May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This goes for an hour – so you can watch it in chunks, or choose not to watch it at all. It’s not imperative. I just felt like doing this for a change. I felt like talking…lord knows why. It was attempt number two as the one I filmed yesterday felt crap. Ha ha. This…
A rare dry night for Glasgow at this time of year. Fantastic. Nothing suits me more. I very easily get put off by attending gigs when the weather is shite. It had been pretty shite for the 48 hours leading up to it. Through Thursday night and into Friday it had been blowing a hoolie,…
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So, where do I start? TARA FB (AT LEAST FOR NOW ANYWAY) After the Cloth gig review, there were a couple of posts on the Simple Minds Facebook page that riled me. One was to do with “writing your own story” as implied by the text laid out accredited to Kerr. I think the title…
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As the weather gets more dreich and the nights get longer, I naturally begin to feel less inclined to venture out of the house, especially at night for gigs – as much as I love going to them. As it was, some weeks earlier I had decided to abandon going to one gig that I…
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I am anxious, rushed, rambling, questioning – my usual scary, fucked up hot mess – but I needed to purge (and perhaps vent?) a little on the book. The first 99 pages anyway. IT’S NOT A REVIEW – it’s just my own feelings and thoughts.
On the plug, plug, plug trail. On BBC Radio 2 breakfast, on with Lorraine, on TalkSport….the list goes on and on. I used BBC Sounds for tuning in to hear them (obviously THEM being Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill) speaking to Sara Cox on Radio 2. This morning the YouTube algorithm served me up this….
It has taken me a bit of time to get to this (apologies to Drew for not responding earlier) but this is quite a fine effort done by Drew of covering Johnny and the Self Abusers track Pablo Picasso. Give a listen – be mindful of young kids being within earshot as there is some…
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This was my first chance of seeing a full headline set from Zoe, having previously seen her in support slots for Echo and the Bunnymen and Lo Moon, as well as attending her in-store set and signing at Assai Records in Glasgow. As you may have seen from my list of upcoming gigs I was…
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The initial travel plan for me was to get the CityLink 900 coach to and back from Edinburgh and then get the train to/back from North Berwick from/to Waverley. I booked the coach tickets via Megabus instead of booking via CityLink. I’d never had any problems booking with Megabus before but this time, although I…
Read full post “Hamish Hawk/Billy Nomates/Cloth – Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick 08/08/2025” »
Sorry for the vid – I felt like dissecting it all this way instead of taking hours to compile a written post. I know the vlog posts aren’t to everyone’s liking, so to save you the pain, the condensed summary is: Yes & Maybe – great! Hamish Hawk – you know I can wax lyrical…
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