May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
After a long, dry spell… (the last new release from Simple Minds being the release of For One Night Only for the 40: The Best Of Simple Minds 1979-2019 release towards the end of 2019) THERE IS NEWS! A new release from Simple Minds in celebration of the band’s debut gig at Glasgow’s Satellite City…
There was new music news yesterday. Sarah Brown shared details of her debut solo album. The album is a tribute to the music of the wonderful and inspirational Mahalia Jackson. The first single off Sarah’s album, I’m On My Way, will be released on the same day as Themes For Great Cities, January 27th. The…
Off topic for a reputed Simple Minds blog but… I think this band is just about my favourite of the young Glasgow bands about at the moment and ONE DAY I’ll brave going to see them live. Over the past couple of years they’ve released several singles. Billy Sloan has been a champion of them…
The Dark Flowers (aka Paul Statham and friends) are set to release material in a few weeks time, featuring guest vocalists that we know and love. First to launch will be E.P. “Death and Desire”, released on March 19th and featuring guest vocal performances from Gabriella Cilmi, Shelly Poole and our very own Anchoress. Lead…
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In Jim’s post today he talked about The Beatles track Tomorrow Never Knows. Now whenever it gets mentioned I think of this. When it was released, someone left a comment on the Field Music Facebook post saying “it has a Tomorrow Never Knows vibe to it”. When I listened to the track again, I could…
Great news from Sarah Brown’s social media pages yesterday. Some more good news would be most welcome. There is such conflicting stuff I’m seeing at the moment when it comes to live music. Who knows where we’ll be by the summer? I’m not feeling very hopeful. The 1975 have cancelled all their 2021 dates, meanwhile…
Someone dropped THIS bombshell this morning as I was preparing my punk themed post… You guys know where to get all the info from. You don’t need me to update you. This blog would be surplus to requirements if its purpose was to report Simple Minds news! Lol. The band have that one covered on…
It has been a little over 10 years since Catherine Anne Davies and Bernard Butler first decided to team up with each other and work on producing music together. They quickly felt they had the makings of an album together. Little by little things came together, building on their work together when time allowed. A…
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I was listening to some stuff on Spotify last night. Started listening to things labelled “Neo-classical” on shuffle mode – just to help keep me calm as the storms stirred outside. Anything that particularly strikes a chord with me when I play random shuffle mode I just take a quick screengrab of so I can…