May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
What a beautiful thing! A comment from a SM fan that I don’t know on SMOG in regards to a post I put up of the “the light shines brightest in the darkest places” fan art. Restores my faith in humanity. Just when you feel the world is at its worst – there are still…
This amazing young man, Dan Crouch, has been sharing some piano solo covers of Simple Minds songs on the SM Official Group page. He had done fabulous covers of Hunter And The Hunted and most recently The American. And because he had covered The American it had me thinking that maybe he would be willing…
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Not always. Not often at all, really. It just brings home to me the years missed. And…Jim felt like the glue that bonded the fanbase together. We talk with each other THROUGH him, so to speak. I miss that part of the interactivity soo much! That he was the catalyst. I see little point in…
I didn’t see the point of SMOG. I mean…the posting thing? I’m not concerned for myself. I don’t feel I have anything much to this group to contribute to be honest. I tend not to with any of the SM groups. Not posting to them myself anyway. Not very often. But I comment on posts…
Well maybe SMOG will get better. But I fear it’ll be VERY selective and VERY exclusive. And…I have no memories from a lifetime ago…nothing of any significance to contribute so I’ll keep schtum. My memories will probably just be shared here on the blog. This post from Carol Loudon deserved its posting to SMOG. It’s…
Well, what the Simple Minds fandom really needed was yet ANOTHER Facebook group. Sigh. I’m already in f*** knows how many. But the latest is “official”. Excuse my initial cynicism but…what’s the objective? Simple Minds Official for band news only? Jim posts there. Fuck all the wonderful interactivity that used to happen? No more visitor…