In a world that seems increasingly obsessed by air brushed perfection, somebody recently asked out of frustration “When do you think we might hear a world beating band throw caution to the wind and just go into a studio and record a bunch of songs...
It’s been quite a shift in many ways for me going from touring with Lostboy! AKA to the recently begun summer shows with Simple Minds. Going from playing a set of completely unproven live songs, to an almost two hour set of classics, it has also...
There will be no such thing as having the luxury of time when Simple Minds gather in Troyes next week for the first of our summer dates. In fact it will be a case of “how are you, let’s sound check, and now let’s play,”...
Although I am immersed in my Lostboy! AKA activities over the next month, I am also looking forward to the summer and the growing number of Simple Minds concerts that are due to happen. I suppose that I am guilty of continually going on about new...
In the last journal posted I wrote about the effect of applause and what it can do to encourage all of us. This time it is a shorter piece giving thanks where thanks is more than due, and as brief as it is it nevertheless...
Many newspapers were recently carrying a story and taking delight in the fact that a new movie - featuring a famous actress - had performed abysmally on it’s first day at the box office. Almost beside themselves with glee, they cackled in unison over the...
Mention to anyone involved with the band that there is even a chance of going to play in Australia and New Zealand and will not fail to see a smile spreads across their faces. It’s been that way in fact since we first went “down...
In a world ideal to SM only, we would do exactly what we wanted to do and whenever we wanted to it. In that same world we would need not rely on anyone and have no need to pay attention to the ways of the...
Doing what I do means that occasionally some people are curious to know more about who I am, what my beliefs are, my general likes and dislikes. Sometimes I am cool with that while at other times I find some line of questioning invasive, although...
The world is much smaller these days and it is the opportunities that come with modern travel modes make it so. A wide -eyed trip to the Paris flea markets was once an exotic adventure to anyone coming from my neck of the woods. Now of...
In many places it might be a little too early to go rejoicing about the first colours of spring, but here in Sicily those colours have arrived in great style and with them a new cycle of time has begun. Likewise with Simple Minds! It never...
It is a different climate and a different season that I find myself in, but other than that this year has begun leading on directly with an activity that I spent much of last year doing more intensively than ever previous. It is called song...
