May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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I am a week ahead in my study. A trip to Newcastle is imminent, and so in the lull I am allowing myself time to at least BEGIN to read The Glesga Twins story. I’m a few chapters in – yes, some squares on my ‘Kerr’s repetitive anecdotes’ bingo card have been dabbed. Yet, somehow…
This blog is growing seriously stagnant. As well as that, with the book taking up much of my creative writing time I’ve hardly done any other writing. I need to actively get back on the saddle to get my mind thinking about the avenues of writing that I will be getting involved in – namely…
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Just a dud day off and so wanted to waffle to somehow feel ‘productive’ whilst not feeling able to do much else… (it was recorded on my iPad rather than my phone so sorry for the shifting eyes).
Currently reading Dear Green Place by Archie Hind – and loving it. These passages speaking to me just now as I read them (and what’s between the highlighted passages too).
Yesterday was the first tuition I’ve had in two months. Gareth was great. Started me back right from scratch, really. We went right back to basics. We worked on stick grip, rudiments, grooves and fills. I can’t really talk a lot about it…not really going into much detail. And it felt a lot to take…
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The first instalment of the BBC Radio 4 abridged telling of the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
After a long gap. Sir gave me a prod a couple of weeks back. I’m on it, dear Sir. This is where I’m at 🙂