Piss On It!
I couldn’t help but think of Jim and that shark in Sydney when I saw this…
Tag: simple minds
Hmmm: One Wonders What Sir Will Do With This?
I have my popcorn to hand… UPDATE: Not much, it would seem. I feel terrible for having wanted him to be cattier than that. Lol. I dunno…been in that kinda mood the past few days. I shouldn’t want him to be a snidey bitch. It’s wrong. And just when you think it’s all over… Though,…
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I’m Not A Complicated Guy – In The First Verse…
I had never read (or even SEEN) this interview before. I’m sure he must have shared it on SMO at the time…but I was so early into my mega fandom, I no doubt overlooked it. Too busy absorbing the music and many other things about the Simple Minds world. Watching tons of early footage…as much…
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The Wee Oui Acoustic Gig
Just over a year since the last Acoustic gig, tonight in Paris, Simple Minds Ltd Ed (ie: Jim, Charlie, Cherisse and Sarah) played an acoustic set at a secret location (La Reservoir) to a select group of fans. Lucky people they were! The gig was aired live on French radio station Oui FM. The set…
The Set List Song Juggle
I had been made a bit world weary of Jim’s talk over the past few years of the “ever-changing” set list. Swapping one song over for another after a week or two in an otherwise unchanging and fixed list barely warrants that kind of bold statement. The two most recent examples I can give are…the…
Life…Imitating Art…Imitating Life
Sir, in Paris today, be like…
The Birth Of “Wan”?
Looking at eBay, I noticed this fanzine for sale (at a ridiculous price! Considering what most fanzines are like, and how they were produced). I could see that they were gracious enough to show what was inside with some low res pics (of an already poor quality printed magazine. Rare…but I would not pay £50…
Minds Music Monday – Twist/Run/Repulsion – Isolated Elements
Back nearly FOUR YEARS ago now, when I took those tentative steps into exploring the Simple Minds back catalogue and having quickly listened to Life In A Day and Real To Real Cacophony to move onto Empires And Dance and fall instantly in love…it was Twist/Run/Repulsion that was the first track I heard that absolutely…
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Review: Warm Digits (and C.A.R.) – The Pickle Factory, London – June 9th, 2018
Well, no gig night would be complete without some kind of personal crap impeding stuff. Yesterday it was the faux pas of having let the OH rope me into the idea of travelling the Tube to get to the gig and leaving the logistics to her. Now, having discussed how we were going to get…
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Magazine Clippings – 1980, 1981 – Gig Reviews, Band News and Tour And New Music Info
The first snippet is dated Dec 6th, 1980. More tour dates for SM…it’s starting to wear Brian McGee out already… Next – a review of their gig at Tiffany’s on March 1st, 1981 (printed in March 14th edition of NME). Brian’s final gig with them in Glasgow. Why they get labeled as being “pretentious” with…