May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
A reminder that tomorrow, 27 October, is the release date for New Gold Dream: Live at Paisley Abbey. It’s been almost 12 months since the band secreted themselves away into Paisley’s stunning abbey. The premise? To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of seminal album New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) with a unique one-off live…
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You know how lately I have talked about being a part from things, rather than feeling a part of things when relating to the Simple Minds fandom? Well, today is an absolute case in point. Fans waxing lyrical about LITCOL as Jim posts about the 35th Anniversary of its release. It’s not an album I…
It seems a bit surplus to need of highlighting this, as the tickets for it have already gone – FLOWN OUT ON THE WINDOW in mere hours (perhaps only minutes? Bloody quick sticks anyway!) – but I will talk of it anyway. On release day, Catherine will conduct a Q&A for Rough Trade, hosted by…
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This morning I was taking photos of Sultan as she was sitting by the little light box thing which has “pure dead braw” on it. ASAP jumped up on the table a minute or two later and sat beside Sultan. I kept snapping away. Then Sultan yawned and as the camera snapped I thought “Oh…
The follow up to 2017’s Wireless World sees the Newcastle duo expand on the lyrics and guest vocalists and they take the funk up a notch too! A fantastic trip into the topical point of how not every idea we have is the right idea and should be executed blindingly. Following is my track-by-track thoughts…
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I really am not the biggest fan of the live album. Never have been and probably even more so now I actually go to many gigs during the year. Get it wrong and it’s completely devoid of atmosphere and can just sound appalling and probably doesn’t “sell” what is otherwise a truly stellar live act….
Short but sweet!
Last night I was in Oxford seeing Kelly Jones on the final night of his “Don’t Let The Devil Take Another Day” solo tour of the UK. I will review the gig in a dedicated post shortly. But while I was at the gig last night, news of this broke out within the fandom… Now…
This week in SNSS Sir talks cinema and “sphericals” Cherisse in Lisbon Sarah on her Mahalia Jackson project The Anchoress finalising artwork on album two A couple of posts from Mr Kerr this week on going to the cinema and catching up on musical delights (or possibly lack thereof). He spoke of seeing the film…
Someone: It’s quite manic the way it starts then sounds traditional rock. Almost pub rock. Post punk. But “poppy”. I love that little “doo wop” bit too. The magic of a song that sounds catchy and upbeat, but if you take note of the lyrics…there’s a slightly different story going on. But we’re looking for…