Seemingly I have been slipping down right off the edge of the world, fingertips grasping onto the only things that really make sense. And in this time a different condition flashes through my mind almost daily and so when it does I take probably more...
I spent the weekend in the Sicilian countryside enjoying “La Vendemmia” – the Italian grape harvest. As always it was an idyllic though hard working experience that is much better suited for those with a strong back, and even more suited to those born with...
Its two weeks since the final show and the “come down” that I am experiencing in the aftermath is noticeable. To summarize, I seem to be in the throws of a small depression. Sluggish, may be just one adjective I could use to describe how...
Anyone taking a close look at Simple Minds currently will surely not be able to suggest that creatively speaking at least - the band is in anything but great shape. This is not me merely blowing my own horn either, it is genuinely how I...
Modern life began in Edinburgh when a handful of Scottish thinkers changed forever the way people thought about what it is to be human. But don’t worry – this is simpleminds.com after all and being so I am not tempted least within these pages to...
Many years ago I asked the driver who was taking me to perform a concert in the Midlands to pull over and pick up a couple of rain soaked fans who were hitch hiking to see SM play live later on that day. The driver...
We are now coming to the “dog end days “of our summer tour and to be frank I can’t stand it. Not the actual concerts of course. What I mean is the broken up schedule of a show here, a show there, a few days...
Later this week in an open air stadium in Stuttgart we are set to open for The Rolling Stones, it will be the third time in our career that we will have been given the task of warming up the audience for Mick, Keith, Charlie...
There really is no competition; the Teatro Greco in Taormina is the most beautiful concert venue that any artist could hope to perform in. Personally speaking, just to set foot on stage in that ancient Greek theatre amphitheatre is almost enough to fill me with...
When we are truly ourselves and giving all of our best, it often seems like we are awake among sleeping people. The energy alone that we radiate at those times awakes others. And while the words we say mean nothing, it is the energy that...
Of all the tracks that we have produced there is little doubt that “Don’t You Forget Me” is the track that Simple Minds is best known for. It was also our first true global hit single having reached no1 on the American Billboard charts in...
Pleasure and the pain, agony and the ecstasy, heaven and hell, are just a few of the expressions that could be used to describe my life over these last weeks where I have split my time between touring throughout sun drenched Europe in all it’s...
