Happy Valentine’s Day
“Are those flowers for me, Jim? You shouldn’t have.” I know! What a dreamer, eh? Lol
All’s Quiet On The West Of Scotland…
Some explanation as to the (mostly) radio silence here on this blog – from the other blog (that’s been equally neglected of late)
Minds Music Monday – The Signal And The Noise
A Simple Minds album release has pretty much stayed at the regularity of an Olympiad in recent years. Black and White 050505 in, funnily enough, 2005, Graffiti Soul in 2009, Big Music in 2014, Walk Between Worlds in 2018, then Direction Of The Heart last year in 2022. Compare that to the first 5 years…
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Counting The Days To Hamish Hawk At St Luke’s.
Got some very exciting things happening soon. One involves the band below. I had to share this here! Hamish Hawk started his tour a few nights ago in Newcastle at the fabulous Cluny. The new album, Angel Numbers, has just been released and I was playing my favourite track off the album to share on…
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Fanatical Friday – v Spy v Spy
Or, as I know them better as, Spy Vs Spy – but the guys got themselves into trouble from the comic publication of the same name so they had to alter their name for legal reasons. My love for them started around 1987. They had released the album A.O. Mod. TV Vers. at the end…
Minds Music Monday – A Different “New Gold Dream”
I really don’t know why I was attracted to this. Nothing really screamed out at me that it was anything different when I first saw the video’s ident. Another remix? Hmmm, okay. I usually stumble onto these clips by doing a search that is new content specific. So, I search “simple minds” and then I…
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Minds Music Monday – Citizen (Dance Of Youth)
The lyrics are incredible. Steeped in realism. How does a 20 year old man write with such depth? And write with more depth than the 63 year old version of the same man seems capable of? Genuinely. I mean…Jim has depth in his writing on Facebook. It still comes across there but it doesn’t seem…
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Belated Kerrsday – Goodies In The Post This Morning
These arrived from Virginia this morning. Jim smiling was just the sunshine I needed. I’ve had two hours sleep and I’m just about to fall behind with my coursework in spite of all the study I’ve been doing (oops, uni talk! That’s what the other blog is for, Prip!) – an afternoon siesta beckons. In…
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Few And Far Between For 2023
Tonight I have my first of a sparse array of gigs for 2023. This one requires a trip to the Scottish capital and a first for the venue of the Liquid Room. A venue John Grant was originally going to play at, pre-Pandemic, which then got altered to the Barras. I was ecstatic about the…