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…
A watercolour painting of a blackbird in song that I had commissioned by my amazingly talented friend, Deb. Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I like to give birds alliterative names. All my own crappy creations ended up with alliterative names and so upon deciding on a name for Bryn I thought about…
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…
Well, it may sound weird still to call yourself an artist…but you can do it with affirmation and pride. A body of work that shows its worth, that you’ve received accreditation and validation for. So, it may sound odd to your “Weird Ears”…but it is wholly justified. A case in point…just how the rest of…
Seeing as I was going to be charged £3.99 for delivery of my new artist’s stylus, and yet if I spent £20 in total I’d get free delivery, I thought I might as well bung in some fangirl treasure into the basket. And YES, I bought Neon Lights…BITE ME!! Lol. I really like their version…