Parts of the Middle East are experiencing what is seemingly their "Berlin Wall Moment" and I can’t deny the thrill I feel on seeing people bravely take to the streets, particularly if it successfully results in the humiliating dismissal of a tyrant. But it was the...
It was a productive enough past year and that makes me feels good, always better feast than famine. To varying degrees of completion, I worked on somewhere around nearly 40 new song ideas over the last 12 months and that easily makes it the most creative...
Just a little note from Jim to say thank you for all the kind words and wishes he has received after his sad news this week. Here is an excerpt from Jim's journal yesterday: "Follower´s of my Facebook page will have recently seen the post where I...
We lost one of our greatest supporters this week. A fan who had been with Simple Minds since our first days right up until the present, one who had hung in there with us through all the tremendous highs as well as the inevitable lower...
Woke up unusually late, it was the voices of the kids playing outside in the snow filled street that brought me round. Far as I could remember the floating melody from Kanye West´s Dark Fantasy had gone on playing like a loop throughout my brain...
While stood in the hotel elevator for some reason I found myself considering the past, and perhaps more specifically, just how much I should consider it within my present life. Coincidentally, as I soon after entered the airy room, the bedside radio was quietly playing one...
Heading to Paris for the last gig of this tour but being honest - with SM there is no "last gig" as such. It just means the last gig before a break that inevitably leads to the next move forward and onwards into the future....
Last week a newspaper had a veiled go at me as it tried to make out that I was attacking the city of my birth. In doing so it ignored my fuller statement that for the most praised Glasgow highly. If anyone is in doubt...
It is with more than a little regret that I now get on this plane to head back to London, reason being that I enjoyed Brazil so much. A snapshot impression for you, - and it is only a snapshot as obviously we get little...
A little over two decades ago I had the pleasure and honour to spend a fair amount of time with Michael Been while touring America. Simple Minds may have been the headliners, however there was no doubt that is was us who looked up to...
The gig in The "Fete de l'humanit'e" on September 11th in La Courneuve Paris is set to be special in that it will be the last Simple Minds show for the foreseeable future. With a crowd of up to 100,000 expected at this famous event, I...
Brazil is a place that I imagine most of us have either dreamed of visiting, or in on way or another would desire experiencing for ourselves. I recall as an 11-year-old pupil at St Brigid’s primary school in Glasgow that our class did ‘a project’...
