May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Hamish was one of the highlights of that glorious weekend last August seeing the two Simple Minds gigs at Princes Street Gardens. Michelle and I enjoyed his set so much that night that we made it our mission to see him live in his own right at the earliest opportunity. In the interim, I listened…
After last week’s stunning Kerrsday photos taken by Horst Waschinski in Cologne in March 1982 – here is another set of photos from 1982. These are from 3 September, 1982 in Helsinki. It’s officially the first gig of the LONG New Gold Dream tour that spans from autumn 1982 through to the summer of 1983….
And, boy, what a treat these are! Look at these! I found myself looking through a folder of photos linked to the Simple Minds Facebook page a few days ago and these gems showed up! Jim looks absolutely MAGNIFICENT in these. What a babe! I wanted to share these ssoooo much but decided that the…
It was a very frosty evening on Wednesday night. The UK has been suffering from an Arctic freeze blast for the past several days with most places experiencing snow. Glasgow is one of the few places to lay low enough in the Clyde valley to miss the snow, but the temperatures have been incredibly cold…
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So, what do I say here? This is the inaugural post for Fanatical Friday and it can be about anything music related. It doesn’t have to be about Simple Minds…but…this first one will be. Last night I listened to “Traffic” and the Acoustic Mix of it. That aspect I will leave for discussion on Monday…
A new Art & Talk special. Yes, it has taken me a few days to get to it but I did finally listen to it last night. And what a wonderful mixed bag it is. I had prepared myself for Jim’s ‘lazy crooning’ stuff that he did in the mid nineties – a style of…
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So, I was working on my assignment for uni on Tuesday, conscious that time was ticking to get the essay written so I could hand the assignment in on time by Thursday afternoon’s deadline. I kept on lapsing in and out of the work, just to help to ultimately keep engaged with it and get…
Oh, something to be happy about! Yay! Still struggling to get my essay together for uni – just refining, editing, wanting to present it well, etc. Other things aside of that too still niggling away too. Never mind! The assignment IS the priority for now. It’s due midday Thursday and I have more incentive than…
I know! I should be concentrating on all things Direction Of The Heart right now. And trust me, my brain has not tuned out of the album, yet. Nearly all the songs from the album are jostling for position as the latest earworm. They are all on constant rotation in my head, playing non stop!…
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The decision was made to have fish and chips at home and take a taxi to the Hydro, for the RMT decided to have a Scotland wide rail strike on the day Roxy Music were playing the OVO Hydro. Up the workers! In all honesty, I am on their side. The weather was forecast to…
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