May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Well…it started with Sophia Deboick in the New European magazine in April, 2018 greasing the wheels of me FINALLY taking a dive into Roxy Music and then my little talk with Jim about starting to get into them and him just reiterating the importance of Roxy and Bryan Ferry on Simple Minds and him (“No…
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Full details at Argos on Twitter. Closing time for entries is 17:00, Friday, November 29th. (I might be a little bit pre-occupied right at that point in time!) Good luck! Argos are giving away tickets to see Simple Minds in London next April! Simply recreate @Argos_Online's Christmas advert, featuring 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', however…
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Sydney – Melbourne – Bimbadgen
Leaked news from one of the Oz fans of THIS! SM confirmed (it would seem) for A Day On The Green at the Rochford Wines estate in Victoria for November, 2020. So, it would seem I might be spending my 50th birthday down there? Or at least travelling down there shortly after the big FIVE-O….
So…on Tuesday night, I’m sitting on the bed, thinking about the Simple Minds gigs next year. Thinking of the wonderful venues and experiences I’ll have. A soundcheck in Copenhagen. Centre seats 12 rows back in Paris. A lower floor block seat in Leeds. Standing ticket in Dublin. A soundcheck and close seat in Glasgow. “Oh,…
I decided to watch the SM 2020 Tour promo video on SMO FB…just for shits and giggles and OH MY GOD…I spotted myself and Françoise from the Aix-Les-Bains footage used in the ad. Lol. Aawww! Somewhat softening the blow of how bad that gig felt. Weird that it was used and not any footage from…
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It’s a bit more spaced out than 2017 and the Acoustic tour. A little bit more like the stop-start of last year’s gigs. So…on the menu we have… Copenhagen (and OMG I can take in some Hans Christian Andersen history too!) Paris (the venue is a stunning building right on the Seine…I mean…IN THE MIDDLE…
Can’t help feeling I’m “persona non grata” BIG TIME right now. Oh, well. Let’s still go to a few gigs, eh? I still love him even if he disnae love me. Leeds ?? Dublin ?? Glasgow ?? And… one mainland date… but which one? And I need to bear in mind my King Creosote gig…