May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yes, I know! This blog is fast becoming less a Simple Minds blog and more a Hamish Hawk blog. Which makes me wonder what the collective noun for Hamish Hawk fans would be? Hawkers? Hames? HH’ers? ‘Hawkers’ has a good ring to me. But I digress. As some of you may be aware (if not,…
Yes, I am VERY EXCITED! Hamish has a new single out called Big Cat Tattoos (which he’d played a few times during the gigs I’ve been to) – and a new album drops on 16 August called A Firmer Hand, available in various formats. There’s also signings/instore appearances in England (for some reason that defies…
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I thought the song title was HUMAN Traffic? That’s how it appears on all the album’s artwork. So now it is being released as a single and being referred to as only (only only only) “Traffic”? This is such a strange decision, and I can only assume that they thought that Human Traffic was too…
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Sarah Brown has a new single out from her superb ‘….Sings Mahalia Jackson’ album. The track is called Didn’t It Rain and it is my favourite track off the album. Next Monday I fly down to London to see Sarah play the iconic jazz venue in Soho, Ronnie Scott’s. The gig is a sellout and…
It’s just beautiful! It really is beautiful. “Becoming what you’re meant to.” The sentiment of it. The lyrics. You know what I’m like. The lyrics always hit me. Geez…I’m nearly blubbing here!
It has taken me a few days to get to this as the song was released on the day of the Paris gig and there was no official video released until yesterday. OMG – what an uplifting song! Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and be having a shoogle about (got to get…
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Fantastic video and killer album track! Take a listen here! Pre-order the album here – https://theanchoress.tmstor.es/
I sadly missed the premiere radio play of The Anchoress’s new single, Show Your Face, this afternoon on BBC Radio 6 Music with Steve Lamacq as I was making my way into Glasgow’s West End (for my belated birthday treat of seeing GlasGlow at the Botanic Gardens – some vids and pics in a separate…
A bit of a curveball this week for MMM – the stonking new single from George Porter called Futureproof. Get your lugholes around THIS one, peeps! The SM link? George is of course frontman of SM tribute group Simple Minded. And the new single has been produced (and collaborated on) with none other than Gordy…
The video has landed! Also, a different edit single version is available to hear on Spotify, and is availble for download for those who pre-ordered the album. Details, and further links on SMO social media platforms.