Sometimes All I Want Is A Good Memory…
Listening to Bjork’s Hyper-Ballad while choosing this. Connection? No idea. But there is a beautiful melancholy to Hyper-Ballad that has me putting it on repeat.
Shifting Sands And Things To Come
As you might have been able to tell from a few of the new Christmas themed banners that have appeared on the blog, I am trying to give it a bit of a spruce and a rejig. It’s going to be the slow end of the year. Jim’s gone quiet now. There’s been time for…
Spotify Wrapped 2022 – No Real Surprise…
Apart from one addition in Ms Sarah Brown showing as a solo artist! All the usual suspect otherwise, with possibly even more Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music than the previous couple of years. But the Minds and Bowie will ALWAYS be top! Forever. New songs making an appearance for SM. I think this may be…
Happy St Andrew’s Day 2022
Priptona Art images celebrating St Andrew’s Day viewable in the post. Click to see…
Minds Music Monday – Vocal Intonations Exemplified
I think I’ve come to understand one of the main reasons why I love Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call so much. Firstly, musically, it just progresses so beautifully. There is that undercurrent connective theme of travel, linked by the musical stamps of Derek Forbes’s fabulous bass lines, Mick MacNeil’s synth riffs and melodies and those…
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Happy Birthday Charlie B!
He’s 63 today. Hope you’re having a stellar day today, Mr Bubble and that The Emperor is buying you lunch. Release the mothballs, Kerr! Lol
The Long Review – Sarah Brown Sings Mahalia Jackson Live – Ronnie Scott’s, London – 21/11/2022
Monday started REAL early. My Easyjet flight to Luton was departing at 9.50am and they were recommending arrival to the airport two hours before departure time. I set my alarm for 4.50am so I could get the 6.45am train to Queen Street. I was awake at 3.30am! Not only that, I had (excuse the graphic…
Five Years And A Day Apart – Anniversaries Are Like Buses
Today the official David Bowie social media said that the Jean Genie is 50 years old today. And tomorrow, the band who named themselves after a line from the song “He’s so simple-minded he can’t drive his module” (aka Simple Minds) will be 45 years old! Happy Anniversary to two of the best things in…
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London Was…
More to come. For now… this!
Chilean Mixed Bag – Simple Minds – Santiago – 19 September 1995
A new Art & Talk special. Yes, it has taken me a few days to get to it but I did finally listen to it last night. And what a wonderful mixed bag it is. I had prepared myself for Jim’s ‘lazy crooning’ stuff that he did in the mid nineties – a style of…
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