May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This week has been a very good week, especially the latter half. On Wednesday the weather was pretty good so I decided to make the most of it and have a slightly early birthday day out. Em was out in the morning, needing to meet up with someone at Queen’s Park at 9.30am, so we…
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This year feels like it has been a long one. I started university back in January and I am now working through the second module of my DipHE English. There was excitement at the start of the year with some Simple Minds related releases happening. The first being from the band themselves with the release…
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Apart from one addition in Ms Sarah Brown showing as a solo artist! All the usual suspect otherwise, with possibly even more Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music than the previous couple of years. But the Minds and Bowie will ALWAYS be top! Forever. New songs making an appearance for SM. I think this may be…
The decision was made to have fish and chips at home and take a taxi to the Hydro, for the RMT decided to have a Scotland wide rail strike on the day Roxy Music were playing the OVO Hydro. Up the workers! In all honesty, I am on their side. The weather was forecast to…
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This version from Rockpalast is AWESOME…and it namechecks a Roxy Music song… and…tonight’s the night! Roxy at the Hydro! Woohooo!!! Yeah, baby!
If I can’t write it, I’ll speak it…
Next Monday evening I am off to the Hydro to see Roxy Music’s 50th Anniversary show. I have been looking forward to this for MONTHS! So…in celebration of this, here’s SM’s only cover of a Roxy song. Goddamn I wish they’d picked something else! But, I guess Jim loves it. It is probably my least…
Have acquired these over the past few days and looking forward to devoting some time to them very shortly. Already have spent some time perusing the Bryan Ferry Lyrics book. I didn’t realise there was a foreword in it and a short piece by Bryan himself. Mother Of Pearl has been a firm favourite since…
“It’s been a long time coming”, as Sam Cooke sang, “but a change is gonna come.” The time has come for Sarah Brown. Long established as a backing vocalist for a number of world renowned musical artists including; Stevie Wonder, George Michael, Bryan Ferry and Duran Duran, Sarah is currently on tour with Simple Minds….
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Get a load of this!!! Bryan Ferry, Andy MacKay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson all on the one stage again for a Roxy 50th tour – playing the Hydro on Oct 10th (happy early birthday present to me!)! *SCREAMS girly squeal* IT IS OAN!!! I AM TOO FRIGGING EXCITED! Never thought I’d ever get to…