Major Edinburgh Festivals For August 2020 Cancelled
Wondering if that also means the Summer Sessions gigs in Princes Street Gardens are off too? That’ll be yet ANOTHER Simple Minds gig nae happening then? Fuck you 2020! Fuck you Coronavirus!
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Nae Summer Nights – For Summer Sessions
Why? I mean… of course Edinburgh needed a gig. But couldn’t we have had a Summer Nights gig at the Kelvingrove Bandstand too? I have enough gigs to be getting on with, I guess. Anyways… another gig. Edinburgh this time. August 18th. Further details, info to buy tickets, etc, from the usual sources. UPDATE: Tickets…
Priptona Talks – To Bruce Findlay: Part One
It’s the summer of 1978. Simple Minds have been alive and kicking for several months. Jim Kerr and David Henderson (sometimes with Graffiti record store manager Scott MacArthur in tow), during days between Simple Minds’ weekly residency at the Mars Bar, go knocking on doors trying to drum up record company interest, handing over a…
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Minds Music Monday – Home (Live In Edinburgh, 2015)
A cracking acoustic version of Home…because today I have been trying to see if it’s doable. If I can get out there. It won’t be the longest trip…but it would be a start! Better get my bloody skates on if I’m going to try and make it for the gig!
The Impossible Dream – Melody Maker – September 19th, 1981
It’s an odd piece, this one. Almost like how Jim described the opening line to Barrowland Star to me a couple of weeks back. It’s about everything and nothing…all at once. And this is the second time I’ve read about him being sick (not quite) on stage. But the first time coming directly from him….
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The Ears Have It!
I had to post this on SMO FB (the pic). Back in June at the Rip It Up exhibition in Edinburgh, I sssooooo wanted to sneak a pic of this neon sign, but I didn’t dare! It just instantly made me think of Jim and my silly fetish…and his interview with Georgey Spanswick in which…
Rip It Up, Edinburgh – Part One Of “The End Of The Week Whirlwind”
I’ve had two days away as part of a whirlwind cultural/music experience in Edinburgh and Newcastle. More on last night’s Warm Digits gig to come! But first, let’s talk Rip It Up – the exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, and of the talk given by Bruce Findlay and Ian Rankin, hosted by Vic…
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Don’t Mob The Music Mogul!
It seems the wrong word to use in some respects…as the way I interpret the word “mogul”, esp. when it comes to music moguls, I see types like Colonal Tom Parker, Tony Defries, Eric Hall, Don Arden, et al – larger than life types that just blag their way through stuff with brash, bolshy machismo….
Hip Hop Taps Aff! Lol (It rhymes…sorta)
This sounds like it’ll be great…a contribution from Jim as well! You can find more info about The Story Of Scottish Pop on the BBC Radio Scotland page by CLICKING HERE
Rip it Up Exhibition Article In Scottish Woman Magazine
Inside the latest edition of Scottish Woman magazine is a feature on the Rip It Up exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Running from June 22nd until November 25th, 2018. Thanks to the lovely Arlene for sending a copy of the magazine on to me, it is much appreciated. It looks like…
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