With one more week to go until the 11 July gig in Fuerth with Mind 2 Mode there is just one question on the lips of every Burchill fan across the world which haircut to go for – the “Burchill-crop circa 1988 Mandela Concert 80’s classic” or the “1995 longer hair sensitive-new-age-guitarist-crop”. Now I ve [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Charlie Burchill’
June 13, 2008
“Not my girlfriend….Not my mum either.”
Royal Mail has had to lay on extra transport in the last week to deliver thousands of letters asking:
“Is the woman shown in the YouTube video was Jim Kerr’s current squeeze?”
“Is Jim operating the camera?”
Well, sadly the answer to both of these is no.
May 24, 2008
Mandela: Jim Pulls Out
Just kidding,…ole Simple Minds will be playing at the Mandela Concert on 27 June this year and it brings a tear to my eye. However, what the band will make of some of the other acts lined up brings into question the usual cross generational barriers. Didn’t it used to be about the music? Isn’t [...]
April 27, 2008
How to be Charlie Burchill in 10 easy steps
1. Confuse your fans by looking and sounding a little like Gordon Brown [see 'Is Burchill The New Prime Minister?' posted September 2006]. Keep all your hair unlike other guitarists we could mention that you never see without a hat.
2. When playing live, mouth the words to the songs,…..but wait, those arent the same words [...]
June 28, 2007
Is Burchill the new Prime Minister?
Is Charlie Burchill the alter ego of Gordon Brown?…now there’s a question. I suppose being a guitarist myself, this is a conspiracy with limited interest. Whilst Jim is usually the focus of attention – Charlie could be off leading a double life which has remained, so far, unexposed. Has anyone ever seen them both on [...]
