May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I’m still doing a little toe-dip into Bolan and T Rex at the moment. Just a couple of tracks per night. Nothing too taxing or deeply absorbing. I’m not fully immersing myself into the whole thing. Not like I have done in recent times with other musical explorations – Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Magazine –…
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Spotify played this track to me about a week ago and I had never heard it (or them) before. I really liked the sound (!) of them so went and listened to the rest of the album this song was off. I mentioned them here in one of my video posts. They sounded really good….
Where do I start? Well, I start by saying – the blog ends up being my safe place for a moan…a gripe…a whinge. Mostly because I know Jim doesn’t want to hear it. I appreciate that. Well, I kind of expressed, briefly, in the comments about the use of the phrase “longterm” – like how…
How does one define how ‘long’ the longterm is? I ponder because in Jim’s post today he talks about the “Book Of Brilliant Things” or whatever it’s going to end up being called. The fan-based SM compendium. “….we are looking to create something to which all longterm Simple Minds fans will hopefully want to contribute…
Just over 12 months from their previous appearance on The Tube, Simple Minds return. It’s not the best quality footage…but it expresses the dynamism of the band. My favourite part is when Jim’s mic is obviously starting to give him problems. Instead of stopping proceedings like a lot of other performers would, he just throws…
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Lyric of the day Song: Book Of Brilliant Things Album: Sparkle In The Rain Year of release: 1984 Written by: Simple Minds (album credits)
Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) performing Book Of Brilliant Things.