May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
While my ideas for this blog seem to be a well that’s drying up, in the meantime it feels as if my blog is being ‘mined’ for ideas and inspiration for the SM social media – which is a bloody nice thing if so. I honestly don’t mind. The things may as well be of…
I’m in “miss you” mode. I’m not going to say anything else. I’m already disgusted with myself as is! Fuck feelings!
That sentence being, “Well, I might make it a poster on my studio wall also!”. I can’t tell you what that sentence did to me! Just waking up at my mum’s house and seeing the post and the way my heart pounded away. Silly really. It had been a long time since something had made…
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In the final MMM before Christmas I didn’t really know what song I was going to choose. So much so that I started to look through the list of commercially released songs on Dream Giver Redux for some inspiration, and what I thought about doing initially was finding a song from more recent years to…
Listening to Bjork’s Hyper-Ballad while choosing this. Connection? No idea. But there is a beautiful melancholy to Hyper-Ballad that has me putting it on repeat.
Priptona Art images celebrating St Andrew’s Day viewable in the post. Click to see…
I think I’ve come to understand one of the main reasons why I love Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call so much. Firstly, musically, it just progresses so beautifully. There is that undercurrent connective theme of travel, linked by the musical stamps of Derek Forbes’s fabulous bass lines, Mick MacNeil’s synth riffs and melodies and those…
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But over seven years of producing the art though. Writing and study have taken over in recent months. I’m not sure when I last made anything. It has always been my own “Act Of Love”. The “art” always expressed the things that I wanted to say when words failed me. Mostly “I love you, Jim”…
The weather over the weekend has been glorious and continues to be wonderfully sunny, if not still a wee bit cold. I am looking forward to warmer days. The sun has been lovely and thank god that, it least as hours of sun is concerned, spring has sprung. Those rays just need to be a…
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This song has a similar personal feeling for me than Spaceface does. Almost like they fit hand in glove. Even with the similarities in title – Space/Spaceface. There’s also a line within Wonderful In Young Life that fits in with the theme that I find particularly poignant. “Surviving these changes in paces and faces in…