May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Just want it over with now. I try and cover it up most days. Some days I do the funny ones instead. They give me cheer but…not today. Today I felt like not covering it up anymore. I hate being negative but some days are just bad and it’s unavoidable. I hope tomorrow will be…
I first learned about these guys from listening to BBC Radio 6 Music. More specifically a guest DJ slot one day back in….2016, I think it might have been…? Or maybe 2017? Trying to do some research for this – it could have been as far back as 2015! Anyway, it was being hosted by…
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I went out for a Christmas meal last night with Birdy and Michelle. Yes, a slightly personal post BUT… Michelle gave me this (pic below) as my Christmas present and I am just bowled over. It’s just gorgeous! I love it! The business card is the restaurant we ate at. In all honesty, Glasgow is…
And, boy, what a treat these are! Look at these! I found myself looking through a folder of photos linked to the Simple Minds Facebook page a few days ago and these gems showed up! Jim looks absolutely MAGNIFICENT in these. What a babe! I wanted to share these ssoooo much but decided that the…
The Neapolis talk. I’m glad he pulled himself up there because it is NOT true that it’s just himself and Charlie that like it. Bloody hell! One of those nostalgic things in which I can share an “exchange” – he pulled me up for not mentioning Song For The Tribes – which he mentioned to…
This year feels like it has been a long one. I started university back in January and I am now working through the second module of my DipHE English. There was excitement at the start of the year with some Simple Minds related releases happening. The first being from the band themselves with the release…
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In the final MMM before Christmas I didn’t really know what song I was going to choose. So much so that I started to look through the list of commercially released songs on Dream Giver Redux for some inspiration, and what I thought about doing initially was finding a song from more recent years to…
It was a very frosty evening on Wednesday night. The UK has been suffering from an Arctic freeze blast for the past several days with most places experiencing snow. Glasgow is one of the few places to lay low enough in the Clyde valley to miss the snow, but the temperatures have been incredibly cold…
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The latest Guitarist magazine has an interview with Charlie inside it. Also, for a pro guitar magazine you’d think they’d be able to tell the difference between Charlie and Johnny Marr and yet….a photo of Marr with Jim at the Mandela concert is labelled as Jim with Charlie. Oops! I haven’t read the article yet,…
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As alluded to on Friday, I wanted to discuss the curious case of ‘Traffic’ for Minds Music Monday. I’m perplexed. For a band that prided itself in not pandering to the whims and wishes of others, it seems a complete exercise in pandering to “radio play” to change the title of the track to the…
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