May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
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.
I am a week ahead in my study. A trip to Newcastle is imminent, and so in the lull I am allowing myself time to at least BEGIN to read The Glesga Twins story. I’m a few chapters in – yes, some squares on my ‘Kerr’s repetitive anecdotes’ bingo card have been dabbed. Yet, somehow…
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….
I know that these days this blog is not exactly a hive of activity, particularly on the Simple Minds front currently as there isn’t much to report when it comes to the band, but also over the past 12-18 months my fandom has waned and I had also been writing my book (yeah, that still…
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Well, at least ONE Gorbals boy anyway (not sure of Burchill’s origins before his family were rehomed at Toryglen – guess I’ll find out soon enough, if such info is revealed in the book?). What am I on about? The news today that the run of Kerr/Burchill book launch dooberries is happening at the recently…
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In case you missed it, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt (aka The Rockonteurs) spoke with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill about their forthcoming (released on 2 October) memoir Our Secrets are the Same. Strap in, it’s just over an hour long! You can listen to the episode of the Rockonteurs podcast via the Spotify link…
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