The Gig List (As of 26/01/20)

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Here’s my list of gigs to look forward to.

Something to keep me happy.

Feb 1st – Field Music, Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Feb 10th – Polica (Warm Digits are support – and the reason I’m going), St Lukes and Winged Ox

March 3rd – Bryan Ferry, SEC Armadillo

March 10th – Simple Minds, Vega Copenhagen

March 12th – King Creosote, Royal Concert Hall

April 4th – Simple Minds, La Seine Musicale Paris

April 6th – Simple Minds, Arkea Arena Bordeaux

April 18th – Simple Minds, First Direct Arena Leeds

April 22nd – Simple Minds, 3Arena Dublin

April 25th – Simple Minds, SSE Hydro

May 14th, John Grant, Festival Theatre Edinburgh

June 17th – Crowded House, SSE Hydro

July 18th – Simple Minds, Teatro Greco Taormina

August 13th – Simple Minds, P&J Live Aberdeen

Dec 1st – Simple Minds & OMD, Margaret Court Arena Melbourne

Dec 3rd – Simple Minds & OMD, First State Super Arena Sydney

Dec 5th – Simple Minds, OMD and Eurogliders, A Day On The Green – Bimbadgen Winery Hunter Valley

At Least It’s ‘On Topic’….

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So…two of my recent posts to the SMO visitor wall get deleted for…whatever reason. Okay. Fair enough.

But this gets to stay? No comeback from Jim? Nae nuthin’?

Well, it’s “on topic”, I suppose.

At least they’ve been allowed to express an opinion…

To each their own.

Great Covers

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I was listening to Billy Sloan’s show on BBC Radio Scotland last night and he played a previously unreleased version of Bowie’s I Can’t Read which is set to be released on a new compilation due out on Record Store Day called CHANGESNOWBOWIE. He then followed it up by playing a cover of Absolute Beginners. Almost immediately I was like “woah, this is pretty good. WTF is this?!”

To my utter amazement, when it finished Billy revealed it to be Steve Harley. My gob was truly smacked. That was NOT the name I was expecting to hear at the end of it. I don’t know whose name I WAS expecting…but it wasn’t Steve Harley’s. But hats off to him. It’s a wonderful version.

Don’t believe me? Here’s the link to Billy’s show. Absolute Beginners plays about 48 mins in. Give it a listen and see what you think.

It’s a track on Harley’s upcoming release called Uncovered. I’d be intrigued to hear the rest based on this track.

Link to the show can be found below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000dq4p

Weekend WhirliGIG – BBC Radio 1 – 1979

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The return of the weekend whirligig sees us revisiting SM performing a set for BBC Radio One “in concert”.

Contains cracking versions of White Light/White Heat, original Kerr lyrics to Scar and a great Pleasantly Disturbed, marred only by having lines of my least favourite David Bowie song – the truly turgid Memory Of  A Free Festival – within it.

 

Kerr’s Got Another Babe…

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Well, well, well….maybe he DOES listen to fans after all? Those who make a loud enough fuss, kicking and screaming that the dynamic of Simple Minds was fundamentally broken without a full-time keyboard player in the fold.

Enter Berenice Scott!

And…we are now back to full contingency.

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In Other News – White Hot Day – March 21st

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And as we are now half-way through the first month of 2020, the other focus is on gigs and other events in the calendar.

High on the anticipation scale is White Hot Day – the first Simple Minds fan convention in over 15 years and the first I’ve had the opportunity of being able to attend. Fans are coming from all over the world to attend. It really is going to be something.

Tickets are available HERE – and if are travelling from afar to sunny Glasgow, I may be able to put you up for the night.

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