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RIP Kenny Hyslop

RIP Kenny Hyslop

Sad news in the Simple Minds community today, with the news that Kenny Hyslop has sadly passed away. In recent months Kenny had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which he described as ‘the dreaded lurgy.’ An absolute drumming legend, playing for many, including Slik. His stint with Simple Minds may have been brief but was…

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Minds Music Monday – Bootleg Beaut

Minds Music Monday – Bootleg Beaut

Forty two years ago yesterday, Simple Minds played a gig at the Musicians Club in Sydney to a lively and enthusiastic crowd. As one would imagine for a gig in the Australian summer, the venue was steamin’ like a sauna. The small auditorium filled with sweaty young things. Thanks to recent photographic sharing and memories…

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A Kerrsday/Band Photo Special – Curtesy of John Gresham

A Kerrsday/Band Photo Special – Curtesy of John Gresham

These photos are AMAZING! Taken of the band during their inaugural tour of Australia in 1981. I just wanted to share these seeing as it’s Kerrsday and the colour photos feature mainly Jim on his own. The final two are my favourites. The colour one has such an atmosphere to it. They’re just stunning photos….

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Review –  A Very Simple Mind: On Tour by Derek Forbes

Review – A Very Simple Mind: On Tour by Derek Forbes

If you know me then you will know that I have said MANY times that I am a very slow reader. There have been very few exceptions where I am able to ramp up the pace of my reading to such a degree that I am able to devour a book in less than a…

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Minds Music Monday – New Gold Dream on Retropopic Radio

Minds Music Monday – New Gold Dream on Retropopic Radio

UPDATE: A second part has been posted below. A bit of a different one for MMM this week. One I wasn’t expecting to post in all honesty. I saw this posted late last night and thought it worthy of a link. Neil Saint of Retropopic Radio talks to Derek Forbes, Kenny Hyslop and Jim Kerr…

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Minds Music Monday – More Is More – Anniversaries for: Promised You A Miracle, Life In A Day and Cry

Minds Music Monday – More Is More – Anniversaries for: Promised You A Miracle, Life In A Day and Cry

The albums are “middling”. Not my immediate “go to” albums but there are tracks on them that I absolutely adore. All For You was one of the earliest songs -chronologically speaking –  to sway me into full diehard SM fandom. Pleasantly Disturbed blew my mind when I first heard it. It’s such an epic! Akin…

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Minds Music Monday – Seductively Celebratory At The Whisky A Go-Go, LA – 1981

Minds Music Monday – Seductively Celebratory At The Whisky A Go-Go, LA – 1981

I know! I should be concentrating on all things Direction Of The Heart right now. And trust me, my brain has not tuned out of the album, yet. Nearly all the songs from the album are jostling for position as the latest earworm. They are all on constant rotation in my head, playing non stop!…

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Better Late Than Never – Happy 40th New Gold Dream!

Better Late Than Never – Happy 40th New Gold Dream!

What’s happening to me? I’ve just come to a complete ceasing of wanting to write/type at the moment. I *want* to write – but I feel like I have such an excess to get off my chest that it just feels easier, and more fun in some ways, to just do a vlog. I like…

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Happy Anniversary – Love Song

Happy Anniversary – Love Song

Released 41 years ago today. My favourite bit of this video? – (apart from Jim just dripping ultra cool sex god vibes) – the moment Jim and Derek almost crash into one another and have a cheeky wee exchange of grins and giggles – around the 1 min 45 second mark. Enjoy! Click to view…

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Minds Music Monday (On A Wednesday) – League Of Nations – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration

It’s very curious to read that League Of Nations was worked on in the early recording sessions of the Sons/Sister albums because it really does sound so incomplete! And especially given that as soon as they go on tour for the album – the first leg of the tour within the UK –  they are…

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