May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
aboutmusiic: Heute gab es die ersten Bands für das Zermatt Unplugged 2016. Wir finden das Line Up klingt wieder sehr interessant! Es werden einige internationale Größen am Start sein. Stattfinden wird das Zermatt Unplugged vom 5. bis zum 9.April. Mit dabei sind unter anderem: James Morrison Juanes Simple Minds Chris Cornell Angus & Julia Stone…
Have never seen this bit of interview until just now. He is wonderfully animated. Wonderful bit of Glastaliano at the beginning :-))) And the bit about his mum at the end :-(( Funny…but sad, given what happens just over a year later :-((( (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
A wonderfully political snapshot of Eastern Europe of the late 1970s. If you think Simple Minds only became political in the mid to late 80s…listen to this and you know you’re mistaken. I know I go on about Jim’s songwriting, but I do for a reason, it’s bloody good!! His words are just always so…
Classic Pop magazine feature of Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time album, newly re-issued as a super deluxe box set package.
“The Kerr-sed”? Yes. That’s kinda how I feel. But I love it! I love him. If you’d said to me that wanting to explore Simple Minds’ music would result in me having such a HUGE obsession and crush…on Jim Kerr, I’d have thought you’d need psychiatric help! Lol Well, that’s going a bit far…but I…
Lol. Seriously…I could not love this man any more if I tried. Thanks to the time diff. my reply came a little too late for a response, yet…anyway. But, if he DOES enter the comedy circuit, he might need to consider a name change… A Jim Kerr AND a Jimmy Carr out on the circuit…
Quick but fun interview with Jim on Steve Wright in the Afternoon on Radio 2 today (Dec 8th). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The picture is watermarked, but I had to share it. I’d never seen it before until today. Jim and Chrissie … shortly after their marriage, I’m assuming. They both look so happy. (Throws retrospective deadly daggers at Chrissie. Lol)
Interview with Jim on Absolute Radio, Sunday, December 6th, 2015. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
“There was a sense of hope and I think that’s what was important. Someone said to me, ‘How can you have gold and glitter and brilliant days and sort of things?’. I’m not … When I write, I don’t have the arrogance to think I’m some spokesman, or have answers to anyone’s problems. A lot of…