JIM KERR
With a new Simple Minds album out soon and some live dates approaching, Jim Kerr gives us the lowdown on tabasco sauce, sour grapes and being mistaken for Jimi Hendnx
First record you ever bought [Javirl Bowv: Hie Rise and Fall of //(;_(}i Sta/(lust
Last time you were chatted up this; morning?
First film you saw that really moved you Bambi
Last lie you told It's been a while honest?
First movie you ever went on a date to Jt'iws
Last time you cried Yesterday
First thing you do when you’ve got time off work Go tor a long walk.
Last great meal you cooked Now you've got me!
Last extravagant purchase you made
am not really that extravagant. I think it was probably a black leather Jacket.
First crush Celtic.
Last book you read
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First great piece of advice you were given What", for ,Ou ml: not 3’) (Jan! .
Last time you were star struck Ounte recently, It was '.‘./llll(: ~.-./atr':':in;; our guitarist Charlie Burch lE (raj, natta' break on our track Rockets
First thing you’d do if you ran the country Put a roof over it.
Last meal on earth - what would it be?
A toasted cheese sanrlwmm x'rith tabaseo sauce. Maybe two actually since it wrll be a lOng time before I eat anything else.
First song you’ll sing at karaoke ‘My Way'.
Last time you exploited your position to get something Who me?
First time you realised you were famous
When a guy in Spain asked me if I was Jimi Hendrix!
Last time someone criticised your work Better for them that I don't know?
First three words your friends would use to describe you A true Glaswegian.
Last time you made an impulse
buy and regretted it Today. I bought a kilo of tasteless
grapes and my heart is; bleeriiw; v.3. wake up in the morning
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First concert you ever attended
Genesis. Last thing you think of before you go to sleep
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First thing you think of when you
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I The haircut on the wee boy in Let the Right One In. Like a
udding bowl,
ut with a whole new late OOs twist. Hold us back from the barber's shop. We're serious. I Lost. After years in the wilderness (baddaboom) the desert island drama is back on track with a mind-
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The things making our world just that little bit better
bending time travel slant and some terrible 19705 perms. I Making our mothers think we've got sailor tattoos up our legs by wearing _- Scottish designers Bebaroque’s new Venus tights to polite family gatherings. I Discovering whole new worlds of taste with prawn cocktail Prinqles. Who needs gimmicky ‘squirrel’ flavours?
I Warming our cockles with the story of the man in a remote Cornish village who learned how to deliver a baby via YouTube when his wife went into labour. Isn’t technology grand?
I Looking down our noses at people who are still making rubbish swine flu jokes. Oinkment? Come on folks.