May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I do like to listen to various things at night. A radio comedy of varying types, usually the Friday Night comedy podcast (which for the past six weeks has been Dead Ringers – so will assume we must be back to a series of The Now Show) and repeats of Cabin Pressure…audio books, read out…
It’s the summer of 1978. Simple Minds have been alive and kicking for several months. Jim Kerr and David Henderson (sometimes with Graffiti record store manager Scott MacArthur in tow), during days between Simple Minds’ weekly residency at the Mars Bar, go knocking on doors trying to drum up record company interest, handing over a…
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I had the privilege to conduct my first ever professional interview for this blog with Simple Minds’ (and indeed Johnny And The Self Abusers) original lighting technician, Jaine Henderson. Upon gathering my notes to compile the transcript from the interview, what became clear to me was, despite my wanting to talk to Jaine about her…
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In an exercise in injecting some life into this blog, I thought I would share a scan of the booklet that s inside the Once Upon A Time box set. It’ll be broken up into two parts. Here’s part one.
Part one of a final selection of Dublin pics. I loved this “nattering ladies” sculpture. Of course, I had to join them in their conversation… The food there was delicious. Anyone care for a warm chocolate brownie and a dollop of cream? And this was in the cafe we had the brownie in. I little…
Huge thanks to Stuart McKay for the permission to share these amazing pictures he took from last night’s SM gig in Perth. More information on Stuart’s fantastic photography can be found here – Stuart McKay Photography You can also find Stuart on Instagram @mckaysenberg PLEASE DO NOT TAKE COPIES OF THESE PHOTOS – PLEASE SEEK…
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I had a brain wave today! I have always been scared to share my Hunter And The Hunted art piece as I just took the “Kyoto in the snow” scene from a pic on the web…and then edited the picture of Jim on the cover of Melody Maker, with him standing side profile in front…
Simple Minds unofficial Tour Program from 1986. I’d read somewhere that, for a bootleg bit of merch, this was quite good quality. Hmmm. It’s just full of clippings from music mags and stuff. I spent nearly £15 on this on eBay! If I’d known what it actually was like, I wouldn’t have bothered. But anyway…here’s…
Haven’t really shared many photos of my SM hoard of goodies I picked up last week. Here is part one of the 7″ single swag – 41 of them in all! Some are copies of the same single, but sourced from a diff. country or have some other kind of desirable/rarity attached to them, so…