May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This guy I find hilarious…if purely by accident on his part. But I adore him too – for his involvement in the Simple Minds story. It really was a stroke of genius to hire him to produce Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. I mean, John Leckie had been great…and Real To Real Cacophony and Empires…
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Not just me then? Still, it was 36 years ago. It seems a very highly personal thing he shared for the time…well, at ANY time.
FINALLY got an A3 scanner so now I could share the article in all its glory! I hope I scanned it in an optimal reading condition. Please let me know otherwise.
Just over 12 months from their previous appearance on The Tube, Simple Minds return. It’s not the best quality footage…but it expresses the dynamism of the band. My favourite part is when Jim’s mic is obviously starting to give him problems. Instead of stopping proceedings like a lot of other performers would, he just throws…
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It snowed ALL morning along the East Midlands and into East Anglia today (Dec 10th). Luton copped several inches of snow, as did Bedford, the location of this year’s final and quite unexpected gig. That of Alexis Taylor and Green Gartside. The weather did its best to deter us going…but no…my partner had waited over…
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After this BBC Radio 3 broadcast of the Florian Hecker work we’re going to on Saturday, the next gig will be this amazing lady at Kings Place on December 17th. It is going to be wonderful and I’ll be taking a copy of this with me to be signed by Catherine. Thank you, lovely, lovely…
This will probably be as about as Christmassy as I’ll get. I had to use this pic somehow! It appeals to the fetish…he’s playing with his left ear. God…I really DO love embarrassing myself! Lol. Oh, well. As they say in the song Happy Talk, “You’ve got to have a dream. If you you don’t…
A gig review of the boys performing at the Marquee in London on December 18th, 1980. I’m not really sure this guy gets them. Or maybe he thinks the AUDIENCE doesn’t get them? From his description of the crowd, perhaps they don’t? OK, the guys sounded kind of dark then…but they are GLORIOUS! This guy…
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Missed sharing this one the other day. Will post the full article later today or tomorrow.