Give The Blog A Boost… But How?
Discussing the blog, what to do with and also the desire to revise the “Why I Love…” Simple Minds Top 50 songs.
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Beating My Head Against The Wall
Because…I don’t know what else to do with myself. I saw this sketch on Instagram of Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill and I thought it looked really lovely. I love that the artist got Mr Kerr in the, what I like to call, the “hairdresser’s bib” – this odd black scarf/kerchief thing he wore in…
Recent Radio Offerings – New Gold Dream Album Club and Ged On Radio Scotland Arts Show
Firstly, Steve Lamacq played the entire New Gold Dream album as part of Radio 6 Music’s album club. It also includes an interview with Jim and Charlie recorded and aired in July, 2016, as part of the box set release of NGD at the time. On Wednesday (Sept. 30th), Ged was on BBC Radio Scotland’s…
Added Extras
Michelle took these ones of me with “The Boys/Mr Beautiful Sir KerrLaird Dash Fandango aka Jim” ??? The first one in B&W makes me look like I’m just…standing at the shrine. Lol
Embracing The “Minds Music Monday” Suck
As I have said in the past, there are few Simple Minds songs that I can’t really warm to. When I tried to put it in mathematical terms from the number of songs I overtly avoid and skip and just can’t listen to as opposed to the rest of the SM catalogue, it was about…
Seeing Through The Eyes Of Love
A fun afternoon in sunny Glesga.
Heart Of The Crowd – Limited Edition Boxed Presentation
So initially I held off getting the Heart Of The Crowd book on pre-order. I just wasn’t sure I wanted to expose myself to all those stories. I was slowly coming round to it and was starting to think that maybe it would be good. And the £45 didn’t seem too bad. A little more…
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Old Gold Dream?
I felt rather disheartened by yesterday’s 6 Music “Album Club”. The remit for BBC Radio 6 Music when it started was to be “indie” and “alternative”. It seems to have edged away from that over the years. I mean…it was fabulous that they gave exposure to Walk Between Worlds in 2018. No one was more…