May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I have the services of a videographer at my disposal. I have had a storyboard of this song in my head for at least 30 years. The oppotunity to just pitch it would be awesome! But, then I’d shit myself if it actually GOT commisioned (doubt that would happen, but who knows?)! Trying to make…
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Well, because there was a mention of “The Boots” last night on the SMO wall, I HAD to look at all the references to The Boots I had here…just to confirm to myself they WERE black, of course. Anyway…as you may know, he wears The Boots on their first Top Of The Tops appearance back in 1982….
That somewhere near his lovely prized signed picture of arguably the greatest sportsman ever to have lived is my Hunter And The Hunted digital art piece…and even possibly the Somebody Up There Likes You/Waterfront piece. That notion…just…blows me away. And I’m not trying to make this about me, or trying to detract, or have ego…far…
Brilliantly recorded gig from the New Gold Dream tour…
If you happen to be a first time visitor to the blog, you may be unaware that I have a particular fetish liking for Sir Kerr’s left ear. When I had a Tumblr blog, I ran a secondary blog called “Jim Kerr’s Left Ear Appreciation Page”. It had a few followers. Lol. A few…around 15 at…
Well, with it being a bank holiday yesterday, I forgot to do my weekly Simple Minds musical highlight, so for this week it’s Minds Music Monday Tuesday. ANY DAY OF THE WEEK, if a TARDIS was available, this would probably be the first gig I’d go to.
The first collaboration between Prip & Birdy, brought together by Jim mentioning there had not been a Glasgow reggae album recorded (that he was aware, anyway) in amongst those Ivor Novello interviews I shared yesterday. My friend Yvonne came up with fab words based on Althea and Donna’s hit Uptown Top Ranking and I asked…
The dancing comment cracked me up! Lol. Does he REALLY think we think it’s THAT good? Lol. Has he seen this blog? God love him!
Only one show left now!!! Waaaaah!! I feel like I get to spend an hour just hanging out with him, playing music each week. It’s such an awesome feeling. And I would give ANYTHING for it to be a REAL LIFE experience…but, if it can only just be via radio waves…long may it continue. I…
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Well, the reading of the manuscript by a lady in French is the first indicator that something about this song is going to be a little “left field” and wonderfully avant garde. Not to mention the rather unsettling and creepy sounding reversed words at the very intro of the song. It was only VERY recently…