May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Email confirmation of my subscription to Classic Pop…at last! And just in the nick of time…my first issue will be February, 2018…with inside (hopefully!), a big old Simple Minds Walk Between Worlds feature. I do hope so! Cannot wait!
The Jimbo Crimbo celebrations continue at Casa Read with…ESSENTIAL viewing 😉
The most venomous version of King Is White I’d ever heard Jim sing…not as angry sounding in his delivery as some of the earlier versions and he drops the “take/taking no prisoners” line – which is a big shame…but in the second refrain of the chorus he adds a “hang ’em up / sling ’em…
Although this is essentially a blog from a personal angle, and not meant to be seen as a professionally run Simple Minds blog…by ANY means, I am humbled and somewhat dumbstruck that I have a readership and visitors to this site. To those who subscribe, and to those who visit, I wish you all a…
I LITERALLY WANT TO CRY! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS AFTER ALL THIS TIME! AND…I COULD HAVE HAD A COPY. FUCK YOU RARE RECORDS FOR GETTING MY COPY LOST IN THE POST (SUPPOSEDLY!) AND THAT PHOTO IN THE SPREAD IS SSOOOOOO A VIRGINIA TURBETT…I WILL PUT MY HOUSE ON IT (I am sssssoooooo asking…
Well…last Christmas it was the dream of being hugged by Jim on the Renfrew ferry in 1983 that became manifest and real at Bridlington in May. So…what do I possibly ask Santa for THIS year? More of the same? Geez, I wouldn’t say no! Perhaps MUCH more of the same? As in…more time with him…?…
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I was trying to find this interview yesterday…just, because it had been quite a while since I viewed it, and it rarely comes up. Oh…but…wow…how timely the subject matter with which The Boy speaks! Hmmmm. This one would have the dissenters raving, methinks…. That end bit? Oh, you black-hearted boy. Lol. Fuck that “happily ever…
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I really, REALLY want to do this! And…oh, how I wish I could. This shirt is a ONE-OFF for a fan that approached me and asked if I could design a shirt with this imagery. I KNOW it is copyright…but it is ONE SHIRT for ONE PERSON only! I have NOT sold it for profit!…
Seen in a monthly food magazine as a Christmas present suggestion. Well, I just *had* to, right? Lol (for Jim…not me)
Alamy sent three suggestions on surviving Christmas…but I think I have my own three ideas… 1) Ogle pictures of Jim 2) Listen to Simple Minds’ music 3) Repeat number one (failing that…trawl YouTube for vids) Merry Christmas and Jimble Bells! ?