May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
There’s a break for me now in the gigs I have coming up. I’ll be in Edinburgh at the end of the month for my birthday treat of seeing a touring production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast – making it my sixth time seeing the show and the first time seeing it since the…
Since I booked the gigs last night, I had in my head that I had 8 SM gigs booked for next year, convinced I had (without really thinking in those terms to begin with) fallen one short of this magical 9 figure I’d fallen upon these past couple of years. But…obviously I was neglecting to…
It’s a bit more spaced out than 2017 and the Acoustic tour. A little bit more like the stop-start of last year’s gigs. So…on the menu we have… Copenhagen (and OMG I can take in some Hans Christian Andersen history too!) Paris (the venue is a stunning building right on the Seine…I mean…IN THE MIDDLE…
Sophia Deboick writing in The New European, theorising on Jim Morrison’s final weeks and days lived in Paris – also a piece on partner and muse, Pamela Courson. **NB: The final sentence on the main article appears to get cut off. This is not of my doing, but how the article was printed.**
Oh, how I would hope, pray, dream…wish my goddamn bloody life away to be this privileged. It’s all it will ever be for me, I’m sure. It’s EVERY fan’s wish, but so few, a FORTUNATE few get to experience it. I can’t help but be at least a light shade of green looking at your…
Just over a year since the last Acoustic gig, tonight in Paris, Simple Minds Ltd Ed (ie: Jim, Charlie, Cherisse and Sarah) played an acoustic set at a secret location (La Reservoir) to a select group of fans. Lucky people they were! The gig was aired live on French radio station Oui FM. The set…
Sir, in Paris today, be like…
I might have been closer…but my phone is pretty crud. This footage is fab. Oh…it’s a loooong wait until May…