May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Such desperately sad news reached the Simple Minds fanbase today, Jaine Henderson has passed away. I spoke to Jaine twice when I conducted my first interview for the blog. When I approached her initially she had reservations and graciously declined my request. Just a few days later though, she got back in contact with me…
Looking for something else to do to celebrate Burns Night other than downing some haggis, neeps and tatties? May I suggest that you get your lugholes around this? In case you somehow missed it (I dunno how you would!), Jim was on Billy Sloan’s show on Saturday night. Billy did ask one or two questions…
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So…my Facebook feed tonight threw this one up at me. A piece of poetry I wrote. It was based on going out for a meal in Sydney’s northern suburbs with my sister to a place called Sambal. There we are outside it. One of my favourite dishes is laksa and this place were doing a…
It’s a clipping I only recently came into possession of and I had never (for obvious reasons) read the article before. Some interesting things said. Interesting to read Mick saying that he thought they’d have all stayed together…maybe might had still been together (as of then) if Brian hadn’t have left when he did. Also…
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Love Brian in this shot. And check out Derek’s hair! Charlie actually looks a bit miserable…what’s going on???! And Jim is just…well…gorgeous (bias!)
I love the pictures from this photoshoot. Not many of them out on the ‘net are very clear – and in some of them Jim looks very dour (not that I’m complaining – Jim is *hawt* when he’s moody!) – but this period around 1982, I think he is just the most beautiful man on…
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Jim Kerr, aged 13. Still not the best copy (will have a go at getting a cleaner copy by scanning some time), but I’ve never seen this photo in colour before. It shows that even the most gorgeous people struggle with puberty.
Bottom row, third from left – a 10 year old Jim Kerr. The U-11 St Brigid’s Primary School, Toryglen, Glasgow, football team. He said: “I scored the odd goal but was an average player at best. I was never destined to play for Celtic!”
Jim – the little post-punk Howard Devoto-ee :-)) God love him!