May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
My two biggest musical loves, in case it has escaped your attention here, somehow, are Simple Minds (obviously!) and David Bowie. My diehard Bowie fandom goes as far back as 1985. My SM fandom is much more recent (2014) but I was, of course, aware of them long before that and was very much a…
A great and rather open interview with Michael Rother in Uncut magazine, exploring his music career, focusing on his time working with Klaus Dinger on Neu! – a rather fractious and strained musical partnership by Rother’s own account, moving on to Harmonia and finally working solo. It has given me more musical off shoots to…
Have played it several times today. I have been told it will get a pre-gig outing on Saturday night…I look forward to it 🙂
While the next gig on the agenda is mere days away in Aix, and the sense of trepidation for the impending trip builds manifold, the gigs following will see me at two Caezar gigs. Today on their Facebook page, Caezar talked about the playlist they’d like to compile to play pre-gig and threw it open…
https://youtu.be/RIZu_gqFOgU First time I ever heard this was earlier in the year when Iggy Pop played it on his radio show. It was so beautiful, I cried. One of the most beautiful pieces of music I’d heard in a long time (minus some Simple Minds songs, obvs.). I really do need La Dusseldorf in my…