May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Simple Minds were a fantastic live band from the get-go, yet despite that, it took them almost a decade before they released their first official live album. The hunger was there from the fanbase as many bootlegs exchanged hands from the earliest days. Now, barely a year goes by without the band milking yet another…
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Good news from His Nibs today in his latest post. A number of good news pieces, for him – Villa Angela has once again opened its doors (just in case that whole “being the frontman for the best live band in the world” suddenly starts to go all pear-shaped after 40+ years, like). Whilst it…
Art & Talk has been busy leading up to Easter and gave us TWO gigs from the Floating World Tour of 2002 to enjoy over the weekend period. One is a 10 track FM Broadcast from Amsterdam. The other, from 10 days later, is a full setlist gig at a winery in California. I haven’t…
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Gang Of Four, YouTube Minds and the salty sea Ayr….
A few more recent acquisitions…. The Mecano one is already up on display. Oh, I do like to live vicariously!
Back to Amsterdam, for the first night of the two weekend gigs they did on March 22/23, 1980. The second gig was recorded for Dutch radio, this first one is a bootleg…but considering the passage of time and recording techniques for “home jobs” back then (plus endless shares, and shares, retaping, copies of copies), it…
Read full post “Weekend WhirliGIG Wish – Back To Amsterdam, 1980” »
This may not happen EVERY weekend, but it will ON a weekend. The concept? Find a weekend gig that happened sometime in the past…find a good or at least “atmospheric” recording of it, and share it…as the experience of that gig plays out in your mind’s eye. So, I present to you, for this weekend…a…
Read full post “Weekend WhirliGIG Wish (Inuagural) – Melkveg, Amsterdam – March 23rd, 1980” »
I am just so in love with Jim(!) as a performer during this period. There are no visuals to this, of course (well, not live visuals from the gig), but in my mind’s eye (Minds eye!) I can see him in all his gloriously stilted yet nonchalant beauty. Man…I WANT A TARDIS!! :-((