May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
These two photos were sent to me yesterday. They’re from one of the nights in early January, 1985 in which Bono joined the Minds on stage. Ooh, and I have just taken in that it just happens to be Kerrsday so there we go! Sadly the photographer is unknown and these are photos I have…
A “new” recording from Art & Talk was dropped late on Monday night. A true bootleg, recorded from within the crowd. For a bootleg, the quality is absolutely AMAZING! They open with Waterfront. Jim intros it with “this is Barrowland, this is Christmas, you’re Glasgow and this is Waterfront.” Later on in the song, Jim…
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After not a super long but very solid night’s sleep, I awoke to see…although an overcast sky, high clouds and dry conditions. It seemed promising. I looked at the forecast which seemed to say although it was dry now (around 8am), it wasn’t going to last and it would be a dodge of sunshine and…
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I wanted to share something that isn’t so obscure in the Simple Minds canon today because – one: it was pretty much the first song of theirs I fell in love with way, way back in 1984 – two: on a reflective note, as we come to the end of 2018, I still have to…
Four star review of the SM gig at Barras. This Earth That You Walk Upon was DEFINITELY a big lighlight for me. I’d give Manchester an extra star for the full five! It was sublime!
This really IS a strange review…almost like it was written BEFORE the gig…if not certainly by someone not even there on the night. And they got the date wrong! Did they go by the erroneous date on the setlist sheet? (At least I feel less sad that my own copy of the setlist has the…
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To be able to say that “I was there” is…incredible. Such an amazing night. “Bucket list” stuff ??????????????
Not that I’m counting or anything…