May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….
Kerr talks Bellahouston Park, biggest gig highlight and life in Sicily. (Click to view video on home page.)
The promotional hob-nobbing that Jim and Charlie (and at times the rest of the band too) have done over the past couple of weeks to plug Direction Of The Heart has been pretty unreal. I don’t recall such a swell of promotional schmoozing like this for Walk Between Worlds. There are firsts on the cards…
I enjoyed this short interview Jim had with Jacqui Neal, and her use of the term “hopeful melancholy” – that’s the phrase! Wow! The interview is short and sweet. Enjoy!
The top-end pro electro kit – offering the best of both worlds with the snare and toms as shell pads providing an acoustic feel. Enjoy Cherisse’s promo videos for Yamaha below.
Yesterday four arrived and then today, another four! The first one is another from the photoshoot at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, and the next is one from the day before the gig, taken on June 8th, 1989. So I kind of now have a complete set of photos of the Street Fighting Years gig…
Some new arrivals for this Kerrsday. The first three are all promo photos taken of Jim inside the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. The black and white photo has a newspaper headline attached to it on the back that translates in English as saying, “Jim Kerr in Simple Minds visited Stockholm Stadium on Saturday, where the…
Sir, in phone conversation with Ewen Cameron on his Breakfast show this morning. Will there be a tour of Scotland next year? A phrase about the pope and some bears springs to mind…
Jim with New York station Q104.3’s DJ Jonathan Clarke