May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Is actually not one of the tracks I would have thought of for the recent topic on the Billy Sloan Show (re: post title). I no longer tune in to the show but I still follow the Facebook posts because I still like to see what the topic will be for each week’s show. Last…
Thank you for all the entries received for the giveaway for a copy of Lee Stuart Evans’ fabulous book Pleasantly Disturbed. The correct answer to the question was, of course, Life in a Day. Congratulations to Valeria who, as the first name drawn form the correct entries, has won herself a copy of the book….
I don’t want you to get the wrong impression from the book’s title. It’s not all about Simple Minds! Neither is it completely devoid of Simple Minds content. One check at the number of the times Jim Kerr is mentioned within its pages will attest to the liberal smattering Simple Minds appears throughout. The novel’s…
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This is the kind of content that was needed for Everything Is Possible. Just so, maybe, it felt a little less Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill centric. I still naively want to believe that when they started out, they were a creative unit, rather than Batman and Robin and whoever else they thought fitted in…
One of the early sought-after ‘wants’ on my list of SM memorabilia was to secure myself a copy of the Early Years CD. I didn’t go all-out to secure a copy. Thankfully there were uploads to YouTube of the individual tracks that I could listen to. I desired a copy simply for its collectability. I…
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With Halloween on Saturday, there was only one song left in the Halloween countdown to choose. The epic, the immense and majestic – Pleasantly Disturbed! Enjoy!
I’m reckoning that I work in chronological order. Choose absolute favourite tracks from each album then once they are all collated, streamline and narrow down using certain other criteria until only 50 remain. These start the long list. My “must haves” from Life In A Day.
Michelle took these ones of me with “The Boys/Mr Beautiful Sir KerrLaird Dash Fandango aka Jim” ??? The first one in B&W makes me look like I’m just…standing at the shrine. Lol
A fun afternoon in sunny Glesga.
A new release by Hanging Around Books sees images taken in 1978 by Laurie Evans feature in the book. I feel ssooo bad as I made the horrendous assumption that Laurie is a man! My apologies, Laurie. I’ve been waiting a while on this one as I had contacted Laurie some time back from seeing…
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