May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Have been contemplating monetising my blog…just to help offset the things I do. I mean, the memorabilia I buy is not just solely for me. I buy them to scan and share (when it’s magazines, clippings and photos). Perhaps I should rethink the Etsy shop? Take away all the lyric content from the art that…
This beautiful set of photos came my way very recently, from the collection of fellow mega Minds fan, Stuart Holland. I am absolutely bowled over by them! They are an absolute new treasure. Quite possibly the most prized thing in my ever expanding Simple Minds memorabilia collection. Anyone enjoying these pictures – I do ask…
Not sure on the details of this clip…would seem to date, by Jim’s clothing, style, hair cut, etc, to be around 2005. It’s a truncated version…but I like it. Sir is being quite emotive…
A rare beast in the Simple Minds canon, in that there is almost no musical intro before Jim starts to sing. (As far as the version on Our Secrets Are The Same goes. More on that later…) “I’ll hurt you if you say I did”. (ie: if you wish it to be, it’ll come to…
Today, my heart just wasn’t in doing a Simple Minds song. It is a rare day indeed when that happens. I even tried not doing a lyric piece, but one of my “Why I Love” write ups instead…and it lead nowhere. But…this is how it would feel, if I really *could* make a success of…
Michael Jackson’s pubes, more like! Hiding under an alias as you OBVIOUSLY have no taste! Two of the best songs of 1983…and I say this NOT as the Minds fan I am today…but as that 13 year old back in Oz who heard the song on the radio, conjured up such stark imagery with it,…
And can I please have a full size copy of that picture of Jim, please? Beautiful! Also details of the release of Waterfront.
Review of the U2/SimpleMinds/Big Country/Eurythmics mega gig at Phoenix Park, Dublin on August 14th, 1983. A shame the second page (and pic of Jim) is black and white. Never mind. Again, many thanks to shanemarais.net for the magazine scans.
Well, if you can’t find someone to hug…hug yourself. He likes a hug, does our Jim (he’s pretty good at them too).
I don’t know why I decided to redo it. Jim liked the first one…I don’t think I’ve ever redone one that he liked…other than Hunter And The Hunted…but that was due to the guilt of using copyright images…and…well, the original one is beautiful. Experimentation I suppose was at the heart of it. I really do…
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