May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
It’s Halloween on Sunday, and I’ll be 51 – YAY! Pfft! Lol What am I doing to celebrate? Not much – but more than I got to do last year. A milestone birthday, “celebrated” in the middle of a pandemic was ssoooo joyous! Lol Anyway, this year I get a night out in Edinburgh, seeing…
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I’d love to know more about when and where this video of Love Song was done (ie: which music program, which country and when – 1981 is all I got)! Answers on a postcard. At least I know a tad more about the Hear Here appearance and thank fuck they were allowed to perform live!…
“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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It’s that … cold war Europe sensibility and style it has. Actually, it’s more post-war (The Great War), 1930’s, really. It’s Christopher Isherwood Berlin. Not flappers and sharp-suited men…later…early 1930s….now more the time of “austerity” (and how relevant does it make this song now?!), mass unemployment – post Wall Street Crash and the Hoover Dam…
Really love this one. The image of Jim I used…how abstract I made it…the “rhythm pulse” and the human “drum” circular font ring. The colour scheme…all of it :-))
Lyric of the day Song: Today I Died Again Album: Empires And Dance Year of release: 1980 Words: Jim Kerr
Shuffle Mode went from Today I Died Again to Celebrate 😉 I know I’m on shuffle mode but as soon as Today I Died Again finished, I could hear Celebrate in my head – so when it started playing I was like GOOD JOB SHUFFLE MODE!! *clapped hands* Lol :-))
Absolutely everything I love about early Simple Minds all here in one little dynamic live set. They were just ‘ON’ from the get go! Amazing young musicians in Derek Forbes, Mick MacNeil and Brian McGee – not forgetting two stalwarts of Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr – what a frontman he is! Yes, biased, I…
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