May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Yesterday saw the anniversary of the release of Real To Real Cacophony. In celebration, here is my favourite video of them performing Factory on Belgian music show, Folllies (yes! It has three L’s – just like me!). I love Jim in this performance sssooo much! I mean…yes…he’s obviously had a “helping hand” but hey, whatever….
I was FAAAR too excited and wanting to just…purge all this out to write it down. Had it been earlier in the day, I’d have written it out. I kind of miss “being in love”. Irony. Irony is so funny.
I’m still doing a little toe-dip into Bolan and T Rex at the moment. Just a couple of tracks per night. Nothing too taxing or deeply absorbing. I’m not fully immersing myself into the whole thing. Not like I have done in recent times with other musical explorations – Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Magazine –…
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Haven’t watched one of Ellis’s videos for ages. He always just sounds so good to me. Dunno why. He just has a nice voice and can strum along pretty well. Always seems quite effortless. I love the pace of this version and the quirks he brings to it.No hi hat to endure! ?????
With Halloween fast approaching, I thought I’d share some darker themed Simple Minds tracks for MMM in the lead up to – what will be – the crappiest 50th birthday I could have ever have envisaged. First up, the fabulous Murder Story…
East West add on explanation.
Spotify played this track to me about a week ago and I had never heard it (or them) before. I really liked the sound (!) of them so went and listened to the rest of the album this song was off. I mentioned them here in one of my video posts. They sounded really good….