May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
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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Discussing the blog, what to do with and also the desire to revise the “Why I Love…” Simple Minds Top 50 songs.
I’ve been out today just…enjoying a beautiful, sunny autumnal day in Glasgow. It has been glorious all day and so…I’ll deal with it all tomorrow. What else is there to say but…embrace the suck!
This was posted a short time ago by promoters Regular Music on their Facebook page. One can’t help but wonder if it is the first of many for next year’s gigs. And, as a truly sad indicator of where we are at, the concert been rescheduled but cancelled outright. Simple Minds rescheduled their April Hydro…