Another Day, Another Interview
Jim talks to Arroe Collins about the new album, Direction Of The Heart. Click to read more and listen to the interview…
Tag: simple minds
Podcast-aholic – My Current List Of Regular Podcasts
I love a podcast and recently I have been going through quite a heavy spell of podcast listening. There are some long regulars like The Archers – I know! Had you told me when I first moved to the UK and learned about The Archers that I’d start listening to it several years later and…
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The Blues Over Brown
Sarah Brown has a new single out from her superb ‘….Sings Mahalia Jackson’ album. The track is called Didn’t It Rain and it is my favourite track off the album. Next Monday I fly down to London to see Sarah play the iconic jazz venue in Soho, Ronnie Scott’s. The gig is a sellout and…
Bridges Burned?
I think it probably has happened. I had a MASSIVE wobble and, well….it’s probably all too late and…. Life moves on, as a (mostly) wise man once said. A person who, I believe, has made plenty of mistakes also. But I get that I have become massively wearing and have always invested too much in…
Simple Minds Feature In Electronic Sound Magazine
Simple Minds are the main feature in the latest issue of ES. Click to read more…
The Lynn Lester Interview (Working Class To World Class)
Firstly, can I just say that title implies that the working class have to strive to be world class. Like…it just compounds the percieved “working class” stigma to me. But, hey, that’s probably just me. I digress. I guess it could have had a worse title like, say, “Working Class Made Good” or something. I…
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Currently Kerr-tailed
I am 825 words into a ROUGH draft 1200 essay that’s due on Thursday morning. I’m not feeling confident about this one. I’m not sure I have actually felt confident over any of them! (I’m trying to keep my score of 80 for my eTMA – ie: end-of-module Tutor Marked Assignment – in the forefront…
Direction > of > the > Heart – Two Weeks On
I’ll be honest here and say that these days I don’t really listen to too much music at all. I’m lucky if I play maybe two whole songs in a day. That’s just how it’s been for the past….18 months or so? I think the pandemic and lockdown had the completely reverse affect on me…
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Twenty Questions (and Sad Answers)
I’m avoiding uni study today. In the current yo-yo of my state of being, having somehow been “up and confident” earlier in the day yesterday, I took a dive last night. And all the feelings of ineptitude and uselessness come flooding in. I’m still really angry with myself that I squandered yet ANOTHER opportunity to…
Is The End Really In Sight?
Today, much like every other day, I should be studying. But today I feel a particular sense of melancholy and foreboding. I *should* feel on a high, because last night Simple Minds actually, FINALLY, debuted on ‘Later…with Jools Holland.’ They were incredible. Vision Thing sounded AMAZING. I actually shouted out when they finished “THAT’S THE…