Tag: live
Waxing Lyrical On The Airwaves
This is probably going to be the biggest aspect of the whole Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call celebration, from my own personal viewpoint, than anything else I could have imagined. (Bar the band announcing some last minute gig going on in Glasgow for it. Settle down! I’ve heard NOTHING – I’m just dreaming!) What are…
Minds Music Monday – Careful In Career – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
The first thing I love about this song is…the two keyboard notes that intro it – sitting on top of another single note. Then the subtle building of the tempo with the kick drum beats. Then the snare comes in with the bass guitar quickly following. Then there’s Charlie Burchill…wailing guitar maestro. Then…the pièce de…
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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…
Minds Music Monday – Wonderful In Young Life – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
I’ve written about this song so much – when I actually COULD write about it! When I could somehow manage to express all that it means to me. The first time I heard it I was probably only about four weeks into my fandom. It brought me to tears the very first time. I had…
Forever Bowie Friday – Beck Reimagines Sound and Vision
I had never heard this before until a friend shared it with me earlier in the week. What an epic thing it is. Enjoy!
Minds Music Monday – Love Song – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
The song was written at the beginning of 1981 in Edinburgh after a conversation between Jim and John Leckie in which Leckie thought Jim should try his hand at writing a more “traditional” love song. Kerr’s is anything but traditional. In fact, I am firmly of the belief that it is anything BUT a love…
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My Saturday Afternoon “Feels“
This is so dark, yet so sexy. I’ve been listening a BBC 4 Radio play adaptation of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and it reminds me of a scene out of it. I’ve been reading interviews with Jim of late in which he says there’s beauty in fear. In addition to that I’d say there is…
Minds Music Monday – Seeing Out The Angel – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration
“So when I thought Charlie’s guitar in ‘Angel’ sounded like church bells…” – writes Adam Sweeting, having just been given an explanation by Jim of the ideas behind the song. You can read a full extract of that below. I’d be intrigued to know what the book of short stories was. I thought for a…
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Happy Canada Day
Any excuse will do…