May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Again, it will be of no surprise to anyone to see Hamish Hawk’s Angel Numbers in my Top 5 Albums of 2023. It was by far my most played album of the year. Both it and Hamish’s previous album, Heavy Elevator, have been on pretty solid rotation all through 2023. The penmanship in his songwriting…
My two biggest musical loves, in case it has escaped your attention here, somehow, are Simple Minds (obviously!) and David Bowie. My diehard Bowie fandom goes as far back as 1985. My SM fandom is much more recent (2014) but I was, of course, aware of them long before that and was very much a…
He’s 75 years old and you’d never know it to listen to this new album. This week has seen a new album release from one James Newell Osterberg Jr (aka Iggy Pop). I had a listen to it on Friday night – admitting that I hardly pay any attention to new material from the Iggster…