May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
As the Glasgow shows inch ever closer, I don’t think I have been this excited for Simple Minds gigs since that warm, splendid weekend in the middle of August in 2022. Everything about that weekend was incredible. And it’s going to be hard to top it. But right now, by God are they giving it…
Oh, something to be happy about! Yay! Still struggling to get my essay together for uni – just refining, editing, wanting to present it well, etc. Other things aside of that too still niggling away too. Never mind! The assignment IS the priority for now. It’s due midday Thursday and I have more incentive than…
Next Monday evening I am off to the Hydro to see Roxy Music’s 50th Anniversary show. I have been looking forward to this for MONTHS! So…in celebration of this, here’s SM’s only cover of a Roxy song. Goddamn I wish they’d picked something else! But, I guess Jim loves it. It is probably my least…
I am ssooo looking forward to Friday. After having experienced a concert by one of the most talented songwriters in the world last week, this Friday means another night spent in the presence of one of the world’s best songwriters yet again! How spoiled am I? Neil Finn – in my opinion – does not…
Today I’ve been baking a date loaf. It’s looking really good and I was having a moment of feeling particularly chuffed about it and then wrote this post on the SM FB wall. Then I thought “given recent outcomes to some of my posts, I’ll take a screengrab – it’ll probably get taken down”. Just…
I “wakened up” (as a certain Mr Kerr would say) at 3.30am having had a mixed and slightly fitful sleep. The reason? I had decided when it was announced Jim would be on the Zoe Ball Breakfast show on Radio 2 a couple of weeks back to bite the bullet and head on in to…
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