May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It is all the whole reason I ever did them. Oh, yes…I would love more than anything in the world for it to be something I can do professionally and make a living from…but that came later, that thinking and wish – once having realised I may actually be half decent at SOMETHING in my…
Jim Kerr is a man who has stood the test of time in the music industry. As the frontman of Simple Minds they’ve just released a new single and album. He was happy to join Nick to talk about his career and what inspires him now. — Read on omny.fm/shows/the-daily-drive/jim-kerr-and-simple-minds/
Today was the unveiling of the David Bowie statue/sculpture within Aylesbury town centre. In honour of it taking place, at least for one day, the town altered its name…albeit unofficially, to Aylesbowie. If I was to take a stab at crowd numbers, I’d say a couple thousand people were there. I did my bit to…
We spoke with Jim Kerr about the mystery of thermostats, why success may be a subjective concept, how inventing yourself is the ultimate freedom and why spiritual texts teach us to deny rather than embrace mainstream society. — Read on northoftheinternet.com/jim-kerr/ A fabulously refreshing and thought-provoking interview. Enjoy
Yep…we only ever turn up to Simple Minds gigs to see the 30 second highlight of Jim’s Dad Dance at the end. “Hold me closer, Daddy Dancer”… “Heaven it bumps, heaven it grinds”
The original feature can be viewed here, but with the magic of Google Translate, here’s the English transcript…complete with the questions asked and answered by Jim. Enjoy! Simple Minds is not only current with its eighteenth full-length Walk Between Worlds. They also celebrate the impressive forty years in the industry. Zero had a long and…
This time, as about as cleaner/clearer copy of the 1983 Bologna gig as you’re ever gonna get. No Celebrate, sadly…but pretty much all of New Gold Dream bar Somebody Up There Likes You and King Is White And In The crowd (geez, Jim loved a long song title back then! Lol). I was hoping to…
This is now TWO journos who got to hang out with them around Glasgow, that I know of. Oh, dream, dream, dream. My three minutes at the WBW album signing was…a “blink and miss it” haze…even WITH the sherbet straws footage. Lol. (Cringe-tastic!) Anyway…the new A3 scanner means I can scan double pages! Hell yes!…
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How does one go about reviewing something they have very little knowledge of? Well, research, for one helps. But it would feel a cheat to do that…so I will review it with a novice approach. We queued for an hour. Quite WHY we queued, I’m unsure. Just, well, because the sign was there, a guy…
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