The Iconic Photo – Virginia Turbett Photography
All those amazing photos. Amazing. They are! Dunno who wrote this ? but I like it!
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Why I Love…Changeling
The dancefloor. Frigging hell! Did Simple Minds know how to fill it back in the day. I guess they still do to be fair. But let us rewind back to 1979. Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside. Five young men from Glasgow are in the studio making the followup to their debut album. An album…
Why I Love … Today I Died Again
It’s that … cold war Europe sensibility and style it has. Actually, it’s more post-war (The Great War), 1930’s, really. It’s Christopher Isherwood Berlin. Not flappers and sharp-suited men…later…early 1930s….now more the time of “austerity” (and how relevant does it make this song now?!), mass unemployment – post Wall Street Crash and the Hoover Dam…
Promised You A Sweat In Bullet Miracle
You know what? Well, I was worried about why I had been blocked from the Decade 77-87 Facebook page. And I was genuinely scratching my head wondering why the hell it would be that I was. Then this evening, with a new share of a Simple Minds video compilation they had put together, I realised…
Here Comes The April Fools
This was the first notification I saw this morning…and for a split second I got a heart flutter but then I took in – a) the venue (the Roadmender is in NO WAY big enough for a SM gig), and b) what I saw a few days ago when down in Bristol (ie: Derek is…
Classic Scottish Albums Podcast – New Gold Dream
BBC Radio Scotland “Classic Albums” host Davie Scott talks us through New Gold Dream, with input from Jim Kerr, Bruce Findlay, and “rent-a-gob”, Paul Morley (among others). And…there’s not even a single mention of the bath…even though Jim’s lyrics are discussed quite heavily. (Yep…the old Prip is slowly returning…ever happy to ogle) And you KNOW…
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Magazine Clippings – 1980, 1981 – Gig Reviews, Band News and Tour And New Music Info
The first snippet is dated Dec 6th, 1980. More tour dates for SM…it’s starting to wear Brian McGee out already… Next – a review of their gig at Tiffany’s on March 1st, 1981 (printed in March 14th edition of NME). Brian’s final gig with them in Glasgow. Why they get labeled as being “pretentious” with…
Gig Review – NME, October 14th, 1978 – The Future Is kerr And Burchill
Wow…Ian Cranna hit the nail on the head, or what?! Will you look at that! And, some near 40 years on…they are the mainstays. It is an amazing review, really. Very constructive. Not sycophantic. He did highlight shortcomings…but, wow! Oh, to have been there at that time. Just so absolutely fucking exciting. I wish, I…
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OMFG! FOLLIES COLOUR FOOTAGE OF FACTORY!
IMMA GONNA DIE! OH…just look at them! Look at HIM! All babyish, and off his tits and brilliant, radge and beautiful! :-))) Please excuse me for…several hours… I may be some time…
New Gold Disco Ring
OMFG! All hail to “icontethefly” for a new, cleaner upload of the Disco Ring performance of New Gold Dream. I STILL don’t know what that action he does is at 2 min 23 seconds…but I love it! Lol ENJOY PEOPLES!