May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
News on the Virginia Turbett front. There’s a book on Iggy Pop coming out. In his own words, it seems. Not quite a memoir, as such, but more the printing of his lyrics with notes and photos complimenting and elaborating on the thought processes involved in the craft of songwriting. It sounds really good. And…
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Hey peeps! If you find yourself in Brighton on Sunday, you could do worse things than get yourself to the Volks Club along the seafront in Brighton. There’s a celebration of all things Mod going on over the weekend and on Sunday, Virginia Turbett will be there selling Mod themed prints – both digital prints…
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In January last year I went and visited Virginia Turbett so I could take a proper and extensive view of her archive of Simple Minds images. She has something like 1000 images or more of the band so you can imagine what total fangirl heaven I was in just even TRYING to view over 1000…
All those amazing photos. Amazing. They are! Dunno who wrote this ? but I like it!
Early days for content but it will soon build. I cannot recommend this lady enough – esp. for Simple Minds content – but she has such an extensive catalogue of artists and bands she’s photographed. You name them, she’s probably photographed them! Please check out her stuff ? View this post on Instagram A post…
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There is a new Facebook page that will be highlighting some of the amazing work of Virginia Turbett. It’s only just got up and running, but I think it will become a great showcase of her wonderful work. If the first photo shared on the page is anything to go by (and I am a…
There’s a new Hanging Around book release featuring the photography of Virginia Turbett. The book in question features photos of The Ruts (aka Ruts DC – as they are known these days). The book called “South Of Babylon: The Ruts 1978-1979” is available to pre-order through the Hanging Around Books site and is released on…
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Christmas has arrived a little early for me this year in the form of a set of three prints from Virginia Turbett of Jim backstage at a gig at – I think it’s the Odeon in Edinburgh on August 27th, 1981 – and I think it may be post gig, as he appears to be,…
Och, you know…I’m actually really wanting this now. It does look very pretty…you know…aesthetics and all that. I’m so shallow! But…there’s little point in me rushing to get it just now. It will just be more stuff to pack and shift to a new home…so I might as well put it off for now. I…
… But somebody’s got to do it! Spent the afternoon at Virginia’s, TRYING to make my mind up. Just ended up endlessly finding myself saying “can I just have one of everything of Jim, please? Lol Yep… solid gone. I did have help (hinderance) though… Thanks for having me once again, Virginia ?