May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
While the Antipodes is going nuts for some band or other hailing from Glasgow, it was time for me to put my gladrags on (well, suitable garb, at least) and head to Glasgow’s East End to the iconic Barras for what promised to be a (if not THE) highlight of 2024 and watch the New…
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Despite how, in many ways my fandom feels like it is in decline… I don’t want to say too much. I am, for the most part, trying to stay away from it all – as, at times, it can be too painful. Akin to the loss of a loved one. This morning I had a…
On the 40th anniversary of Simple Minds’ first UK Number 1 charting album, Sparkle In The Rain, being released. I felt it was probably time I should reveal some details on ‘The Project’ I have been alluding to over recent weeks. I have been quiet about it until now for fear I would put the…
This is the kind of content that was needed for Everything Is Possible. Just so, maybe, it felt a little less Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill centric. I still naively want to believe that when they started out, they were a creative unit, rather than Batman and Robin and whoever else they thought fitted in…
The title of this post sung out like New Warm Skin. UPDATE: There’s a part two! Anyway… needed to purge. Contains swearing!
And so, the first gig of the ‘Global’ tour is under their belts. The atmosphere looked good. The weather, despite the image shared by Jim that Del Boy had taken from the stage may have shown overcast condition and a bit of moisture was hardly conducive to the absolute dumping that I experienced at Blenheim…
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Mister has reappeared in my dreams again! I can’t help but feel that with this one there was much more to it than had met the eye. The timeframe was the present day. I had come across footage on YouTube I’d never seen before. You know, we all end up down that YT ‘rabbit hole’…
I have been having some strange dreams of late. A few nights back I had a dream that I was with a friend. This friend I have never met in person and, of course, it was the music of Simple Minds that brought us together. I really admire this person greatly. She has such self-belief…
I received a message via my blog that was the most beautiful thing I have ever read. I am going to respect the person’s wishes to remain anonymous and their words to be private but, honestly…I can’t even begin to express how this message has affected me and touched me. Every time I question myself…
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