May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Some poetry. Inner thoughts. Something beyond the mere plug of a gig, a product. Of course, that needs to be done, I guess. But there is that human touch I was so starting to miss. The end message seems to be “buck up, kid. Nothing lasts forever.” Yeah. Don’t remind me. And don’t remind you…
Trying to work on getting my mojo/muse back. I just keep sending Jim into space at the moment. I’m guessing there’s a subconscious subtext there. Distance. Isolation. Feeling cut off. Set adrift. May have to start painting again. Maybe it’ll lead to more expression. Painting used to depress me and take me too far into…
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…
And still I miss him. I felt his presence greatly fours ago…. Yet today… no. I know. Silly I should want it. Hey, I’m just another fan, right? No one special. No more deserving of any special treatment as anyone else. But… oh, today I wished. Just… for something. ??? (Silly girl grieving. Ignore me….
I’ve lost my way with this blog, partly due to … someone being much quieter this year, for one. And now my muse has escaped me. The past several weeks has been all change, on a personal note. I fly out to Sydney in two weeks time. We move to Glasgow on Friday. And if…
It couldn’t have been more exciting, nerve-wrecking and slightly unexpected as this! The house-hunting has officially come to an end. No more searching required. My trip to Glasgow last weekend led me to view this… A rather traditional style 1930s built 3 bed semi-detached house. Not a house I would have ever envisaged myself living…
This week I have been mostly…working out which gigs I wanted to go to…and then making the plans for a preliminary reccy to Glasgow. I started with the UK first and working with the notion that Glasgow will be a local gig so grabbed my soundcheck experience there first. After that, the next nearest UK…
Can’t help feeling I’m “persona non grata” BIG TIME right now. Oh, well. Let’s still go to a few gigs, eh? I still love him even if he disnae love me. Leeds ?? Dublin ?? Glasgow ?? And… one mainland date… but which one? And I need to bear in mind my King Creosote gig…
Recently I have been told by a few people that I write very well. One suggested I contact a music magazine and lodge an application to work for them. This person had written articles themselves for the magazine in question and they gave me the email address of the editor. I didn’t do anything about…
The album that did it for me. The one that, during my exploration of the Simple Minds back catalogue, “sealed the deal”. Empires And Dance put me into a state of…I dunno…suspended animation. I quite literally could not believe what I was hearing…that the band responsible for Don’t You (Forget About Me ) – subsequently…