May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
THIS IS *MY* BLOG! I am free to express whatever I like on here. If it upsets you…you can choose NOT to read it. You can choose NOT to visit my blog…funnily enough. As free as you are to tell me to “get a grip, for fuck sake”…I am free to ignore your recommendation completely….
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In the past three weeks, the feelings and emotions I derived from the band I love(d) have changed…dramatically. I’m not sure how I am going to continue this blog and be truly objective, for one! And, it probably stopped being objective on January 5th, 2016…the day of the Hunter And The Hunted post. I need…
Today I will try and get some things done on the blog. I have audio to put up. The extract of Joe Donnelly’s interview with Debbie McGee, Jim Kerr’s interview with Janice Long, and all four parts of the history of Scottish pop – the compendium to the Rip It Up exhibition, currently on display…
Despite how it seems, I hate having pictures taken of myself. I like group shots….documents of hanging out with other people…moments caught for all time…but just an intimate shot of me alone, taken by someone else (as opposed to my silly selfies which normally have me pulling stupid faces or generally being a ninny)? No….
I’ve been reading articles from various magazines this evening. An interview with Glenda Jackson in one, various bits from “This Week”, including an article on how appalling we seem to be at retaining the details of a novel’s plot and story arc after we’ve read it. I found it particularly interesting, as I feel I…
Two bits about the interviews today that I want to bring up. In the Scots magazine interview is this passage: “Despite such global acclaim, incredible wealth, and high-profile marriages to Patsy Kensit and Chrissie Hynde, Kerr has always maintained an air of humility. ‘It’s not in my nature to be any other way’, he says….
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I feel sickeningly behind time with the blog at the moment. I have several audio clips of recent interviews to share…plus I never really gave any real reviews of the gigs themselves…was finding that hard when the four ran pretty much back to back, with only one day’s break between London and Paris. Gillian and…
It was a song I…kind of avoided listening to over the past few years. I don’t really know why, for sure. Maybe an intuition? I’ve probably only listened to the Lostboy! version about three times in total. Perhaps something was telling me it was…incomplete…and that it would be reworked. I genuinely don’t know why I…
Well, one would like to wish! The first line of TSATN reminded me of a discussion once had with Jim… “Take off those headphones and let this world pour into you”…
All will be revealed at a much later date…