May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This week it’s a rather tenuous Fanatical Friday. Magazine have been one of my more recent discoveries, and as a consequence of being a Simple Minds fan and through Jim extolling the virtues of the band during my years of SM fandom. The first thing I noticed was this little visual nod that Jim gave…
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It seems as if more often than no that the 17th January (in my experience) here in Glesga seems to be a lovely sunny day. Always cold, mind! But invariably sunny. What it was like in 1978, I cannot tell you. No doubt equally as cold as it is today. A newly formed band of…
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A feature on Magazine in Mojo magazine….mmmmmm! It’s a great article. I have to admit that the timing of the band kind of imploding…of McGeoch joining The Banshees and Howard getting ready to quit the band in 1981 in retrospect looks INCREDIBLY fortuitous for Simple Minds joining Virgin…esp. in light of what Simon Draper says…
To make up for the Brian’s non-involvement in the Themes For Great Cities book, here is three parts of an interview for the RMN podcast. Enjoy!
Two interviews took place almost simultaneously yesterday. One pre-recorded, the other live. The live chat happened on BBC Radio Scotland. Grant Stott was hosting The Afternoon show and during the middle of the program, he spoke to Bruce Findlay, Billy Sloan and Graeme Thomson about the book and Simple Minds. You can listen to that…
After a long, dry spell… (the last new release from Simple Minds being the release of For One Night Only for the 40: The Best Of Simple Minds 1979-2019 release towards the end of 2019) THERE IS NEWS! A new release from Simple Minds in celebration of the band’s debut gig at Glasgow’s Satellite City…
“This is a fast story”, author Graeme Thomson says at the beginning of the book and keeps reminding us a few more times further in. It’s a story of the formative years of two pals from Toryglen, their school chum down the road, the keyboard player from the Chinese restaurant and the bass player that…
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Listen to Jonathan Richman.
I had this arrive in the post this morning. It’s a piece of sobering beauty of the city’s recent past. Virginia’s association with Glasgow goes far beyond her work of capturing Simple Minds in the early 80s. Her brother was a social worker in the city and so she would visit often. And her work…
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I love listening to Abusers/early SM stuff. I still wish I’d been around then. I guess I always will.