Minds Music Monday – Scar – Cirque Royal, Brussels – 2012
Almost 30 years after the previous Mr Sex-On-Legs footage from Brussels (taps aff tits oot beauty interview) – here he is still being SEXY AF! My still my exploding ovaries…
Tag: 1979
“RockField – The Studio On The Farm” Documentary To Air On BBC Channels!
The documentary on the famous Monmouthshire recording studio is set to air simultaneously on BBC Two Wales and BBC Four on Saturday, July 18th at 9pm BST. Below is a trailer on the documentary – with a tiny snippet of Jim discussing Simple Minds’ meeting with David Bowie and Iggy Pop while the band were…
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Minds Music Monday – The Ones I Miss
I use Spotify for the majority of my music listening. I still order and buy hard copy formats of artists! I buy vinyl, CDs, digital downloads too. I also buy merch and go to gigs. I support the artists I love! But yes, because I listen to music mostly through the night and I can’t…
I Wish Life Could Be Swedish Magazines…
The line from Iggy Pop’s Five Foot One could not be a more appropriate title because, right now, I DO wish “life could be Swedish magazines”. Well, newspapers might be more accurate. Anyway, that’s semantics. This morning on the Simple Minds Official Group (or should that now just be “Simple Minds Group”?), a Swedish fan…
Weekend WhirliGIG – BBC Radio 1 – 1979
The return of the weekend whirligig sees us revisiting SM performing a set for BBC Radio One “in concert”. Contains cracking versions of White Light/White Heat, original Kerr lyrics to Scar and a great Pleasantly Disturbed, marred only by having lines of my least favourite David Bowie song – the truly turgid Memory Of A…
40 Essential Tracks Of The (New Romantics) Scene – Changeling
I was looking through the new Classic Pop special on the New Romantics movement and wondering if Simple Minds would even get a mention anywhere. Of course they wouldn’t describe themselves as New Romantics…but they were certainly on the fringes of the scene, if not directly involved in it. And certainly their music fitted in…
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Mangled Magazine Interview With Jim
A quick interview with Jim from 1979. I feel vindicated about my thoughts on cassettes. Lol See…I don’t get the comparisons to Magazine, either. But I’d have died to have seen one of those gigs now! As for the “Secondhand Simplicity” review title? A lazy alliteration…that’s all it was. I seem to remember it was…
Why I Love…Changeling
The dancefloor. Frigging hell! Did Simple Minds know how to fill it back in the day. I guess they still do to be fair. But let us rewind back to 1979. Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside. Five young men from Glasgow are in the studio making the followup to their debut album. An album…
Lodger At 40
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Lodger album by David Bowie. A rather jumbled up travelogue of an album. The travel theme running heavily through side A of the album with: Fantastic Voyage, African Night Flight, Move On, Yassassin (Turkish for Long Live) and Red Sails. Side B’s theme alters and…
Staring At (Photos Of) The Rude Boys – New Ruts Photobook
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…
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