May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It seems as though things went well for the first gig in Santiago last night. Here are a few videos from YouTube that attendees recorded and uploaded. It’s good to see from the videos I saw that Kerr is at least trying to concentrate more on delivering a vocal performance rather than trying to dart…
Really sorry this is a review as a vlog post but I wanted to get my review up and posted in good time. Right now I’m just too under the weather to write out a review. My apologies. I tried to be as succinct as possible. I had set myself 45 minutes to review it…
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We’re having a bit of a train timetable crisis in Scotland at the moment with services running on sparse timetables. Around a week before this gig I looked at the train timetable to see when the last train from Waverley station back to Queen Street would be. The last service last night was at 10.15pm…
There were some fantastic positives resulting from Live Aid. Largely that, a bunch of muso’s with giant, inflated egos could actually leave their egos and performance bills at the door and do something for the greater good – en masse. (A few exceptions, granted “buy my new single, Vive Le Rock” still remains a cringeworthy…
I love this story that George Underwood tells of him and David Bowie going to see Little Richard. It’s part of Uncut magazine’s big obit to Little Richard. I had read the story some time back – but it bears repeating. If there is really such a thing as heaven and those of us deemed…
Well, at least in local Taormina and Sicilian online press there is confirmation that a touted June 24th gig in Tao is a “no go”. The gist of the translation of reports from Italian to English seems to indicate that no official word has come from SM as to the validity of this gig, or…
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‘Full concert – Rockpalast, Cologne, 1982’ by Simple MindsI wanted to choose Sons And Fascination from this gig, but it isn’t available on its own (at around the 1hr 2min mark if you want to cut straight to it)…so I thought “Bugger it! I’ll put the whole thing up.” It’s a favourite early gig. I…
Squeeeee!!!! My first ever Simple Minds gig!!! Yay!!!! #simpleminds