May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have four of them completed. The fifth will be truly unique as the winner has asked for a mix of favourite songs and favourite venues. I have the songs loaded up…I just need to work on the venues…the hows and why-for’s of slotting them in and how to make it work and look dynamic….
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Just over 12 months from their previous appearance on The Tube, Simple Minds return. It’s not the best quality footage…but it expresses the dynamism of the band. My favourite part is when Jim’s mic is obviously starting to give him problems. Instead of stopping proceedings like a lot of other performers would, he just throws…
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Might as well get it over with. It really *is* “rob a bank” time. Or…time to sit some gigs out ???? Not sure my heart will be able to take it either way… Swindon – close to a friend. Taunton – also possible…near-ish same said friend. Leeds, twice! Close to a friend – and what…
It snowed ALL morning along the East Midlands and into East Anglia today (Dec 10th). Luton copped several inches of snow, as did Bedford, the location of this year’s final and quite unexpected gig. That of Alexis Taylor and Green Gartside. The weather did its best to deter us going…but no…my partner had waited over…
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I love the writer’s frustration in not being able to see them play. Esp. the second of the gigs he wanted to go to. Geez, you had to be over 21 to get into Saints And Sinners?! Look at the median age of the guys in the band! What a crock! Bloody hell!
I have always loved the final few seconds of the Love Song video. As all the other patrons are trapped in the nightclub by an invisible barrier…Jim and the boys just walk on through without a “Kerr in the world”. Lol. Jim even gives the patrons around him a cursory (or should that be KERRsory?…
Saturday, June 23rd, 2012…not quite a 5×5 tour set, but near enough minus them performing Moscow Underground, Waterfront, See The Lights and Don’t You. This festival is a FREE ADMISSION festival! OMG…I’d have DIED to see them for nowt! At the 18 minute 55 second mark, there is a rather sexy AF version of Celebrate…
Read full post “Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Danube Island Festival, Vienna, 2012” »
Was looking around for ideas for this week’s “weekend whirligig”, when I spies this! (No Hokusai scarf! Come on, Sir! Give it an outing…please? 🙁 )