May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
An interesting set of venues with dates for the end of June and early July 2025. Had I still been living in Luton the Bedford venue would have felt literally just around the corner from me! The nearest they’d have ever played to my (as of back then) “home” town. As it is, from the…
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A lovely 30 minute chunk of Simple Minds recorded in Dublin in March, 2012. Really nicely done. Fine video work, Trevor. Thank you so much for filming it and taking the care to add better audio. Excellent work! For those of us who missed the tour, this is as near to a TARDIS as we’ll…
Since I booked the gigs last night, I had in my head that I had 8 SM gigs booked for next year, convinced I had (without really thinking in those terms to begin with) fallen one short of this magical 9 figure I’d fallen upon these past couple of years. But…obviously I was neglecting to…
It’s a bit more spaced out than 2017 and the Acoustic tour. A little bit more like the stop-start of last year’s gigs. So…on the menu we have… Copenhagen (and OMG I can take in some Hans Christian Andersen history too!) Paris (the venue is a stunning building right on the Seine…I mean…IN THE MIDDLE…
I “wakened up” (as a certain Mr Kerr would say) at 3.30am having had a mixed and slightly fitful sleep. The reason? I had decided when it was announced Jim would be on the Zoe Ball Breakfast show on Radio 2 a couple of weeks back to bite the bullet and head on in to…
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And…he talks of KT, and I still need to sort out all my ticket stubs and the wonderful souvenir of KT’s plectrum caught on the first night in Dublin. I will never forget hearing It Took Me So Long To Get Here But Here I Am and how much it resonated with me and brought…
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Review of the U2/SimpleMinds/Big Country/Eurythmics mega gig at Phoenix Park, Dublin on August 14th, 1983. A shame the second page (and pic of Jim) is black and white. Never mind. Again, many thanks to shanemarais.net for the magazine scans.
Seeing as it was the latest artwork to get a revamp…how about a purely AWESOME version of Scar from the 5×5 Tour? Hell, yes!
And this is where all the visual memories and mementos of my Acoustic “gig hop” Tour come to rest. What an amazing three weeks it was! Nine Simple Minds gigs in 21 days! I may never get to repeat it…but I hope I do. I get the feeling the 40th anniversary is going to be…
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