Minds Music Monday – SM Perform At Verona – Recorded for RAI, Italy
Simple Minds play live at the Verona Arena performing two songs. Click the post for more…
The Anchoress (+ Leoni Jane Kennedy) – Summerhall, Edinburgh – 22/09/2023
If you have read any of my previous gig reviews you know I tend to put a very personal slant on them. This review will be no exception. I need to discuss the preamble to the gig. More so what was taking place with me before even setting out to travel to Edinburgh. Recently my…
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Well, Hello New Iva And Jim Photo!
1981 Never looked better! Jeez! Just when I thought I saw all I would ever see from those Roadrunner magazine photos – along comes THIS one shared on Icehouse’s social media earlier today! How beautiful!
Jim and Charlie Interview with What’s On Scotland
It’s a wee short and sweet one, but wonderful as ever. Ego check for Mr Kerr, please?! Lol. Honestly! Bloody hell. Click the post to view video…
The Transition Is Still In Progress – Bear With Me!
My blog? Don’t ask! Please just bear with me a while as I try and sort it out. Yes…it is going through a complete shake-up now. I guess after 8 years of it looking like it does, it was inevitable it had to go through an overhaul. That brings out the absolute worst kind of…
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Jim and Charlie on BBC Radio 5Live with Nihal
It’s a good chunk of an interview and Jim and Charlie were on great form. I particularly loved Jim’s tale of the time Charlie cut open his pinky finger in 1981, just prior to them touring Australia for the first time. Just the kind of story I was hoping for from Jim at the Paris…
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Like Two Wee Boys!
Check ’em out! Geez-o. Pair of neds. (To quote Frank Gallagher when I had a play about with him once. He shared a photo of himself posed with Jim and Charlie a few years back. I asked him who he was posing with in said photo – obviously knowing who they were. Frank’s response? “Couple…
Blessed! Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
I have been concentrating on getting my blog tidied up and streamlined. Yesterday the very hefty outlay for the blog was paid. It was also more expensive than I had anticipated so it really brought me down. As I said in a recent post, I am trying to migrate my site to somewhere else but…
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Let The Tour Commence!
Oh, such great timing. Literally on the eve of me having to fork out another £250+ in making sure this blog keeps on running….erm, thanks guys! Lol I went and looked at the info for the Hydro in the hope that I would at least be able to see a floor plan of it and…
One More For The Read…
The completist in me had me do it. And, well, I love the photo on the cover. I was also secretly hoping there’d be a quote of my review in the opening pages. Alas, no such luck. Still on the Hachette website though, so it’s not all bad.