May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
There have been some other great reviews coming in for Graeme Thomson’s Themes For Great Cities book. Firstly, Classic Pop magazine gave a glowing review. And recently, both Uncut and Electronic Sound magazines have reviewed it. The Electronic Sound review is succinct yet wonderfully positive. The Uncut review gives the book an 8/10 and its…
YES THEY DID! The badges I very gratefully received from a fellow SM fan in Vancouver were in multiples. I asked if they were okay with me giving some of the badges away and they were happy to allow me to do that. I didn’t want to come across as ungrateful for the wonderful, kind…
SSE and Nordoff Robbins are holding a charity raffle and one of the prizes is a Simple Minds concert package. The prize includes a pair of tickets to their Hydro gig, rescheduled for April 6th, 2022, a signed guitar and dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Glasgow. You can enter the raffle online by…
UPDATE: There is just two days to go to make a donation and enter the prizedraw for your chance to win Charlie Burchill’s guitar. You need to enter by 6pm GMT, Wednesday, March 17th. This is AWESOME! Charlie has donated one of his Stratocaster guitars as part of a prize draw for the #iLoveLive Crowdfunder…
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Simple Minds are giving away a copy of the special edition copy of Heart Of The Crowd. To be in with a chance, check out the details on how to enter in this tweet, or see their FB page for details. But be quick! Entries close next Friday, Feb 19th! Only 20 copies of the…
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There’s a raffle that’s been organised to raise money for the NHS and Simple Minds have kindly donated meet and greet tickets to the cause. The meet and greet will take place at their rescheduled dates in February next year – at the venue of your choice. To buy tickets for the raffle (each ticket…
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This is the last place I am mentioning it, strangely enough. So, I will just copy the rest of my blurb from posting about it on Facebook… It might be a strange one to give away as it is so personalised… but there’s no point in me keeping this copy. I already have a matt…
Full details at Argos on Twitter. Closing time for entries is 17:00, Friday, November 29th. (I might be a little bit pre-occupied right at that point in time!) Good luck! Argos are giving away tickets to see Simple Minds in London next April! Simply recreate @Argos_Online's Christmas advert, featuring 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', however…
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Just…wow! I could see it play out, just the way he described it. The street scene of him avoiding his grandfather and the notion of yet another dressing down. I could see this little man, tough as nails looking…but also looking quite frail and vulnerable at the same time (well, Jim’s only clue on how…
VisitColchester (Colchester Tourism – run by Colchester Borough Council) are giving away a pair of gold tickets to one lucky fan. Just click on the image below to be taken to the competition page to enter. All you have to do is answer a “simple” question. Entries close at 23:59 BST on Thursday, 9th August…
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