May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
There continues to be more dates and info drip-feeding through on the Simple Minds front. Another set of dates added to the growing list for summer 2025. This time we now have a date for Dutch fans with the band’s inclusion in the line-up for the BosPop festival in Weert on 12 July. Along with…
I was looking around eBay earlier wanting to see what Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers stuff is up there. There’s a lot of stuff that’s in the USA, sadly, which would make it very costly to get sent to here. This one really piqued my interest! I love original gig posters like this. Even more of a…
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Listen to Jonathan Richman.
I think this documentary ended up posing more questions than it answered. Firstly, it doesn’t sugarcoat the notion of Lou Reed being….well…actually perhaps they DO sugarcoat it. Because what became obvious was that to label Reed “troubled” is somewhat of an understatement. I actually started to wonder how anyone managed to work with him. Certainly…
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