May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Details for London’s appearance have landed, with JK and CB in conversation with Mariella Sometimes. Taking place at the British Library on Tuesday 21 October at 7pm. London prices too at £20 a ticket! (Edinburgh is only a tenner. Fooking hell!) Handy for the Londoners and those that live within travel distance – the British…
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A post on the Simple Minds Facebook page confirmed there will be other signing events taking place in Glasgow and London (as well as the Toppings Edinburgh event) but the ‘cloak and dagger’ continues. Now, for me, I don’t give a flying hoot about attending any of these signings but I know a number of…
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UPDATE 19/09/2025: Thanks to Scott for the heads up on the change of date to the event. It’s now taking place (at least for now!) on Monday 20 October at a different venue. If memory serves me well, it’s the same venue where Graeme Thomson was in conversation with Bruce Findlay back in August 2022….
News of the release date of the Jim Kerr/Charlie Burchill memoir (which can fall under the genre of “creative non-fiction”) is Thursday 2 October 2025. At least that is the date given on Amazon for its release. More details can be seen HERE on the tax-evading Bezos-founded book shop. It is an interesting title; named…
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I don’t know why I have it stuck in my head as a Charlie Burchill song, but I just do. And by a Charlie song, I mean it being a song about Charlie.I don’t know where I have got that implanted in my head. It must have been something Jim had said when talking about…
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A song that makes you want to fall in love – Sexy AF! Jim. This song…
Having listened to the Kyle Meredith interview with Jim…I need to repost this. Goddamn you WordPress! Why do you only allow a single reblog of a post?! Because I already reblogged this lalte last year, I can’t reblogged it again to show up in that way… So here is a link to my thoughts on…
Damn you, Kyle! Lol Oh well, you’ll do a much better job than I ever could anyways. Best to leave it to the pros, hah? Anyway, I’m off to listen to it. Was too excited to share it first before even listening to it.
A rare beast in the Simple Minds canon, in that there is almost no musical intro before Jim starts to sing. (As far as the version on Our Secrets Are The Same goes. More on that later…) “I’ll hurt you if you say I did”. (ie: if you wish it to be, it’ll come to…
Of the more “modern” Simple Minds albums, this one really does come around for regular play from me. I get something from EVERY track on this album. The beauty I find most beguiling with Simple Minds is this ability to shine a light out from the darkness. They are not afraid to step into the…