May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I’d go to the moon and back to see these two, money and time allowing. The 14 hour round trip to Hartlepool was more than worth it. But for now I just wanted to share a fab pic of Andy and Steve (Warm Digits). Andy’s playing up to the camera. Lol I will write a…
UPDATE: A second part has been posted below. A bit of a different one for MMM this week. One I wasn’t expecting to post in all honesty. I saw this posted late last night and thought it worthy of a link. Neil Saint of Retropopic Radio talks to Derek Forbes, Kenny Hyslop and Jim Kerr…
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Apologies for the relative silence. That will mostly continue for the next three weeks until the academic year is finished. Before knuckling down in these final three weeks – we took a small break away. A two night stay in Newcastle. Caught up with my friend, Sue, when we arrived then spent some time down…
In light of last Saturday’s Record Store Day release of Neapolis, nearing the 25th anniversary of its release, there is only one song I could go for in regards to MMM today. I know many will have War Babies as their favourite track on the album. It’s a great song and much stronger as a…
Yesterday was a very special day for my uni study journey. It was the first time I had been to a face-to-face tutorial. There was an opportunity to attend one last year when this current module I’m on was under way – but, if you may remember (not sure I mentioned it), it was taking…
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This week it’s a rather tenuous Fanatical Friday. Magazine have been one of my more recent discoveries, and as a consequence of being a Simple Minds fan and through Jim extolling the virtues of the band during my years of SM fandom. The first thing I noticed was this little visual nod that Jim gave…
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Brought out as the B-side for Life In A Day in March 1979, I missed giving it a mention when I posted about the anniversary of the album in a previous post. In the early days in particular, I think the Minds recorded really strong B-sides to their singles. I have a real soft spot…
Today has seen the release of a great new video by The Anchoress. She had previously recorded a version of BLT but has re-recorded it and this version has been mixed by Mario McNulty. See what you think… The Anchoress begins her UK tour at the end of April with a run of full band…
There used to be a silly kind of shame attached to admitting to liking this genre of music. It was a long time before I admitted to myself that I liked their music. There were albums in the collection at my mum’s house that I can’t recall knowing how or why they got there. Some…
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I have been looking into various acts that I could either go and see later in the year or who I could see within the next several weeks. The gigs I have coming up are non-existent for April (my one April gig – Sarah Brown in Edinburgh – has been cancelled. Goddamn!) but I do…
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