ALL OF NEW GOLD DREAM – FOR A GREAT CAUSE…
I have nothing else to say but – well…check out their social media for more. Tickets on sale at 9am GMT, Friday 25th March. All profits to UNICEF for children in the Ukraine. ??
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Minds Music Monday – Manchester 28/11/1982
I listened to this over again early on Sunday morning. I love how clearly Jim’s voice comes across on this recording. I don’t know who was responsible for recording it? Frank, mabbies? Seeing as it’s a soundboard recording…? Dunno. But I am sssoooo very thankful it exists! I mean, Newcastle from the week before is…
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Little Treasures…
That cost a bomb. A few little unseen treasures from various publications. Sadly music magazines are notorious for not always giving photo credits, but I will try and credit those who took these gems, if published. This one is a small little inset. A clipping from what I think might be a Dutch magazine. Taken…
Review: Themes For Great Cities – A New History of Simple Minds by Graeme Thomson
“This is a fast story”, author Graeme Thomson says at the beginning of the book and keeps reminding us a few more times further in. It’s a story of the formative years of two pals from Toryglen, their school chum down the road, the keyboard player from the Chinese restaurant and the bass player that…
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As Dorothy Said To Aunty Em…
“There’s no place like home.” A much used quote lifted from The Wizard Of Oz. But it rings true. And it certainly seemed to have rung true on the nights of November 18th and 19th, 1982. Simple Minds had just returned to Glasgow after another whirlwind stint of touring to the far reaches of the…
Pictorial Passion – Musical Years In Review – 2021 and 1982
Last night Spotify revealed my yearly listening stats to me. There was no real surprise to find Simple Minds at the top of the tree yet again! And that Boys From Brazil was my top track for seventh year running. All the SM tracks in my Top 5 played tracks of 2021 all came from…
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The Quiet Side Of Midnight – Priptona Art
The “art” very much comes and goes in waves these days. I must be needing some visual therapy as I have found myself working on the visual side of things again these past few days. I don’t feel anywhere near as depressed and “affected” as I did this time last year leading up to my…
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Minds Music Monday – Ritchie’s Club – New Orleans – 27/04/1983
Ghost Dancer (aka Stuart Greaves) has shared another gem of a bootleg, this time of SM some seven months into the New Gold Dream tour of ‘82/‘83 – midway through the North American leg of the tour in April/May of 1983. Playing the Ritchie’s Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recorded by a member of the…
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Happy Anniversary – New Gold Dream!
In the Simple Minds world, album release anniversaries are like buses – they all seem to come along at once! Lol Take yesterday, for example. Not only was it the anniversary of the release of Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call, but it was also the anniversary for the release of Empires And Dance and Black…
The Tube – THE WHOLE EPISODE! November, 1982.
OMG! THIS IS SSOOO AWESOME TO SEE THE WHOLE EPISODE OF THE TUBE – OF THEM ON IT IN 1982. Oh, how I can dream to be sitting in front of the telly that night just…in awe of Jim. Needing a bucket in front of me to collect the drool! Dear God! What a gem!…
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