May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It was around 1995. I’m not exactly sure when. Most likely around the time the band released their ARIA No. 1 album, Hi Fi Way. I didn’t get a copy of it straight away but my best mate, Steven, was RAVING about them. The band I’m talking about is one of Australia’s most successful bands…
This week it’s a rather tenuous Fanatical Friday. Magazine have been one of my more recent discoveries, and as a consequence of being a Simple Minds fan and through Jim extolling the virtues of the band during my years of SM fandom. The first thing I noticed was this little visual nod that Jim gave…
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There used to be a silly kind of shame attached to admitting to liking this genre of music. It was a long time before I admitted to myself that I liked their music. There were albums in the collection at my mum’s house that I can’t recall knowing how or why they got there. Some…
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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…
Or, as I know them better as, Spy Vs Spy – but the guys got themselves into trouble from the comic publication of the same name so they had to alter their name for legal reasons. My love for them started around 1987. They had released the album A.O. Mod. TV Vers. at the end…
Yesterday Jim posted about it being 50 years of concert-going for him. A vast swathe of those concerts he’s experienced from the other side of the auditoria as being frontman of one of the world’s best bands (don’t tell him I said that – don’t want him getting a big head now! Lol. Too late!). …
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I first learned about these guys from listening to BBC Radio 6 Music. More specifically a guest DJ slot one day back in….2016, I think it might have been…? Or maybe 2017? Trying to do some research for this – it could have been as far back as 2015! Anyway, it was being hosted by…
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So, what do I say here? This is the inaugural post for Fanatical Friday and it can be about anything music related. It doesn’t have to be about Simple Minds…but…this first one will be. Last night I listened to “Traffic” and the Acoustic Mix of it. That aspect I will leave for discussion on Monday…
As you might have been able to tell from a few of the new Christmas themed banners that have appeared on the blog, I am trying to give it a bit of a spruce and a rejig. It’s going to be the slow end of the year. Jim’s gone quiet now. There’s been time for…