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Tired Of The SMOG…
It’s just the same old crap over and over. Are the band the same without Mick, Derek, Mel? Are they even Simple Minds with only Jim and Charlie left? They’re a mockery now. Play Butlins. They’re not Simple Minds any more. YA DA FUCKING YA! Is it any wonder I am steering clear of the…
Minds Music Monday – Promised You A Miracle – Top Of The Pops
Sometimes you DO just want the hits. I have always liked Promised You A Miracle – loooong before even being a fairweather Simple Minds fan, let alone this….monstrosity of a fan I am now! Lol And I love just about every version of the song, bar one. Deciding on which version to share for this…
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Fan Art No. 998
Promises, promises…
Priptona Talks – To The Anchoress
The new album by The Anchoress, The Art of Losing, is the follow up to debut release Confessions Of A Romance Novelist. Under her everyday name, Catherine Anne Davies, she had been a touring member of Simple Minds since 2015 and also toured as support for the band as The Anchoress during their UK leg…
Barras Bootleg At Christmas 1983 Is The Glittering Prize!
A “new” recording from Art & Talk was dropped late on Monday night. A true bootleg, recorded from within the crowd. For a bootleg, the quality is absolutely AMAZING! They open with Waterfront. Jim intros it with “this is Barrowland, this is Christmas, you’re Glasgow and this is Waterfront.” Later on in the song, Jim…
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Simple Minds – Special Rock – Belgian Magazine – 1985
Won this magazine on eBay. Came from a seller in Belgium. I have scanned the whole magazine and will share it soon. In the meantime, I just wanted to share the images that I scanned of the magazine. I tried to clean them up and stop them from looking like little black and white Lichtenstein’s….
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Minds Music Monday – Love Song – Copenhagen 10/3/2020
Almost one year ago to the day was, not only my last Simple Minds concert to date, but the last concertI I went to full stop. I had 13 other Simple Minds gigs to come – Paris, Bordeaux, Leeds, Dublin, Glasgow, Blenheim Palace, Taormina, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Aberdeen – then off to the holy grail gigs…
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Rare Kerr Photos Are Like Buses
Yesterday four arrived and then today, another four! The first one is another from the photoshoot at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, and the next is one from the day before the gig, taken on June 8th, 1989. So I kind of now have a complete set of photos of the Street Fighting Years gig…
Hold Back The Tears To Another Day…
On a quiet night…