May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I don’t even know where to start with this one, I honestly don’t. It might be a little short and sweet because otherwise I’ll be typing out a 3,000 word post if I try and put it all in! So much happened last night. All the periphery stuff pre and post gig. Let’s just make…
While the Antipodes is going nuts for some band or other hailing from Glasgow, it was time for me to put my gladrags on (well, suitable garb, at least) and head to Glasgow’s East End to the iconic Barras for what promised to be a (if not THE) highlight of 2024 and watch the New…
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If you know me then you will know that I have said MANY times that I am a very slow reader. There have been very few exceptions where I am able to ramp up the pace of my reading to such a degree that I am able to devour a book in less than a…
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New Gold Dream era Smash Hits reviews. Singles: Promised You A Miracle (reviewed by Neil Tennant, no less!) and Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) reviewed, plus Album: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) reviewed by David Hepworth, receiving 8/10.
Sparkle In The Rain era reviews in Smash Hits magazine through 1984. Waterfront achieved the high praise of “single of the fortnight”. Ooh!!
Two reviews of Real To Real Cacophony by Red Starr in Smash Hits magazine, late 1979. The first one (on blue page) give a somewhat disparaging but ultimately positive review and a rating of 8/10. The second review betrays the dismissive tone of the first and is utterly glowing and is rate 9.5/10!! I don’t…
Will have lots of photos and some vid footage to share later. Simple Minds were SSSOOO amazing! Never wanted the night to end! And if it were even POSSIBLE for me to love Jim Kerr any more than I do, well… He is beyond lovely!! The version of Don’t You seemed to go on FOREVER…by…
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As the new CD boxset (and other various formats of release) of Sparkle In The Rain is now imminent, I thought it apt to share a wonderful, positive gig review of the period (no date on the piece, but with the help of the Dream Giver Redux site, I’m guessing it was 2nd March, 1984).After…
Ouch!! Wow! What a scathing gig review. Tommy Udo obviously knows *nothing* about what fantastic music is! How he ever got to be a music journalist escapes me! Still, he does admit to being in a minority of one because – as he puts it – “the audience went apeshit throughout the set”. Damn right…
A rather scathing review of Sparkle In The Rain from back in the day. Still, the guys get the last laugh, as it becomes their first UK Number One album. Transcript of article: All that glitters… Simple Minds‘Sparkle In The Rain’(Virgin V2300)** “We will rock you little chil’ ”. No, it’s not a line from…
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