May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
What in the Gregory Peck?!! There is a Top 100 Musician Biographies category on Amazon and MY BOOK is currently sitting at number fifty-two on this list. Yesterday it was at 91 and this morning I thought I’d have a look to see if it had moved position. It wasn’t at 91 and I thought…
It is official! My book on the entire Simple Minds music back catalogue is available for pre-order at Amazon and Waterstones in the UK, now! It’s due for release on 30 September 2026 but I am sure that if you’re able to pre-order that would help immeasurably. It still doesn’t feel real and maybe it…
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I can’t believe it’s the 10 anniversary of David Bowie’s passing tomorrow. I want to say that the decade since has been absolutely fucking crap, but it isn’t entirely true. Many good things, many wonderful things on a personal level have happened. More universally, within the world of politics especially – it has been ridiculous….
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Today I finally completed reading Our Secrets are the Same. Still those final chapters brought forth ire and consternation within me. But I think I am finally getting better at shedding it as quickly as it comes. It does me no good to hold onto it, letting it fester and gnaw away at me. I…
I think I am going to find this a hard thing to do! So I think I’ll get the easier stuff out the way first. Thinking about all of the arts and culture there are things that I don’t partake in much, if at all. I don’t watch television, so it’s going to be hard…
Read full post “The Best of 2025 – Part 1: Gig of the Year and Single of the Year” »
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 have seen news of Mick MacNeil releasing new material, something which is very welcome, and might come as some surprise to at least one former musical collaborator. With that said, it is hardly the first foray for MacNeil when it comes to musical output since he departed from Simple Minds in 1990. It made…
For shits and giggles I decided to invest a fiver to see how their “in conversation” at the British Library in London would differ from the one in Glasgow. I bought the ticket on Tuesday afternoon but didn’t get to watch it until yesterday. I have to say that compared to the one at The…
It was a busy weekend. On Saturday morning Sue arrived and during the afternoon we headed into the city to go to the Mitchell Library for an event. It was called ‘Love Letters to a Murder.’ The main aspect of it was a ‘In Conversation’ talk between the author of a fictionalised account of the…
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I am anxious, rushed, rambling, questioning – my usual scary, fucked up hot mess – but I needed to purge (and perhaps vent?) a little on the book. The first 99 pages anyway. IT’S NOT A REVIEW – it’s just my own feelings and thoughts.