May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have to prefix this by saying…rather sadly now, this is my last Simple Minds gig for the foreseeable future. There are some Grandslams left, of course…Swindon, Ardingly and Taunton next weekend, and Inverness and Dundee the following weekend…then off they go to Mexico, the USA and Canada. Exciting times ahead for the band. But…
Jim was on Radio 4 this morning as part of the guests on Saturday Live. I’ve edited a copy for the blog for permanency and for overseas listeners to enjoy. Listen below…
One last clip of him from Green Man on Saturday night. Can’t wait until the October gigs! Now, back to it being a Simple Minds blog…
I had to post this on SMO FB (the pic). Back in June at the Rip It Up exhibition in Edinburgh, I sssooooo wanted to sneak a pic of this neon sign, but I didn’t dare! It just instantly made me think of Jim and my silly fetish…and his interview with Georgey Spanswick in which…
simpleminds.org – aka Dream Giver Redux – has been my ABSOLUTE Simple Minds bible for these past four years. Esp. in the early days of my fandom. Daily visits…devouring voraciously the wealth of information on the site. It was utterly invaluable and helped me learn so much about the history of the band and a…
Gwenda Fox has had me smiling all afternoon with this. This is what these things really SHOULD be called…esp. if you were doing them in Oz in the height of summer…let’s face it! Lol. It wouldn’t take much to get someone giddy… ??? (This was Gwenda’s comment to Jim’s post this morning about Ross Stapleton…
A great location for an outdoor venue…right in the heart of the city centre. It was one of the main reasons I chose to go to Leeds when tossing up which of these Grandslam gigs to go to back in the early spring. Leeds would be fairly cheap and hassle free for me to get…
I am ssooo tired from last night. A full review will be on the blog tomorrow, but for now, here are a few pics and a video of Someone Somewhere In Summertime. Enjoy!
I could start with the whole personal account with the logistics of getting to the gig, etc…but it is actually too horrendous to go over it all. Put it this way…all the trepidation I was feeling about going was being made manifest. So…let’s skip all that. I met up with Ally Scott and her husband…
Cherisse in Granada, guitar shopping with Charlie Burchill. Enjoy!