Birthday Bowie
It’s been nearly nine years since we lost you, but for today let’s rejoice that you were ever here, brightening up our world and making life in general a whole lot better. Happy Heavenly Birthday, David.
Feedback Interview of the Year 2024
I’ve only recently became a regular listener to the Feedback programme/podcast. It started due to a special they had on The Archers, soon followed by an edition featuring Dead Ringers. From that point on I’ve dipped into listening to it most weeks. I knew the Interview of the Year programme was coming up. When it…
Merry Christmas From The Prip Blog
Hope you all have a safe, peaceful and happy Christmas and here’s to a stonking 2025.
Travis (+ Hamish Hawk and Juanita Stein) – OVO Hydro – 21/12/24
Well, I did wonder if I might have jumped the gun with doing a blog post about my favourite gigs of 2024 before all my gigs of 2024 had been complete. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy! Events leading up to it hadn’t been so great. My gig buddy for the show, Sue, had been dreaming…
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Billy And His Bud Talk Bellahouston
And FINALLY! Billy Sloan actually acknowledges Hamish Hawk’s existence by mentioning him in the list of support acts for Bellahouston Park – hell has finally frozen over folks! Lol. There’s also talk of the documentary too …. As well as a discussion about the ‘5 Year plan.’ Audio file below…(click to listen from homepage)
Join Th3 Minds For The ‘In Your Room’ Podcast
This is a very interesting idea and quite the opportunity to sit along side the three former Simple Minds members and asks questions and generally get to ‘hang out’ (virtually) for an hour or so. It has the potential to be cringe in all honesty. Zoom isn’t the best place for flowing conversation, you know?…
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Orwell – A New Approach To Simple Minds That Will Have You ‘Coming Up for Air’
It was an Instagram story on Graeme Thomson’s account that first made me aware of the existence of Orwell. He had been sent a vinyl copy of Simple Minded, with its wonderfully stylised artwork – a subtle but very obvious homage to the Sons and Fascination album cover. I was impressed by its look and…
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The Best of 2024 – Part Two – The Rest (Mostly Podcasts)
Comedy: The only stand-alone gig that wasn’t just going to see a recording of Breaking the News was seeing a WIP pre-Fringe show from Elaine Malcolmson at Van Winkle in the West End in June. As for films – the only film I saw at the cinema this year was seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey…
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Gaslight Hawk
Ah now, come on Billy Sloan. As a professional radio presenter and music journalist I actually thought better of you, I did. But this last showing of your obvious prejudice is enough. I’m outing it! You see, for some time now, I’ve been getting the feeling that dear Mr Sloan isnae a fan of the…
The Cat Has Been Set Loose – Look Out Pigeons!
It’s sad it had to come to this. Bitterness from both sides – fans are ultimately the meat in the sandwich. I really do understand and empathise with (at least from the outside looking in as a fan) why Mick, Derek and Brian feel so embittered – particularly Mick and Derek because … let’s be…
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