There’s a new Hanging Around book release featuring the photography of Virginia Turbett. The book in question features photos of The Ruts (aka Ruts DC – as they are known these days).
The book called “South Of Babylon: The Ruts 1978-1979” is available to pre-order through the Hanging Around Books site and is released on May 27th. Click here to order your copy.
Really looking forward to this one.
Certain research has had me looking at very early SM stuff over the weekend and so let’s share a rare baby – I think this is about the best quality version on YT.
Wow…Ian Cranna hit the nail on the head, or what?! Will you look at that! And, some near 40 years on…they are the mainstays. It is an amazing review, really. Very constructive. Not sycophantic. He did highlight shortcomings…but, wow!
Oh, to have been there at that time. Just so absolutely fucking exciting. I wish, I wish, I wish! But…I wasn’t even 8 years old (not for another two weeks after the review was published), and living on the other side of the world. You can’t turn back time. But I can love them in the here and now. And I do!
Still doesn’t stop me wishing for a TARDIS ride, or 17…
A fab article inside this month’s Electronic Sound magazine marking the 40th anniversary release of the 7th album by the “Godfathers of Electro-pop”.
Firstly…Jim’s post late last night/early this morning re: the first Simple Minds gig on this day in 1978. I posted on the SMO FB visitor wall saying about making a “pilgrimage” there…to stand on the “hallowed turf”.
I looked up Satellite City to see the main site was once Green’s Playhouse and then later the Apollo. Upstairs was another venue, originally called Clouds, it was renamed Satellite City.
When I looked on Google Maps for the location earlier…I didn’t zoom out on the image…only just this evening did I do that to see…I had already viewed the “hallowed ground” with my own eyes back in November 2016! And in a further twist of irony, look what stands there now!
This was a picture I took of it back in 2016. LITTLE DID I KNOW the history of it then.
It kind of blew me away knowing I had been standing outside it some 14 months previous without even knowing the significance. All I thought at the time when I saw it was, “Oh, this is neat…an Aussie pub in Glasgow. Bloody Aussies! They’re everywhere these days! Lol”
MIND OFFICIALLY BLOWN!
Ooh…one that made it on the album! And a personal fave…in my Top 50 – Murder Story
This one at least made it to demo – Act Of Love (of course, it later becomes a line used in Celebrate “Act of love is a luxury” and Glittering Prize “called an act of love / can you never stop”)
