May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
My blog? Don’t ask! Please just bear with me a while as I try and sort it out. Yes…it is going through a complete shake-up now. I guess after 8 years of it looking like it does, it was inevitable it had to go through an overhaul. That brings out the absolute worst kind of…
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It’s a good chunk of an interview and Jim and Charlie were on great form. I particularly loved Jim’s tale of the time Charlie cut open his pinky finger in 1981, just prior to them touring Australia for the first time. Just the kind of story I was hoping for from Jim at the Paris…
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Check ’em out! Geez-o. Pair of neds. (To quote Frank Gallagher when I had a play about with him once. He shared a photo of himself posed with Jim and Charlie a few years back. I asked him who he was posing with in said photo – obviously knowing who they were. Frank’s response? “Couple…
I have been concentrating on getting my blog tidied up and streamlined. Yesterday the very hefty outlay for the blog was paid. It was also more expensive than I had anticipated so it really brought me down. As I said in a recent post, I am trying to migrate my site to somewhere else but…
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Oh, such great timing. Literally on the eve of me having to fork out another £250+ in making sure this blog keeps on running….erm, thanks guys! Lol I went and looked at the info for the Hydro in the hope that I would at least be able to see a floor plan of it and…
My blog is up for renewal in a few days and I am trying to get a new system sorted with it. I’m sorting out a new storage host and this might mean a little bit of sketchy availability of the blog in the interim. I’m trying to minimise the effects of the transition as…
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And the most astonishing places you find them in. If you go to my University & Unicorns blog (direct link to the post can be clicked to HERE) you can read all about exactly where I found this treasure trove of old music magazines and the potential wealth of Simple Minds content to be unearthed…
While my ideas for this blog seem to be a well that’s drying up, in the meantime it feels as if my blog is being ‘mined’ for ideas and inspiration for the SM social media – which is a bloody nice thing if so. I honestly don’t mind. The things may as well be of…
And so I wrote about it some more…. You can read about the significance of this photo in relation to “Special View” on my University & Unicorns blog HERE – there is a tenuous link to Simple Minds with it all…but this blog didn’t feel the right place to actually share it. I’m hoping it…
Fortune smiled wide last night in Glasgow, for last week it had been announced on Hamish Hawk’s social media platforms that he and his band would be playing a small set in George Square as part of the musical entertainment laid on during the UCI World Cycling Championships that are currently taking place within the…
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