May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Billy chats to Jim and Charlie about next year’s Global World Tour and the making of New Gold Dream: Live at Paisley Abbey, among other things in what was an hour long middle section in Billy’s show that aired on Saturday, 30 September 2023. I have taken out the music so it’s just straight chat….
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Now available to pre-order, a re-issue of Simple Minds’ BBC ‘In Concert’ acoustic gig at the Hackney Empire in November, 2016. Click for more info…
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…
Simple Minds play live at the Verona Arena performing two songs. Click the post for more…
It’s a wee short and sweet one, but wonderful as ever. Ego check for Mr Kerr, please?! Lol. Honestly! Bloody hell. Click the post to view video…
It’s a good chunk of an interview and Jim and Charlie were on great form. I particularly loved Jim’s tale of the time Charlie cut open his pinky finger in 1981, just prior to them touring Australia for the first time. Just the kind of story I was hoping for from Jim at the Paris…
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Check ’em out! Geez-o. Pair of neds. (To quote Frank Gallagher when I had a play about with him once. He shared a photo of himself posed with Jim and Charlie a few years back. I asked him who he was posing with in said photo – obviously knowing who they were. Frank’s response? “Couple…
I have been concentrating on getting my blog tidied up and streamlined. Yesterday the very hefty outlay for the blog was paid. It was also more expensive than I had anticipated so it really brought me down. As I said in a recent post, I am trying to migrate my site to somewhere else but…
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Oh, such great timing. Literally on the eve of me having to fork out another £250+ in making sure this blog keeps on running….erm, thanks guys! Lol I went and looked at the info for the Hydro in the hope that I would at least be able to see a floor plan of it and…
The completist in me had me do it. And, well, I love the photo on the cover. I was also secretly hoping there’d be a quote of my review in the opening pages. Alas, no such luck. Still on the Hachette website though, so it’s not all bad.