEWS! New EP Arriving March 19th – FULL Album To Follow Later…
The Dark Flowers (aka Paul Statham and friends) are set to release material in a few weeks time, featuring guest vocalists that we know and love. First to launch will be E.P. “Death and Desire”, released on March 19th and featuring guest vocal performances from Gabriella Cilmi, Shelly Poole and our very own Anchoress. Lead…
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New Kerrsday Treasures
Some new arrivals for this Kerrsday. The first three are all promo photos taken of Jim inside the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. The black and white photo has a newspaper headline attached to it on the back that translates in English as saying, “Jim Kerr in Simple Minds visited Stockholm Stadium on Saturday, where the…
Rock Secrets – Jim Kerr and Billy MacKenzie
This book was produced by Virgin Records in 1982, and asked rock and pop stars of the time a standard Q and A. About 40 of them were printed in the book, including one “mystery star” who if you could name and send in a postcard to Virgin with your answer, you could win a…
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Minds Music Monday – Superman V Supersoul
Today is the official calendar start of spring – but I much prefer to think of it in seasonal terms and don’t really feel any real sense of spring until the equinox on March 20th. That in mind, I wanted to choose something that conjured up warmth and light and joy and optimism, and maybe…
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Knackered Distraction
Felt very drained today. The nerves from conducting last night’s interview got the better of me and I woke up in the middle of the night with it all still swilling around in my head. Excited that it seemed to go okay and excited to share it on the blog, but still with niggles about…
Always Destined To Be The … Next Big Thing
I posted this onto SMOG earlier this afternoon – but I get the feeling it is going to be somewhat overshadowed by a wonderful post about Jim, which I am sure he will love (who can blame him?). Anyway, I thought I’d also post it here as well. (I haven’t altered the words I posted.)…
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Minds Music Monday – No Cure
Yep. There *is* “no cure” for me. Nothing else to say, really.
New Acquistions
Very happy with these babies that arrived today!