Weekend WhirliGIG Wish
Cardiff, Sunday, December 6th, 2009. A lovely, song heavy pre-Christmas gig in the Welsh capital. Grand! Enjoy!
Cardiff, Sunday, December 6th, 2009. A lovely, song heavy pre-Christmas gig in the Welsh capital. Grand! Enjoy!
Back to Amsterdam, for the first night of the two weekend gigs they did on March 22/23, 1980. The second gig was recorded for Dutch radio, this first one is a bootleg…but considering the passage of time and recording techniques for “home jobs” back then (plus endless shares, and shares, retaping, copies of copies), it…
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An early version of Kaleidoscope recorded at Leeds, 29/7/1979 (Aawww! My baby’s just made it to 20! I could pinch his cheeks! The ones on his face…well, those ones too! *wink wink*) Different lyrics to what end up being recorded for the I Travel bonus flexi-disc. The Kerr-Boy likes to do that. Different lyrics entirely…
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Working on compiling a list of “Weekend WhiliGIGs”…and…having to check, source certain references…I find myself, at points, getting distracted. It happens when one is “Kerr-sed”. Had to check the date of a gig…find myself at the Minds “Bible” that is Dream Giver Redux (simpleminds.org), looking at the list of tours. 1982…tour lists Kerr…delicious… Going ga…
September 6th, 1981 – A Sunday gig…and one that Jim was sick at…towards the end of the gig. The organiser in an interview some years later said it was due to Jim’s nerves…but if that had been the case, would that not have happened at the start (Jim being sick, that is)? Either way, I…
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This may not happen EVERY weekend, but it will ON a weekend. The concept? Find a weekend gig that happened sometime in the past…find a good or at least “atmospheric” recording of it, and share it…as the experience of that gig plays out in your mind’s eye. So, I present to you, for this weekend…a…
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To the blog. A new little topic/subject matter on a weekly basis. I mean…Kerrsday Thursday has pretty much run its course. There might be the odd special, but other than that, unless some never-before-seen picture of Jim reveals itself… But the new thing. The new idea…I made a piece of art for it today. I’ve had…