May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This Saturday sees the 40th anniversary of one of Simple Minds’ most memorable early festival appearances in Europe, at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. By those who were there, it was a magical evening. As far as I am aware, Minds were not the headline act on the night. From what I can see of…
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I’m starting to go through the process of tidying up my Flickr account. With something like 20,000 photos in there, it is getting to be quite a trawl looking through them for a specific photo. Yesterday I started with a folder of all the black and white SM pics up to 1984, today I started…
Their best ever “cover”? I put it in quotation marks, for, speaking about it at the time Jim was reticent to call it a cover…more a reinterpreting. Whatever you decide to call it, it was wonderfully done. I used to watch the live clip from Roskilde a lot. I haven’t for a while…and instead playing…
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…
It’s a cover, but I love it…and, well, if I am to make a piece for every track on every Simple Minds album…this must be included, for it is a track on Sparkle In The Rain. Probably should have not used these particular lines, either…but in the context of the song, they hold the most…
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Lol. Jim makes so many dog-barking type “woof” noises during this performance. He gives me the giggles. He’s such a fantastic blend of cute/sexy/crazy/weird/funny – I adore him! Once again, performing Street Hassle at Roskilde Festival, 1983.
Jim (in WCS) – performing Street Hassle at Roskilde Festival, 1983
priptona-weird: “There’s nothing left to say” – Street Hassle, Simple Minds. Jim – I wish you’d stop being so dismissive of recording this song for SITR. WAGGING YOUR FINGER AT YOSELF!!
Song twelve of the Dream Setlist. My favourite Simple Minds cover. I don’t even know the Lou Reed version – I don’t WANT to know it – because it’ll never live up to this version for me anyway. Street Hassle – Simple Minds (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
“We need your loving so badly.” (Click to view video in post)