May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
OMG! I just HAD to steal this bit of Cherisse’s video clips on Instagram. I’d flipping melt like the bloody choc he’s talking about, if he spoke to me like that… Sorry the footage is a bit jerky (not all down to me, some of it is Cherisse’s recording of it), but I was coming…
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Gordy talks first gigs, rats, pudding bowl hair cuts and Ayr Pavilion. TARDIS please for the Ayr Pavilion story!
I seem to have missed one. I had 53 to share, but only 52 downloaded. I’ll share the other seperately when I can work out which one that’s missing. When viewing at the blog site, click on the thumbnails to see larger images. Images can be enlarged further by clicking at the bottom right of…
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I have to prefix this by saying…rather sadly now, this is my last Simple Minds gig for the foreseeable future. There are some Grandslams left, of course…Swindon, Ardingly and Taunton next weekend, and Inverness and Dundee the following weekend…then off they go to Mexico, the USA and Canada. Exciting times ahead for the band. But…
A great location for an outdoor venue…right in the heart of the city centre. It was one of the main reasons I chose to go to Leeds when tossing up which of these Grandslam gigs to go to back in the early spring. Leeds would be fairly cheap and hassle free for me to get…
The latest episode of Cherisse’s tour diary has just landed.
A bad prep for me, personally…a terrible night’s sleep, scared to death through very thundery storms. Adding impending doom to the forecast of weather conditions for the day. Stormy weather potentially ALL DAY! The sun was out at daybreak, and all had settled. Was it the “calm before the storm”? Only time would tell. The…
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Hey guys, you can view it any time you want to by clicking the link HERE or below. I took some screengrabs. Got some doozies! This one was the best of the lot. (I did blur out the scrolling comments, just so peoples’ names are protected.) Enjoy the clip! Three songs and a Q and…
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A bit of a curveball this week for MMM – the stonking new single from George Porter called Futureproof. Get your lugholes around THIS one, peeps! The SM link? George is of course frontman of SM tribute group Simple Minded. And the new single has been produced (and collaborated on) with none other than Gordy…
What a whirlwind it was! Still kinda wish I could have done all seven…but four weren’t bad, eh?