May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
People be jumping the gun re: Life In A Day 40th anniversary. Lots of celebrating today…but there is an official Zoom press release from the time on the Dream Giver Redux site showing the release date to be April 13th…so I will be holding my horses until then. BUT…in preparation for it, you can read…
Jim chats with Trevor Horn about Belfast Child, Street Fighting Years, and the recent collaboration between Simple Minds (including Mick MacNeil) and Horn on his “Reimagines The Eighties” album.
So, I am listening into the Billy Sloan Show earlier (still listening now as I type this out) and he read out some listener comments about the best gig, album and single of 2018. After he read some words about Simple Minds, he went onto say “they are bringing out a new album and will…
Well, he has to have a suitable name if he’s turning to rap. How about Prip W? Lol. Pripton returns as a rapper?! Lol. Punk will eat itself 😉 What am I on about? Well, news is Phunk Investigation (Planet Phunk + other associates) have a new album of remixes coming out in February next…
A new release from Bryan Ferry at the end of November…inspired by his soundtrack work for the Netflix series Berlin Babylon. It sounds like it could be a goodun. I wonder if next year’s world tour will be airing this kind of vibe too? Would really love to hear how Sea Breezes sounds. Only about…
I’ve not bought the album yet and had my first listen to it proper on Spotify last night. This won’t be a strict review, just a general mulling over of my first impressions. I was already familiar with three tracks, the title track, He’s Got His Mother’s Hips and Is He Strange. At last week’s…
Really fab interview with Jon Hopkins in this month’s Electronic Sound magazine. Will definitely take a listen to the album tonight.
Every day on Facebook for the past four days, I have been doing this “share a cover of an album that made an impact on you, that you still play today, even if only now and then”. Well, today’s one I felt I wanted to share beyond FB. Part of the idea of it is…
Got a Scottish band to see!
Where to begin? Magic – still believe it to be aptly named and a fabulous starter to the album. Just shining, catchy, poppy optimism in four and half minutes. Summer – that bass hook? Love it! We heard it WEEKS ago on a snippet clip of the reveal of the album’s release date. I mean…all…
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