May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I love a podcast and recently I have been going through quite a heavy spell of podcast listening. There are some long regulars like The Archers – I know! Had you told me when I first moved to the UK and learned about The Archers that I’d start listening to it several years later and…
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The documentary on the famous Monmouthshire recording studio is set to air simultaneously on BBC Two Wales and BBC Four on Saturday, July 18th at 9pm BST. Below is a trailer on the documentary – with a tiny snippet of Jim discussing Simple Minds’ meeting with David Bowie and Iggy Pop while the band were…
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The dancefloor. Frigging hell! Did Simple Minds know how to fill it back in the day. I guess they still do to be fair. But let us rewind back to 1979. Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside. Five young men from Glasgow are in the studio making the followup to their debut album. An album…
Opened in 1965, Rockfield Studios is the world’s first residential studio facility and is now rated among the world’s finest and most characterful recording environments. We visit the iconic facility to find out more about its history and its part in the recording of so many classic albums. A great article from MusicTech about the…
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One last clip of him from Green Man on Saturday night. Can’t wait until the October gigs! Now, back to it being a Simple Minds blog…
I loved watching every second of these guys! And I am DETERMINED to see them again! Enjoy!
This was the experience of a lifetime. Genuinely! I had been very hopeful that my entry for the competition to the Green Man festival would be successful. I noticed a mistake in the crossword as I was solving it, so I was hopeful that I would be savvy enough in providing what was the correct…
Sorry it’s been so quiet here, guys…but as I suspected, my connection to the Internet these past couple of days has been intermittent at best. The plan is to go home late this evening after seeing John Grant’s set…but that my change yet. We’ll see. But the festival has been great so far. Not seen…
Off to the Brecon Beacons…near Abergavenny…for four days – for the Green Man Festival. Won the tickets after all…might as well try and go to the thing. It’s an experience! Anyway…I think my time away will have me cut off from the Internet – for the most part – so things will be quiet here…