May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The tour new is beginning to trickle in. Firstly, one that has been swirling about the rumour mill for the past couple of weeks now with the band headlining on Sunday 13th September for the Radio 2 in the Park weekender in Stirling. Does Radio 2 not realise how bad the weather gets in Scotland…
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It’s been a lovely first week away from not any longer stressing about uni studies and just being able to get out of bed when I want and CHILL. At this time of year I struggle to sleep well. Not because the weather is warm – fat chance in Glasgow! It’s because the days are…
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Simple Minds are performing a one-off show in the United States in November as part of the Darker Waves festival in Huntington Beach, California on 14 November 2026. There are fan pre-sale tickets available tomorrow 2 April from 10am PST, general sales commence one hour later. (That seems hardly worth the effort IMO – also,…
Today I finally completed reading Our Secrets are the Same. Still those final chapters brought forth ire and consternation within me. But I think I am finally getting better at shedding it as quickly as it comes. It does me no good to hold onto it, letting it fester and gnaw away at me. I…
So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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For shits and giggles I decided to invest a fiver to see how their “in conversation” at the British Library in London would differ from the one in Glasgow. I bought the ticket on Tuesday afternoon but didn’t get to watch it until yesterday. I have to say that compared to the one at The…
It was a busy weekend. On Saturday morning Sue arrived and during the afternoon we headed into the city to go to the Mitchell Library for an event. It was called ‘Love Letters to a Murder.’ The main aspect of it was a ‘In Conversation’ talk between the author of a fictionalised account of the…
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I am anxious, rushed, rambling, questioning – my usual scary, fucked up hot mess – but I needed to purge (and perhaps vent?) a little on the book. The first 99 pages anyway. IT’S NOT A REVIEW – it’s just my own feelings and thoughts.
I am a week ahead in my study. A trip to Newcastle is imminent, and so in the lull I am allowing myself time to at least BEGIN to read The Glesga Twins story. I’m a few chapters in – yes, some squares on my ‘Kerr’s repetitive anecdotes’ bingo card have been dabbed. Yet, somehow…
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….