Charlie Burchill – Interview – Acoustic Magazine, November, 2016
One last interview to share from the recent selection of goodies I unearthed.
One last interview to share from the recent selection of goodies I unearthed.
I didn’t even realise Simple Minds ended,up featuring in it. I assumed their presence in the “History of Rock” realm would be given to New Gold Dream, so when I looked at the 1982 edition of the magazine and saw hardly ANY talk of NGD, I just assumed SM were overlooked entirely. To my surprise…
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The story about the kabuki screen is hilarious! And what he says about Jim is lovely :-))
As Sir gently weeps for the (surmised) demise of the electric guitar…this piece of work of Charlie’s is what makes me weep for its sheer soaring majesty and beauty. By far and away my favourite guitar solo of Mr Burchill’s.
A slection of pics I took of the gig itself (gig one of the two)… Just a few shots of him… And just to break things up a bit…him with KT Charlie? Where did you spring from? Lol. (Jim still kinda ends up in the pic anyways) Mr Gordy Goudie, esq.
It’s that little riff at the beginning. So basic, but so right for the song. And that little jangly keyboard. Jim writes “traditional” verse and chorus lyrics. I find the lyrics intriguing. And there is some…sexual ambiguity going on within “but I’ve got something on my mind / I want you here, I want you…
I went to bed after midnight on, what was then, Tuesday morning and needed to be up again some FOUR HOURS later to pack and get myself ready for a 6.50am flight out. I was out the door by 5.10am. Got the airport 10 mins later…had to wait another 10 mins for a shuttle bus…
Now…where do I start with this one? Getting there? Delays getting into Hull. Points signal failures in Hull meant trains arriving were backing up. It took a good extra hour before I arrived in Brid. I checked into the place I was staying at. I was meant to have a single room, but was given…
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He’ll KILL ME for the post title! Lol Caption: Jim says “Where’s ma hair gahn?” Charlie says “Aye, Jim. It’s flown away up there!”
One last mention of it. Little did I know when I invested in two copies there was a chance of being a lucky “one in ten” of getting a signed copy of the book. Did I perhaps make my chance one in five, having bought two copies? (I used to be fairly good at maths…it’s…
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