May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The return of the weekend whirligig sees us revisiting SM performing a set for BBC Radio One “in concert”. Contains cracking versions of White Light/White Heat, original Kerr lyrics to Scar and a great Pleasantly Disturbed, marred only by having lines of my least favourite David Bowie song – the truly turgid Memory Of A…
Something different for this week. Radio sessions in 1982. The first two songs…Promised You A Miracle and In Trance As Mission were recorded in February and during the week, but the latter three songs: Someone Somewhere In Summertime, Glittering Prize and Hunter And The Hunted – were recorded on August 13th…a Friday. Any gig or…
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A Saturday outdoor festival gig. Werchter was one of the first festivals SM played, back in the day, and the band and crowd took eachother to their hearts. What follows is a playlist of video clips created by the SM Official YouTube account showcasing the performance in 2012 – the festival’s “5×5 plus” setlist. I…
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A Sunday gig…and a day prior to someone’s 25th birthday…showcasing quite a bit of “Sparkle”. The final whiriGIG of the year. BRING ON 2018!
A Sunday, pre-Christmas gig – PAKCED with songs from the yet-to-be-released Sparkle In The Rain. Imagine them doing that now? Us getting gigs with half of Walk Between Worlds airing BEFORE release date? Okay…it could be argued they did that slightly with Acoustic…but nothing on the album was new material, so it doesn’t count. A…
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Of course, we have had the visuals for this gig, in a truncated 35 minute set that Virgin Records recorded…but this is the full gig from the night. It would be wonderful if Virgin would release the full visual experience…or even a higher quality audio experience of the full gig than this already quite passible…
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012…not quite a 5×5 tour set, but near enough minus them performing Moscow Underground, Waterfront, See The Lights and Don’t You. This festival is a FREE ADMISSION festival! OMG…I’d have DIED to see them for nowt! At the 18 minute 55 second mark, there is a rather sexy AF version of Celebrate…
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Weekend whirligig is back after a couple of weeks off. The weekend before last was the pent up crazy excitement of all the SM news dropping, and then last weekend I was away. And so tonight (late Thursday night) I went to YouTube to start my search for an appropriately dated gig…and there it was…
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A Sunday evening gig. OH MY FLIPPING GOD – THEY WALK ON TO KANT KINO!!! Could have better sound quality…a better quality recording exists, by all accounts. This version is obviously a tape of a tape of a tape and running a little fast…Jim’s voice is almost chipmunk-esque at times, though he usually has a…
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Ooh…one that made it on the album! And a personal fave…in my Top 50 – Murder Story