May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Just a quick reminder that the yellow and black spatter coloured 12″ vinyl release of the Solstice Kiss single is officially out in the record shops tomorrow. I pre-ordered mine some time back so will most likely not see it until Monday (as I won’t be here for its delivery if it arrives either tomorrow…
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Perhaps….subconsciously I could feel it too? In light of what I was saying in my vlog post today? Go out with a bang? Leave them wanting more? Never talk about that bloody “R” word…. But, there we are! Without him actually saying it, Jim just said it on the Billy Sloan show. I guess it…
Released today is this tome by Billy Sloan (ah, poetry! I’m dreading studying that and having to write some this academic year!) titled One Love, One Life. It retails for £20.00 and is available in all good book sellers. Jim has written a foreword for the book. (Maybe in time…) Billy is also doing some…
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Today is the anniversary of my first ever visit to Glasgow – six years ago. I had come up to take part in 15 to 1. A bucket list tick for something I had long wished to do – to be a contestant on a television quiz show. There was somebody who was HUGELY responsible…
Today, much like every other day, I should be studying. But today I feel a particular sense of melancholy and foreboding. I *should* feel on a high, because last night Simple Minds actually, FINALLY, debuted on ‘Later…with Jools Holland.’ They were incredible. Vision Thing sounded AMAZING. I actually shouted out when they finished “THAT’S THE…
The promotional hob-nobbing that Jim and Charlie (and at times the rest of the band too) have done over the past couple of weeks to plug Direction Of The Heart has been pretty unreal. I don’t recall such a swell of promotional schmoozing like this for Walk Between Worlds. There are firsts on the cards…
But of course I need to be in a room with him for at least half an hour for that to happen…or challenge him to an online game. Pffft! Like that’ll happen! I’d whip his ass anyways! (Scrabble talk at the end, in case you’re wondering what I’m on about.)
Mornings between 7.30 (roughly the time I get out of bed most mornings. Sometimes earlier, sometimes later…like this morning) and about 9.45 are mine. In terms of setting myself up for a study day … well … any day, really. I’ll take a glance around social media, see what’s what. Check out if Jim has…
Two interviews took place almost simultaneously yesterday. One pre-recorded, the other live. The live chat happened on BBC Radio Scotland. Grant Stott was hosting The Afternoon show and during the middle of the program, he spoke to Bruce Findlay, Billy Sloan and Graeme Thomson about the book and Simple Minds. You can listen to that…
Well, well, well…look what we have here! This week on Billy Sloan’s Show on BBC Radio Scotland, SOMEONE is going to be Billy’s guest. A day after I conduct my interview for this wee blog. (No! I’m not interviewing Jim! In my goddamn dreams. But the person I AM interviewing is relevant to the content…