May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
And, boy, what a treat these are! Look at these! I found myself looking through a folder of photos linked to the Simple Minds Facebook page a few days ago and these gems showed up! Jim looks absolutely MAGNIFICENT in these. What a babe! I wanted to share these ssoooo much but decided that the…
THIS HAPPENED! I tuned into Ronnie McGhie’s radio show on Pulse 98.4 (Barrhead) and …. I needed something else to do, so…lo and behold. I opened up my art apps, chose a screenshot of Jim I had taken from the Rockpalast Cologne gig and… voila! The words? Well, he sung the song title as he…
Today Billy Sloan on his show page for BBC Radio Scotland was asking which gig that you’ve been to in the past would you want to go back and experience again. Not sure I would want to go to any specific ones, really. Probably just any Simple Minds one. But…oh, the chance to see them…
I must lose my sense of smell being round him or something. I’ve had the man have his arm around me, TWICE…one of those times I had my head rested on his chest! AND I DID NOT SMELL HIM! Paris is the only time I ever thought I got a whiff. And…heady it was too….
The Jimbo Crimbo celebrations continue at Casa Read with…ESSENTIAL viewing 😉
For me…possibly the SEXIEST Simple Minds song is Celebrate…that low, reverbing bass…high synths and Charlie’s little solo riff…plus some of the sexiest words Jim has ever written (seriously…the way he delivers that opening “Act of love”….just makes me melt…let alone the “she rag doll / keeps him warm” lines (which have now been surrendered to…
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Possibly my most favourite moment of the whole Simple Minds Rockpalast 1982 gig. Jim is just soaking in the moment. I hope he was thinking “this was a good one!” – because it was. The comments show on clips from this gig that it has its detractors, but I think it’s one of their best. It…
“There’s a hole in my head / where the creature has crawled” Gif sequence of Simple Minds performing Premonition at Rockpalast, Cologne, 1982.