May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Adding some more memories not yet shared from this Simple Minds Acoustic “gig hop” Tour. Stuff from Brilliant Brid coming up… A view of the seafront the morning after the gig (and THE MEETING!). It’s a lovely place. If SM play there again in future, I’m definitely taking the trip up! Crossing The Humber Bridge,…
I went to bed after midnight on, what was then, Tuesday morning and needed to be up again some FOUR HOURS later to pack and get myself ready for a 6.50am flight out. I was out the door by 5.10am. Got the airport 10 mins later…had to wait another 10 mins for a shuttle bus…
“It’s all over Rose, pick up your clothes” Final reviews in a day or two…
It was a bit of a dry spell waiting between Bristol and Brighton…but I was riding on such a high from him talking to me on the stage in Bristol (and poking his tongue out at me!) that it saw me through the whole week. The weather was lovely for Brighton. Still lovely and sunny,…
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Palladium: I thought I was going to be late into London. Was panicking about missing the coach to London and then traffic being chaotic and getting there with very little time to spare. As it was, I got there in plenty of time – with two hours before doors opened. I was totally dolled up….
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Now…where do I start with this one? Getting there? Delays getting into Hull. Points signal failures in Hull meant trains arriving were backing up. It took a good extra hour before I arrived in Brid. I checked into the place I was staying at. I was meant to have a single room, but was given…
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I arrived in Liverpool at 3.20pm. I felt I didn’t have too much time on my hands to explore, so took a slow meander to reccie the venue. I did it at Glasgow too. I just like to walk around the whole outer of a venue and…well, find where the stage door is. I did…
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God I bloody loved this on Thursday night!!! I might not like the version on the Acoustic album too much…but I love it live….and Thursday’s performance was really special. I loooooved the sing-a-long. So awesome!
WOW! What a gig to start on! Where to begin?! The Anchoress! A short set, but beautiful! I made a very loud, audible whoop when she introduced her song, Bury Me. It’s my favourite on the album and I was so hoping she’d do it. I was just happy :-)) Doesn’t Kill You and PS:…