May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Well, well, well….maybe he DOES listen to fans after all? Those who make a loud enough fuss, kicking and screaming that the dynamic of Simple Minds was fundamentally broken without a full-time keyboard player in the fold. Enter Berenice Scott! And…we are now back to full contingency.
And as we are now half-way through the first month of 2020, the other focus is on gigs and other events in the calendar. High on the anticipation scale is White Hot Day – the first Simple Minds fan convention in over 15 years and the first I’ve had the opportunity of being able to…
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What to do about this blog? Haven’t had much to say here this past month. It was all about the time in Oz with the family and friends. Now I am back home though, I am starting to think about what I can do with this blog. I guess soon enough it’ll be busy again,…
Not meant to be taken seriously. Let me explain. As I was travelling back home to the UK I posted to the SMO FB visitor wall about having Jim greet me at Glasgow Airport. I can’t remember what I wrote exactly. I was on the plane at the time and hadn’t slept for some time…
Please be back. Please be back… Jim. Please?
It’s now 4 years since this happened and I know Jim will be utterly bloody bored with it, so I’ll just keep the memory here on the blog. This anniversary I find myself back in Oz, so this year feels just a little more special, yet painfully sad. Kyoto might well still be in snow,…
With now just one week left to go here in Australia, time and the opportunities of spending time with them – friends (as well as the money required for destinations to travel to/back from) – are precious. I was really hoping I could get to visit friends in Melbourne and Adelaide whilst here. Sadly I…
Okay. I know it’s Christmas and Sir has got to have his family time. And I know the tour needs to be pushed. But!! FUCKING HELL – I MISS HIM! I miss how Simple Minds Official was. What’s happened? Why has he stepped away from it so much? I thought it was because of his…
I was in the city today and purely by chance walked by the venue that Simple Minds will play at in Sydney next year… the First State Super Theatre. There was advertising for the gig outside…
So, I checked out of the hotel I had spent the past three nights in this morning. I then went to the local shopping mall – Westfield, Liverpool… just to kill some time before heading up to Gosford and spending a few days with my friend, Gillian. I wandered about Westfield for a while, that…
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