May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It’s the one a lot of fans have been waiting for and well…it’s fairly disappointing, insomuch as there’s nothing to surprise. No previously unreleased material. Well the Verona audio is deemed “previously unissued” – whatever the fuck THAT’S meant to mean. Not previously in audio only format, I’m assuming? This new push for “edits” continues…
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What to do about this blog? Haven’t had much to say here this past month. It was all about the time in Oz with the family and friends. Now I am back home though, I am starting to think about what I can do with this blog. I guess soon enough it’ll be busy again,…
Currently at Sydney Airport. Shortly about to board a United Airlines flight to San Francisco. About 30 plus hours of travel ahead with connections included. See you on the other side. Time for hame…
It’s now 4 years since this happened and I know Jim will be utterly bloody bored with it, so I’ll just keep the memory here on the blog. This anniversary I find myself back in Oz, so this year feels just a little more special, yet painfully sad. Kyoto might well still be in snow,…
With now just one week left to go here in Australia, time and the opportunities of spending time with them – friends (as well as the money required for destinations to travel to/back from) – are precious. I was really hoping I could get to visit friends in Melbourne and Adelaide whilst here. Sadly I…
I was in the city today and purely by chance walked by the venue that Simple Minds will play at in Sydney next year… the First State Super Theatre. There was advertising for the gig outside…
Well, we might as well have nice round figures, eh? But THIS IS IT! Ten is enough! Done!
“Dan Yer Man” will be taking part in a Q and A as well as performing with his band The Dark for White Hot Day on March 21st 2020. Tickets are available through Tickets Scotland. See you guys there!
Talking about political activism in the 1980s and the Minds part in it. This…washing away of its relevance now. “It’s all been said.” That may be so, Jim. But…no one’s learning! So we need to keep fighting the good fight! Please! Don’t just wash it away with “it’s all been said”. Well…don’t bloody bother writing…
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Well…it started with Sophia Deboick in the New European magazine in April, 2018 greasing the wheels of me FINALLY taking a dive into Roxy Music and then my little talk with Jim about starting to get into them and him just reiterating the importance of Roxy and Bryan Ferry on Simple Minds and him (“No…
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