May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
A new bootleg has been uploaded to YouTube from the ever elusive but ever fabulous Art & Talk. This one hails from the Real To Real Cacophony Tour of 1979/80 and is performed in Hamburg on March 5th, 1980. And although still seen as the Real To Real Cacophony Tour, there are tracks from Empires…
I love these photos! There were some photos shared on the SM group page by photographer Etienne Tordoir and he linked to his archive of photos on the facebook page that is linked to below on this post. On that page were photos he took of SM performing at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on March…
I love this story Ronnie Gurr shared of how Charlie ended up with the toy saxophone that Ronnie pictured him with and is printed in the first “Hanging Around” book.
The first episode of the Soundman Confidential podcast with Francis Xavier Gallagher has landed. It runs for 54 minutes and Jim is the first guest! You can subscribe to Frank’s podcast by clicking the image below, or by visiting soundmanconfidential.com
I bury myself in the past because it is where all the best days are. Two things about these photos from Colchester Grandslam 2018 – 1) The first photo of us all lined up for the photo op – my face looks as it does as I am freaking out as to where to put…
Discussing the blog, what to do with and also the desire to revise the “Why I Love…” Simple Minds Top 50 songs.
I’ve been out today just…enjoying a beautiful, sunny autumnal day in Glasgow. It has been glorious all day and so…I’ll deal with it all tomorrow. What else is there to say but…embrace the suck!
So initially I held off getting the Heart Of The Crowd book on pre-order. I just wasn’t sure I wanted to expose myself to all those stories. I was slowly coming round to it and was starting to think that maybe it would be good. And the £45 didn’t seem too bad. A little more…
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