May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yours truly! It was wonderful to be invited on to In Your Room to talk to Mick, Derek and Brian about my book: Simple Minds Song by Song and to also ask them questions about certain songs from the back catalogue. We had great fun. I really hope you enjoy watching.
It was an Instagram story on Graeme Thomson’s account that first made me aware of the existence of Orwell. He had been sent a vinyl copy of Simple Minded, with its wonderfully stylised artwork – a subtle but very obvious homage to the Sons and Fascination album cover. I was impressed by its look and…
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“So when I thought Charlie’s guitar in ‘Angel’ sounded like church bells…” – writes Adam Sweeting, having just been given an explanation by Jim of the ideas behind the song. You can read a full extract of that below. I’d be intrigued to know what the book of short stories was. I thought for a…
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I’m just going to show my dedication here…(and this has been while going through a period of not listening to you as much as I normally do! Just…bear that one in mind!)
Seeing Out The Angel. It’s shit. Worked on it forever. Embrace that I suck. You know what I am best at? FUCK ALL. I am great at being absolutely great at NOTHING. Oh, and I have the AUDACITY to call this “art”. Lol. Fuck me. What a fucking moron.
In praise and gratitude for today’s birthday boy.
I’m in an instrumental mood today…
And, just on the odd occasion…I really do…amaze myself… A redo for Seeing Out The Angel. It couldn’t be any different from the original! WOW!
Starting to think about getting inked up again. Something like this on my left forearm would be awesome! I would probably have the waves smaller, and have the inks more colourful (not just shades of blue) to reflect the lyrics. I really want to get the lyrics tattooed, for sure. A picture accompanying them would…