May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have over the past few days found myself super intrigued by the artwork of the Neon Lights album. I suddenly started to wonder who designed it, and more importantly, who wrote out the tracklisting on the cassette cover. It didn’t seem like it was Jim’s writing but I couldn’t help but think how awesome…
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I started listening to the Bitter Sweet Symphony experimental offshoot – or “curveball” (if you will) of the main weekly “Are You Not Entertained?” podcast last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. Let me explain… I confess that it isn’t something I listen to regularly (the AYNE podcast) as, well….I’m not majorly into sport, and certainly…
Regular visitors to the blog will be able tell how much graphics and the visual arts feature here and in my life in general. I’m a bit of an amateur artist and love creating my own visual interpretations and I also like to draw and paint (even if I am not very good at it)….
I had been pondering doing this for some time, once I felt my collection had been big enough to deem it worthy. Probably the past 18 months or 2 years, but we were so crammed in our place in Luton, it never really seemed doable. Then we moved to Glasgow, had much more space to…
It must have been the time of David’s 50th Birthday Bash. It’s not until I watch something like this do I forget just how much I miss him. What a beautiful brain he was. I am always floored by the intelligence that just DRIPS off him.
Even just the way the interview started. Even BEFORE hearing the start of the interview, I knew it would be awesome. But…just the start. The ringing phone, and as soon as the phone is answered Frank saying “give me a one-two” and Jim saying…well, I won’t spoil it. But it had be grinning like a…
The first episode of the Soundman Confidential podcast with Francis Xavier Gallagher has landed. It runs for 54 minutes and Jim is the first guest! You can subscribe to Frank’s podcast by clicking the image below, or by visiting soundmanconfidential.com
A short piece in the latest edition of Uncut Magazine about Dana Gillespie and her new book. They spoke to her early on in the MainMan podcast series, in which she pretty much described herself as David Bowie’s f*** buddy – well, I guess a bit more than that – but she was emphatic that…
I’ll link to the interview when it appears. In the meantime, here’s a link to Chris Leslie’s website – all will become obvious with the watching of the video. www.chrisleslie.com