May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I was pretty much a U2 fan from the get go. My brother, Quince, is only a few weeks younger than Bono…so U2’s debut release was as about as contemporary as it could get for him! I was half the age, only just coming up to my 10th birthday, but the album spoke volumes to…
“He don’t say much. He’s bored with the fans.“ – it’s how it feels anyway. And if I hear one more “he’s a busy man” excuse, I’ll scream! Because…HE IS ALWAYS BUSY! He is Jim fucking Kerr – apart from me using “fucking” just now – “busy” is his middle name – for want of…
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So…I get the message behind the phrase itself. I understand it. There’s a time and place, of course. I would like to hope that in the current climate that Sir Kerr is FAR FROM suggesting anyone that has suffered adversely from this current pandemic should just…”embrace the suck”. I’d like to believe he has far…
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He has changed the post several times now since he originally posted it last night. He likes to fuss over the posts most times, chopping and changing text as he goes, adding things, removing others. Perhaps he was right about himself when he said to Ricky Ross at the end of that recent interview “I…
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I’m always flicking through the pages of the music mags. Not much really has me stopping for too long. (Perhaps to my detriment? A slow reader’s curse that to be drawn in to read something, you REALLY have to grab their attention – going by my own experience anyway.) I suppose I am finding myself…
Cherisse in rehearsals for Kelly Jones tour Sir talks writing songs and Govanhill library “No news is good news” the old saying goes. In that case, Simple Minds HQ is positively drowning in good news! Lol Just the one post this week from The Mister after last Sunday’s “I’ve woken up thinking about gigging” exciting…
Still on the tidying up process of my Flickr account (I underestimated the number of images I have in my account. 20k was not quite right…the figure is nearer 34k! That’s A LOT of images to be sifting through and sorting out!) The image below was posted by Jim on January 3rd, 2016. Underneath it…
I had never read (or even SEEN) this interview before. I’m sure he must have shared it on SMO at the time…but I was so early into my mega fandom, I no doubt overlooked it. Too busy absorbing the music and many other things about the Simple Minds world. Watching tons of early footage…as much…
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The best of today’s shared interviews – Jim’s words on Kirsty MacColl in particular are wonderful. He elaborated a little more on the SMO post. You can view the whole interview on the SongFacts blog by CLICKING HERE And, in case for some reason, it disappears from the comments, my response to a particular part…
Because….we like a good fuck 😉 (Like I know what one of those is after 24 years. Lol)