May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Here is a selection of the things that were on the Oz TV SM DVD that arrived the other day. I put them up on YouTube to save space on my blog. Here goes… And the interview from yesterday – minus the bit of Prince Charles I snuck into it yesterday.
Full details at Argos on Twitter. Closing time for entries is 17:00, Friday, November 29th. (I might be a little bit pre-occupied right at that point in time!) Good luck! Argos are giving away tickets to see Simple Minds in London next April! Simply recreate @Argos_Online's Christmas advert, featuring 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', however…
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This is something I would have loved to have shared on SMO, due to its relevance….but I can’t now. Maybe someone else will on my behalf? It would make a cool poster on a wall. (Originally seen and shared via David Bowie Downunder on Facebook)
I’m putting these two snippets together, as they are both to do with Real To Real Cacophony. One advert from a copy of the NME dated Feb 9th, 1980, with two glowing reviews from David McCullough and Ian Cranna (spelled incorrectly in the ad) – as well as a dedicated (and horribly scathing!) review from…
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More of my Belgian clippings shared. An advert for tomorrow’s Minds gig as well as a letter from a reader on their discovery of Roxy Music…running strange parallels with my own recent Roxy epiphany. I do love the cartoon type artwork of the early Roxy band dynamic. Google Translate didn’t do the best work translating…
Waaaay! Got to see not one but TWO buses in Bristol with the Spotify advert on. Here’s a bit of Facebook LIVE footage of the second…(couldn’t get the camera going fast enough) Also a photo of it too 🙂 Aaaaaand! Look what’s at Weston station!
Wow! This is just ssooo awesome! I don’t usually go gaga over advertising…but…just, the way I got into discovering them fully…it was all down to Spotify. And them using one of Virginia’s photos…it’s all just so…WOW! They are all over the country! People have been sharing pics from Bournemouth, Edinburgh, London and Leeds. I hope…
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Advert from the Record Mirror, May 19, 1979, for Life In A Day by Simple Minds. “Take a look at your watch”.
Advert in the NME in April 1991 for Real Life album.
Considering Woolworths (in the UK at least) are no more…you might as well go to Mars for a copy now! Lol.