May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I’m not sure I can offer up anything else about this man and his band. You’d have had to be living under a rock or you just happen to be a first-time visitor to this blog not to have noticed what an impact Hamish Hawk has had upon me over the past two years in…
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So far this year, my gig attendances have not been what I would consider a “proper” gig. Just a couple of weeks ago, it was the instore appearance at Mono/rail of Franz Ferdinand and tomorrow night is a “freebie.” I’ll be heading to Pacific Quay to the BBC Scotland studios to attend Roddy Hart’s Quay…
I miss that feeling of a bond. It is genuinely the thing that is the most heartbreaking aspect of this whole thing for me. I used to feel connected and now there is such a disconnect – which I feel stems from him, that is why I keep trying to push myself away (with very…
I have missed this stuff soooo much. Silly bint that I am to have done so. Really don’t know why I should have. Why does it matter anyway? Dunno…
I haven’t shared very much about the tour here in all honesty. Unlike with previous tours where I felt very much a part of things most of the time, with the Acoustic Tour and then – with a sticky moment in between – the Walk Between Worlds tour, I was in “the heart of the…
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I went looking through some of the local papers I have access to online and this one for Tuesday’s gig at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena inside the Nottingham Post was succinctly full of praise. The UK leg of the arena tour comes to an end tonight in Liverpool – followed then by just a single Dublin…
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I might not have felt such anguish. I wasn’t even bothered about a photo. It was never for that. Oh, but it’s lovely! Obviously I’m not…but Jim and Charlie are – and Jim’s smiling! I know that’s not exactly a rare thing…but it was feeling that way for me, personally. I’m really happy.
It all started very early. About two and a half years ago, in fact. These two gigs, Aberdeen and Glasgow, were originally scheduled to happen a few months apart. I can’t even remember the original dates now – but I think Glasgow was in April and Aberdeen was for August. Then the shit hit the…
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That’s what I’d say if I left a comment. I was crying too, but for different reasons. It’s beautiful when it’s like that. A shame it can’t always be that way… I have to say that the Q and A was odd. We’ve been asked to submit questions via email before the shows and yet…
So far…. Great and personally cringing. All that I imagined… Here are the boys. Gig is still to come. Update: It felt like Aix-les-Bains in the end. I cried at Hunter And The Hunted, and at Someone Somewhere In Summertime… and wished I was somewhere else. And wished I was happy… They were magnificent as…