May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
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…
Opened in 1965, Rockfield Studios is the world’s first residential studio facility and is now rated among the world’s finest and most characterful recording environments. We visit the iconic facility to find out more about its history and its part in the recording of so many classic albums. A great article from MusicTech about the…
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It’s a strange thing, research. You can be looking for one thing and will unearth something else entirely! Take a song like Here Comes The Fool, for example. It makes its first known live appearance shortly after the release of Life In A Day and is played at gigs in the summer. Here Comes The…
Long Live Vinyl magazine is issuing a special run of the magazine called “The Vinyl Buyer’s Bible”. Volume 2 is currently on the shelves and I had a flick through a digital copy. The “bible” is broken down into certain genres of music. In amongst the latest edition was a “How To Buy” on the…
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Great to see this in the latest edition of Long Live Vinyl magazine. The hallowed Empires And Dance where it should be…part of a list of the best and most influential post-punk albums to listen to.
Back nearly FOUR YEARS ago now, when I took those tentative steps into exploring the Simple Minds back catalogue and having quickly listened to Life In A Day and Real To Real Cacophony to move onto Empires And Dance and fall instantly in love…it was Twist/Run/Repulsion that was the first track I heard that absolutely…
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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…
It is my favourite SM instrumental. I really don’t know why I find it such an emotional piece, but I do. There is just something I find really…tender… about that riff of Charlie’s. It’s short, repetitive loop just brings me to tears…and perhaps it is that combined with that end reel to reel tape loop…
F*** you, Tyrone Flex (and the horse you rode in on)! Empires And Dance is a f***ing MASTERPIECE! You know jack shit. Don’t you be f***ing dissing Constantinople Line and Thirty Frames, you asshat! “Lack of anything else to say”? He was being deliberately sparing and atmospheric, you F**K! Actually faaaaaar too intellectual for the…
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Seeing as it’s anniversary day… If I was at home I’d be playing my prized first pressing vinyl copy, but these is modern times!