May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Tonight Jim and Charlie join Tim Burgess on Absolute Radio to play the original 1982 studio album version of New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) as part of Tim’s Listening Party. You can catch it at 10pm GMT (Sunday 5 November 2023). Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel being the most apt song one can listen to on…
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All good things must come to an end, as they say. Oh, but sometimes, don’t you just WISH they wouldn’t? Jim’s fourth and final (for now, perhaps?) show for Absolute Radio aired on what is Sunday morning for us here Down Under. He threw me a slight curveball by playing Van Morrison’s Gloria as his…
Well, before this week’s show even started, I was theorising what he’d open it with. I thought, “Bowie week one, Velvet Underground week two. This week it HAS to be Roxy?” Lo and behold! But I was having Internet trouble right up til the final minutes before the show started, so couldn’t put my prediction…
It was a lovely mix this week (week one was great too, and it’s only now do I realise I should have done a review of it. I’ll do one later today, perhaps). There was a bit of everything. Sheer get-up-out-of-your-chair-and-have-a-big-old-dance with Nutbush City Limits. A 1990s protest and celebration of mediocrity and modernity from…
Mentioned initially a couple of weeks back on the official Simple Minds Facebook page, Jim will be hosting four radio shows for the Absolute Radio network, starting next Saturday, February 13th, at 10pm GMT. I, for one, can’t wait. Jim exudes a real passion and enthusiasm for the line of work he found himself…
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Interview with Jim on Absolute Radio, Sunday, December 6th, 2015. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Alive and Kicking: The Simple Minds Story. Pete Mitchell from Absolute Radio talks to Jim Kerr about the history of his band, Simple Minds. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)