May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Well, I have just secured tickets to see John Grant on my birthday, in Bath. OMG! Just too bloody excited! If you are interested in seeing John yourself, there are tickets on pre-sale now, and on general sale on Friday, April 27th. These will go like hot cakes! Most tickets are at the incredibly affordable…
Well, that makes up for the utter melancholia I was feeling for seeing Simple Minds doing meet and greets across North America and being in Vancouver just TWO DAYS before my birthday. Actual JOHN FUCKING GRANT ON MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY – IN BATH! Just about my favourite place in all of England! Squeeeeee! Thank you,…
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Oh, shit a proverbial brick! Look who was at the Hydro with Arcade Fire tonight! https://twitter.com/blinkclyro/status/985978392964161538?s=21 Bloody hell!
Oh, Mr Kerr, you are beautiful ?? Thank you to a certain someone sharing this on their FB timeline…just what I needed on my deathbed. If I die during my sleep tonight…I will die happy. Thank you for everything you’ve ever given me, Sir. I shall carry it with me always ??????
A bridge version split somewhere between the demo that can be sampled on Silver Box and what gets recorded for the Sister Feelings Call album…this is the only known live recording of SM performing Careful In Career. A song that I feel is vastly underrated within the SM canon. A pity it is so under-appreciated…
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My introduction to Ruts DC was with them being support to The Stranglers when seeing them last March at Cambridge Corn Exchange – and, well, conversely it was SM’s billing of support for them (The Stranglers) on the autumn arena leg of the Big Music tour that made me explore them more and go and…
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If you have a Twitter account…follow the instructions in the tweet (basically, like and retweet) by Tuesday, April 4th…GO! #Competition time! #Win a pair of golden circle tickets to Grandslam 2018 in Newark! Featuring an amazing line-up of #SimpleMinds #ThePretenders and #KTTunstall on 25th August, all you have to do is like and RT before…
This really IS a strange review…almost like it was written BEFORE the gig…if not certainly by someone not even there on the night. And they got the date wrong! Did they go by the erroneous date on the setlist sheet? (At least I feel less sad that my own copy of the setlist has the…
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Ooh, that move he does on the “she rag doll” line. Grrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrr RRRRRRRRR! You sex god! Lol *makes cat scratching hand gestures* From my view of the stage that night, that move he made was MOST enjoyable, I have to say. Talk about ovary explosion! (Given what happened in Manchester on the eve of…
A great set of photos by Naomi Dryden-Smith of the Walk Between Worlds Roundhouse gig.