May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
“There’s no place like home.” A much used quote lifted from The Wizard Of Oz. But it rings true. And it certainly seemed to have rung true on the nights of November 18th and 19th, 1982. Simple Minds had just returned to Glasgow after another whirlwind stint of touring to the far reaches of the…
Last night Spotify revealed my yearly listening stats to me. There was no real surprise to find Simple Minds at the top of the tree yet again! And that Boys From Brazil was my top track for seventh year running. All the SM tracks in my Top 5 played tracks of 2021 all came from…
Read full post “Pictorial Passion – Musical Years In Review – 2021 and 1982” »
We read what we want to read, don’t we? Even with the text there written out in black and white, we can still end up interpreting things as we want to – can’t we? It’s really great to have Jim posting daily again. I actually can’t quite believe he’s posted THREE DAYS IN A ROW…
Read full post “There’s A Minds Music Monday In There Somewhere! – Destin(ation)y Glasgow” »
I used to do this with the video blogs (aka vlogs) last year. There was a series of them and I ended up referring to them as the “Sunday Waffle” for, as the name suggests, I’d post the vlogs on a Sunday. Of course I would post other vlogs on the days inbetween too! But…
Read full post “Sunday Waffle – 28/11/2021 – Catfishing and Letting Go” »
I know that from seeing the Velvet Underground documentary my feeling on Lou Reed was left being quite….disparaging. There was little positivity to be gained from how he was portrayed in that. A remarkable writer and intellect, yes…but not a person you could imagine yourself wanting to spend much time with. Jim talking about the…
Sometimes for me the songs that should sound the easiest to decipher are the ones I struggle to gain clearly defined meaning from. This Is It is a case in point. For as clear as the lyrics are in the song, there’s enough ambiguity in the meaning for me to question whether MY interpretation of…
I don’t know how long this new idea will last, but this is the start of a new concept for a weekly post here. It’s going to be called the “Billy Breakdown” and will basically be a short (or long-ish, depending upon how much I feel needs to be discussed) discussion about the previous evening’s…
I have a bit of a mish mash of stuff to catch up with on here. Just, general music news and observations over the past few days. All to be brushed upon shortly. I’ve been delayed in getting to the topics coming up because on Sunday I was out pretty much all day with not…
Winners of the four sets of badges are: Ben Wheeler, Leslie Molieri, Duncan McDonald and Gordon Machray. Your sets will be making their way to you shortly! Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who entered. There will be more giveaways to come, including one that I am VERY, VERY excited to announce which I think will have…
“Hello, hello – is anybody home?” I’m not sure anyone is today. I feel absolutely shattered. You see, I went to Edinburgh yesterday to see my second favourite band in the entire universe. It was a long way to go for what was barely a 30 minute set, but it had been so long since…