May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Again, it will be of no surprise to anyone to see Hamish Hawk’s Angel Numbers in my Top 5 Albums of 2023. It was by far my most played album of the year. Both it and Hamish’s previous album, Heavy Elevator, have been on pretty solid rotation all through 2023. The penmanship in his songwriting…
Of course Spotify Wrapped doesn’t really show the true state of the music that I was enjoying, listening to and discovering in 2023. So, I have decided to compile my favourites of 2023, broken up in three posts that I will share over the next three days. First up: My Top 10 Tracks of 2023…
To all those who have visited this blog in 2023 and for those of you who are regular visitors, thank you for your continued support. May you all have a wonderful Christmas with love from Priptona’s Simple Minds Space. Fa – la, la, la, la. La la la la la. Fa – la, la, la,…
I’ve just watched the documentary on ‘Simple Minds’ – Everything Is Possible and here are my initial thoughts and findings. Firstly, as I feared, it was essentially the Jim and Charlie story. The absence of other early members of the band really left a hole in the thing. I felt it did in any case….
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A good chunk of interview, with Charlie actually getting some air time. Interesting to hear that Solstice Kiss Birdy (how I refer to the song these days) will be on the setlist next year. A slight change to the ‘you turn me on’ story that Jim gave last year. And…barely a year into his marriage,…
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I had a notification on Facebook earlier about the SM page adding a photo, but I couldn’t see what had changed as it kept taking me to the most recent post on their page when I’d click the notification – but there was nothing added to the post. I thought nothing else of it until…
Currently I’m recovering from having a big old dose of lurgy. I’m not even sure it wasn’t a dose of Covid. I haven’t felt this sick since the last time (and first time) I had Covid in June 2022. That aside, but perhaps relevant as it may have caused my mind to fester on this…
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Yep! It’s official! My most played artist of 2023 was…no surprises here really if you’ve been taking note of the content on my blog for the past several months…. Mr Hamish Hawk! Well…who’d have thunk it? Top track of his for me was seemingly Bridget St John. It reveals a changing of the tide. For…
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Set your reminders because just a few days before the airing of Everything Is Possible, Mr Kerr will be on the radio, waxing lyrical about Mr Morrison. (Can I just say right here right now that Mr Kerr ALWAYS looked better in leather troosers than Mr Morrison.) See the details below… Jim Kerr on Jim…
The boys are on the promo trail for the Everything Is Possible documentary it seems. I’m still worried it is going to primarily be the Jim and Charlie story but I am really hoping not. I mean, come on guys! Please don’t sell it off as just you two! I know I’ve changed my mind…
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