May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Lately the blog has been really focussed on Simple Minds and in particular the 40th Anniversary of Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, Rightly so. I do run this blog primarily as a Simple Minds (ie: Jim Kerr ogling) blog, with broader music topics – general album reviews, gigs reviews and interviews, etc. Anyone who has…
Today has been marked as Gray Day – marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Lanark by Alasdair Gray. I read Lanark for the first time last year and fell in love with it and Alasdair. Last October I went to the Oscar Marzaroli exhibition at the Street Level Photoworks on Trongate and had…
This is beautiful. And this is the view I feel that I have from my bedroom window – every day. This city has gotten under my skin from the get go. I never imagined falling in love with it quite as deeply as I have done. From my first visit in November, 2016 (a looooong…
I love how close to home some of Lanark is. Cowlairs and St Rollox are literally just up the road…
I posted this on the Simple Minds Facebook page, but thought I’d also put it here in case it is deemed too “off topic” and gets deleted. Such a weird concept this thing about tears and the way the fall from the eyes. Maybe it’s a fascination for Scottish men? Anyways, here’s what I had…
Please do not be fooled by the blurb you see attached to the video! There really isn’t too much talk about the then imminent Scottish Independence referendum. It really is all about the remarkable Alasdair Gray. A man I wish I had been aware of, learned about and began to have some kind of –…
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I have just started Lanark. Only just. I’m not the fastest reader and I started much later than I wanted to, which meant my eyelids already were starting to get heavy barely one chapter in. I managed two. Lol. And am already attributing the identity of Sludden to a certain someone. Lol. And I would be…