May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The most venomous version of King Is White I’d ever heard Jim sing…not as angry sounding in his delivery as some of the earlier versions and he drops the “take/taking no prisoners” line – which is a big shame…but in the second refrain of the chorus he adds a “hang ’em up / sling ’em…
Weekend whirligig is back after a couple of weeks off. The weekend before last was the pent up crazy excitement of all the SM news dropping, and then last weekend I was away. And so tonight (late Thursday night) I went to YouTube to start my search for an appropriately dated gig…and there it was…
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Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Newcastle City Hall gig on the New Gold Dream tour. Let’s celebrate it with 35 minutes of sheer bliss…
A visual one for this week. Their Friday night appearance on The Tube. It went out live. There’s an audience there. We can call that a gig, not merely a TV appearance. (It’s also where the pic for the “whirliGIG” artwork came from). Enjoy…
A good old Friday night “let your hair down” gig. And only the second gig of the year for SM after being in the studio recording Promised You A Miracle…which gets an airing in the set. And a stellar rendition it is too! Sound quality of the gig is good. Enjoy!
As we have all been sharing the love of the album, with it having just celebrated its 35th anniversary, I thought it apt to highlight a gig from the tour. A Sunday gig…and just a couple of days after their appearance on The Tube (where the pic of Jim for my “WhirliGIG” logo comes from)….
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Nothing rare or different this week…just this, because it’s in my head. And…I like Jim in this blue shirt. That’s it.
I am being nostalgic for things I wasn’t even around for! Lol. But…this is still one of my favouritest things, ever, because of that big, beautiful, cheesy smile. Maybe *this* was Virginia Turbett’s best work? Oh, she took some doozies of him :-))) Wonder what happened to her?
Oh, it must be a good 24 hours since my last ogle…(lol) “Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I keep looking at Jim Kerr’s nipples.” “Bless you, my child. Say 798 Hail Mary’s and tape your eyes shut. It’s the only way!” Lol I really do think the “jacket with no shirt underneath” look…