May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Today is the Winter Solstice. The shortest day in the northern hemisphere. Also Jupiter and Saturn align tonight to make what is deemed the “Christmas Star” – a once in 400 year alignment. And there promises to be clear skies over Glasgow this evening. Fingers crossed. Meanwhile, as we see in the Winter Solstice today,…
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Today Billy Sloan on his show page for BBC Radio Scotland was asking which gig that you’ve been to in the past would you want to go back and experience again. Not sure I would want to go to any specific ones, really. Probably just any Simple Minds one. But…oh, the chance to see them…
Continuing on a Swedish theme…his Kerrness, in a bath in a hotel writing lyrics for this in the summer of 1982, in Sweden. Nom Nom Nom
Of course, we have had the visuals for this gig, in a truncated 35 minute set that Virgin Records recorded…but this is the full gig from the night. It would be wonderful if Virgin would release the full visual experience…or even a higher quality audio experience of the full gig than this already quite passible…
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Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Newcastle City Hall gig on the New Gold Dream tour. Let’s celebrate it with 35 minutes of sheer bliss… https://youtu.be/Ff430pVVebg
A lovely memento I got for myself on eBay last week. It’s a silly idea really, to buy things about a gig you never went to, but I loved the idea of having this pictures to look at and keep. They aren’t the best quality, for sure. Taken on a pokey 110 camera…but the intimacy…
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Love him during his “goth” period. Oh, who am I kidding?! I love him – period!