May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
We have a new bit of lovely first class bootleg audio from Art & Talk to enjoy this weekend. This one from the next leg of the Sons And Fascination tour on Feb 26th, 1982 in Arnhem, The Netherlands. I’ve not listened to it yet myself, but will be later tonight. Cannae wait!
Today is the Winter Solstice. The shortest day in the northern hemisphere. Also Jupiter and Saturn align tonight to make what is deemed the “Christmas Star” – a once in 400 year alignment. And there promises to be clear skies over Glasgow this evening. Fingers crossed. Meanwhile, as we see in the Winter Solstice today,…
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Is it starting to feel like Christmas? Hmmm…not sure…
I love these photos! There were some photos shared on the SM group page by photographer Etienne Tordoir and he linked to his archive of photos on the facebook page that is linked to below on this post. On that page were photos he took of SM performing at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on March…
Another vid. Just short of an hour. Watch. Don’t watch. Nae mind.
The first episode of the Soundman Confidential podcast with Francis Xavier Gallagher has landed. It runs for 54 minutes and Jim is the first guest! You can subscribe to Frank’s podcast by clicking the image below, or by visiting soundmanconfidential.com
Geez, I loved them then. What a cracking version of Gloria! And to hear A Celebration being done live is fab. That line in Rejoice “I can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me” resonated so much with me.They were so flipping fab then. Honestly. Just watching this 9 minutes of…
I bury myself in the past because it is where all the best days are. Two things about these photos from Colchester Grandslam 2018 – 1) The first photo of us all lined up for the photo op – my face looks as it does as I am freaking out as to where to put…
I was FAAAR too excited and wanting to just…purge all this out to write it down. Had it been earlier in the day, I’d have written it out. I kind of miss “being in love”. Irony. Irony is so funny.
I have tentatively started to work on revising my Top 50 list of SM songs. Probably a good thing to do before finishing my “Why I love…” posts that I started over 5 years ago. Where the fork has that time gone? Us humans have the most bizarre relationship with time, don’t you think? On…
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