Lostboy! 2.0
And why not…
May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
And why not…
A post on SMOG from G Man about 5×5 Live and setlists and favourites and what not has me maudlin today. Forever lamenting I missed that tour. The photo he used for it – a montage of screenshots from an interview of the period looked like a piece of Kristen Whitehead’s montage work. Aye, it…
A lovely day out while the weather was good. I’ll let all the photos and bits of video do the talking…
A souvenir (the rag doll) from exploring the country today. More about that tomorrow…
Want something SPOOKY to get your teeth into for Halloween? Then may I suggest the Battersea Poltergeist? I have spent the past week freaking myself out listening to this podcast at night…in bed…in the dark. Literally shitting myself! Lol. It is really creepy – well I found it creepy. The story centres around a house…
Read full post “The Battersea Poltergeist – And Other Podcasts” »
The “art” very much comes and goes in waves these days. I must be needing some visual therapy as I have found myself working on the visual side of things again these past few days. I don’t feel anywhere near as depressed and “affected” as I did this time last year leading up to my…
Read full post “The Quiet Side Of Midnight – Priptona Art” »
Ghost Dancer (aka Stuart Greaves) has shared another gem of a bootleg, this time of SM some seven months into the New Gold Dream tour of ‘82/‘83 – midway through the North American leg of the tour in April/May of 1983. Playing the Ritchie’s Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recorded by a member of the…
Read full post “Minds Music Monday – Ritchie’s Club – New Orleans – 27/04/1983” »
Been whiling away my Sunday being arty farty… 3 x nine of beauty. I love you, Mr Kerr.
There’s a break for me now in the gigs I have coming up. I’ll be in Edinburgh at the end of the month for my birthday treat of seeing a touring production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast – making it my sixth time seeing the show and the first time seeing it since the…
After the post about Virginia’s photos of the day Simple Minds signed to Virgin Records in March, 1981…today THESE babies arrived! Obviously my favourites are going to be the ones of Jim. In one he is poised to sign (or has just signed) the contract. He has those pursed lips there – the excited sign…