May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Now available to Pre-order from the Simple Minds shop. Just click the link on the attached post! Much more information on track listings to see too! It is looking COLOSSAL! Unlike the other two previous box sets, I had NO HESITATION in pre-ordering this!
Jim, Charlie AND Mick on the red carpet!
Or even considered one… An “old friend” that is. Less than two years into my fandom, I can hardly pass as an old friend! But could have been considered a new one, had I not gone into self-destruct mode and poured a whole heap of scorn on the idea. Because, at the end of it…
Playing about with a screengrab from the Glittering Prize video. Those lips though…
Released in 1982 New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) was Simple Minds 5th album in 3 years and it was a commercial and critical breakthrough they were seeking Source: reDiscover Simple Minds : New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)
KX 93.5 are being very slow with their release of the podcast of show number three of Jim’s radio show. I actually don’t get why there is such a delay. It’s a pre-record anyway. Jim recorded these shows several weeks back…so why does the podcast take so damn long to be put up on the…
I go through phases with Simple Minds. For example, if you have been following this blog for a while you’ll remember my complete change of heart about the song No Cure and how UTTERLY embedded in my head it was for WEEKS! Several songs since have done the rounds. They come and go, jostling for…
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I already have a signed copy of Lostboy! but I wanted to go for these promo copies as they usually seem quite prized. Can never have enough Lostboy! 🙂
This picture was a VERY TINY inset of a number of photos in a magazine interview with Jim from 1987. This pic is obviously from 1982 and part of the photoset for the New Gold Dream promotional stuff. He is in a slightly different pose to how he is on the Someone Somewhere In Summertime…