May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The first of a summer long season of outdoor gigs for Simple Minds kicks off on Saturday in the beautiful Croatian city of Split. A FREE concert, no less, put on by the city for its residents. I looked into going…but there was no chance of doing it on a shoe string. Easyjet only fly…
Hey guys, you can view it any time you want to by clicking the link HERE or below. I took some screengrabs. Got some doozies! This one was the best of the lot. (I did blur out the scrolling comments, just so peoples’ names are protected.) Enjoy the clip! Three songs and a Q and…
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Get yourself over to Facebook on 6pm Monday BST to have some LIVE interactivity with the best band in the universe! It’s going to be the ULTIMATE Minds Music Monday! Full details on SMO FB…or see the link below…
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…