May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yours truly! It was wonderful to be invited on to In Your Room to talk to Mick, Derek and Brian about my book: Simple Minds Song by Song and to also ask them questions about certain songs from the back catalogue. We had great fun. I really hope you enjoy watching.
I have been delving into the extended mixes offered by the YouTube channel 110Berlin and their output is getting very good indeed. It has taken me a little while to catch up with their output since my previous post. Sometimes, some things still don’t quite hit the mark, but of the mixes I have listened…
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Normal service for MMM will resume next week, but until then I’d like to share a special gift from my mate Baggers. Kant Kino is one of my favourite, if not my MOST FAVOURITE, Simple Minds instrumental. Only problem is, it’s so short! “No probs. I’ll sort it!”, said Baggers to me and lo! He…
When I wanna call out what would I say?I don’t wanna be here anyway.Still searching tonight.
Some new arrivals for this Kerrsday. The first three are all promo photos taken of Jim inside the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. The black and white photo has a newspaper headline attached to it on the back that translates in English as saying, “Jim Kerr in Simple Minds visited Stockholm Stadium on Saturday, where the…
It is my favourite Simple Minds instrumental. My favourite David Bowie track of them all is A New Career In A New Town – that “town” being Berlin. I heard an instant parallel between ANCIANT and Kant Kino. Both have an incredible emotional pull on me – both brought me to tears the first time…
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Here is part two of my interview with Jaine Henderson. Sometimes things were not without some bizarre set of dangers, like the time Jaine found herself a hair’s breadth away from being jailed for “possession of a concealed weapon”. Lights would fuse. Wires would fray. Things needed repairing on the spot and the easiest way…
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It is my favourite SM instrumental. I really don’t know why I find it such an emotional piece, but I do. There is just something I find really…tender… about that riff of Charlie’s. It’s short, repetitive loop just brings me to tears…and perhaps it is that combined with that end reel to reel tape loop…
I present to you, the Bagger’s Tantrum Remix of Kant Kino! A few days ago I linked to Kant Kino on Spotify and said in a followup FB post that the only problem with it, is that it’s far too short. Well, Baggers fixed that for me, and I now have a 4 minute 48…
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No “lyric of the day” seems appropriate today. So for today, instead of what would have been a “lyric of the day” post, it will be an instrumental one. Some instrumentals effect me in such a profound way. A New Career In A New Town by Bowie himself, is one. Another is the beautiful Kant Kino by…
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