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Kerrsday Thursday – 4 August 2022

Kerrsday Thursday – 4 August 2022

A nice surprise via Toronto and some gems from Toddevision for today’s Kerrsday Thursday. Enjoy!

jim kerr

Stills From….The Most Perfect Clip EVER!

Just so I wouldn’t be down on missing the gig at Freiburg tonight….I have these. He’s beautiful! Good night.

jim kerr

Warning: Melting Fangirl Alert!!!

I know I shouldn’t…but HOLY SHIT…Jim Kerr in 1981 is the most beautiful, most extraordinary thing I have ever seen in my life. (I still love you, Jim! I would NEVER say ‘no’ – not in a bajillion years! … this is why he hates me – I’m ssooo fucking superficial!) THIS FOOTAGE IS JUST…

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As Dorothy Said To Aunty Em…

“There’s no place like home.” A much used quote lifted from The Wizard Of Oz. But it rings true. And it certainly seemed to have rung true on the nights of November 18th and 19th, 1982. Simple Minds had just returned to Glasgow after another whirlwind stint of touring to the far reaches of the…

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Minds Music Monday – Wonderful In Young Life – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration

I’ve written about this song so much – when I actually COULD write about it! When I could somehow manage to express all that it means to me.  The first time I heard it I was probably only about four weeks into my fandom. It brought me to tears the very first time. I had…

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jim kerr

Happy Canada Day

Any excuse will do…

jim kerr

Minds Music Monday – 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall – SAF/SFC 40th Anniversary Celebration

You can’t escape it. The thing that hits you when your first hear this song is Charlie’s pedal affected riff that makes it sound for all the world like a cow has entered the recording studio to add a repetitive “mooooo” to the music. It’s a bit of an “in joke” in amongst the Simple…

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Follows In Love – Simple Minds, Toronto, 1982 – New Art & Talk YouTube Upload

Yesterday morning when I opened up Facebook to catch up with what had been posted, etc, during the night while I had been sleeping, I looked at my notifications to see I’d been tagged in a post on one of the SM groups. The tag linked to what is below. A new upload from Art…

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I Think I Might Be Beside The Seaside…

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Gang Of Four, YouTube Minds and the salty sea Ayr….

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Toronto Photoset By Angel Marchini

I was hoping to highlight a different photo in the set – a beautiful one of Jim – and had contacted Angel for permission to use the photo to link to the set. He had granted permission for use but wanted to watermark the image in question first and asked me to send on a…

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