May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I just wanted to make you guys aware that I am selling off some of my Simple Minds collection on eBay. I’m only posting to UK sellers I’m afraid. There is just too much hassle with posting things overseas. I’ll link to each item. You can see the listings below: Graffiti Soul original 2009 release…
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Welcome to what will be known as “1981-Day Monday.” A theme that may run all summer long. We’ll see where it goes after that. The premise? Well, it’ll be for me to write about an album from 1981 that I have either never listened to at all, or have not heard for a very long…
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I have vinyl listening sessions when the mood takes me. I usually listen to two or three albums in a session. For yesterday’s session I had the firm idea of listening to Hamish Hawk’s Heavy Elevator and from there I was going to see where the mood took me. Most likely a David Bowie album…
In the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine, they have gone over the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. There is now a new, revised list from the magazine. The first list was published in 2003. In 2012, they revised this list. We’ve now had this second revision. I went through the whole list, praying…
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Well, seeing as most days there is not much to report, I have decided to coin the SM “Slow News Sunday Summary”. A look at what morsels have been reported via SMO or other related avenues during the past seven days. Cherisse on tour with Kelly Jones in June/July Sir’s been to Sicily Sarah’s Saturday…
Great to see this in the latest edition of Long Live Vinyl magazine. The hallowed Empires And Dance where it should be…part of a list of the best and most influential post-punk albums to listen to.
Look where WALK BETWEEN WORLDS is!!! THREE BABY! Two more places to go!
When at home, back in the UK, perhaps once a fortnight or there abouts I’d have a “vinyl day”. It would mostly comprise of my newly acquired Simple Minds vinyl, but not exclusively. I am missing those days. There’s a ritual, almost, to playing vinyl. Switching your tech on. Checking it is all in good…
#SimpleMinds #vinyl hoard from yesterday’s eBay auction collection. 12" singles, albums and a couple of 10" singles too 🙂