May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I started listening to this one last night. And even compared to Aberdeen – which they played the following night – WOW! Jesus! This gig is just BRAW! Mel is just playing like a demon! I had been lamenting some, over what was Mike’s last gig with them a few weeks prior (Nov. 7th in…
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I started listening to a new bootleg last night (new to me, at least!) of Simple Minds in Melbourne on the New Gold Dream tour of 1982. It’s their second night in Melbourne (having performed the previous night at the Latrobe University campus) and their fourth night on the Australian leg of the tour. It…
I started listening to this gig last night. First thing that hits you is that Capital City is not quite Capital City. From what I can tell, this is its debut outing and the song at this point is just referred to as “Pulse”. There are different words to it, there’s no “city that we…
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New row of 10.
Yesterday morning when I opened up Facebook to catch up with what had been posted, etc, during the night while I had been sleeping, I looked at my notifications to see I’d been tagged in a post on one of the SM groups. The tag linked to what is below. A new upload from Art…
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It’s a daily ritual to check whether “new” content under the banner of “Simple Minds” has been uploaded to YouTube. And I try to remember to check every morning. Sometimes (not very often, granted!) it slips my mind but I usually check at least once every day. This morning I was on top of it…
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I don’t know. I didn’t talk as much about the “strange relationship” as I wanted to. (But I still talked a fuckload!) It was an odd title. I know he chose it for the Prince song but…I kind of missed the connection between the choice of Prince song and the subject of the taxi driver….
It’s a proper old style bootleg – but a good quality one – from in the crowd rather than the soundboard. And you get to hear said crowd go mental when Jim intros certain songs, or hear how raucous the applause is when certain songs end. Most of the setlist sparks rapturous applause and reactions,…
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Great news from Sarah Brown’s social media pages yesterday. Some more good news would be most welcome. There is such conflicting stuff I’m seeing at the moment when it comes to live music. Who knows where we’ll be by the summer? I’m not feeling very hopeful. The 1975 have cancelled all their 2021 dates, meanwhile…
A chat and a bit of a look-see at my new fangirl treasure… Isn’t it FABULOUS?! ???