May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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Let me try and explain the title of this blog post as clearly as I can. As a person who feels as if they are (in all likelihood) on the autism spectrum, I had a lightbulb moment last night. I watch a selection of YouTube videos by certain autistic content creators. I’m pretty sure that…
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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Let me start by saying this post has already caused a dilemma for me with the two blogs and as to where I should place this. Posts will have to come down to meeting certain criteria as to where they get posted. This one ticked the first box, a simple “Is this post related to…
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It’s been seven years. Seven years since I became that rabid “obsessive”. Seven years since the world of Simple Minds truly opened up to me. I was reminded of the fact of how…embedded in this new-found “obsession” I was by a post that appeared in my FB “memories” a couple of days back. The memory…
Let’s try and reset the clock and think of the good things. Before I start that – thank you to Sage, who commented on a previous post with some rather apt – as her name suggests – sage words. I’d like to think I am intelligent enough, and I know what needs to be done…
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I think it has been coming for some time. I think I might be spent. Done. I don’t think I have any more to give. It is a heavy heart that I say this with. My personal fandom for Simple Minds has altered. I love them. I absolutely love them! I can still wax lyrical…
I’m yet to receive my copy of the book – so I actually don’t know a lot of what’s inside. (Despite some fans being hellbent on showing us all the contents of the book by sharing all their bits on the group pages – as excited as I am for all the fans that are…
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…
How does one define how ‘long’ the longterm is? I ponder because in Jim’s post today he talks about the “Book Of Brilliant Things” or whatever it’s going to end up being called. The fan-based SM compendium. “….we are looking to create something to which all longterm Simple Minds fans will hopefully want to contribute…