May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Please, Jim! If you EVER visit this godforsaken blog! Please! Just keep it in! For want of ever being able to hear Wonderful In Young Life or Boys From Brazil being played….or even Seeing Out The Angel for that matter. You absolutely blew me away playing This Earth That You Walk Upon back in February….
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I am KICKING myself that I forgot to go and have a look at this when I was in Edinburgh on Thursday! I had read about it a couple of weeks back, and then the thing just slipped my mind :-((( Well, I DEFINITELY have to go back to Edinburgh now… View this post on…
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I am slowly building up a collection of Virginia Turbett prints, in varying ways, either via buying prints directly from Virginia herself, or by investing in a copy of a Hanging Around photo book featuring her work. Below are the latest editions… The print of Bruce will be a wondefully prized possession now the man…
I’ve had two days away as part of a whirlwind cultural/music experience in Edinburgh and Newcastle. More on last night’s Warm Digits gig to come! But first, let’s talk Rip It Up – the exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, and of the talk given by Bruce Findlay and Ian Rankin, hosted by Vic…
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Was printing a few of my pieces today for…something…and a couple went a little awry. All still perfectly good for hanging… The “star” one is just slightly not true to colour, but still looks great, and the Someone print went a tad off kilter but would no doubt be able to be straightened up in…
I wish I could…with discrection…but this is about the only way I can think of doing it…on the off chance he ever visits this sad, sad excuse of a blog and can somehow get word back to me…rather ASAP if you don’t mind, Jim. Lol You can pick two (don’t worry! Nothing will be coming…
Having just watched the second episode of Waldemar Januszczak’s three part series on American art, I had to brush upon it. I do find his documentaries fascinating. I would learn much from him if he was my art teacher. In essence…he has been for the past 12 years or so. He, Alastair Sooke, Andrew Graham-Dixon…
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Some time back, I’d read a reference to a “Joe Kerr” and I was like “Pffft! As if! His parents wouldn’t be so cruel to have a son and name him Joe!” And Jim would make references about a house of FOUR boys…and I would think “you…Paul…Mark…unless you’re counting your dad in…who’s the fourth boy?”…
I had never done anything like this before. Entered a race for charity. A 10km event. I walked it, expecting it would take me some 2 hours to get around….but I did it in 1hr 47m 26s – I might have even done quicker than it seems as I didn’t set off quickly. I was…
It seems the wrong word to use in some respects…as the way I interpret the word “mogul”, esp. when it comes to music moguls, I see types like Colonal Tom Parker, Tony Defries, Eric Hall, Don Arden, et al – larger than life types that just blag their way through stuff with brash, bolshy machismo….