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...
Just announced, Simple Minds to play TW Classic Festival, Festivalpark, Werchter, Belgium. on Saturday 9th July 2011 http://www.twclassic.be Bill: 7/Bryan Adams 6/Shakira 5/Simple Minds 4/TBC 3/TBC 2/ TBC 1/TBC Ticket Price: 69.00 € Box office Telephone: In Belgium: 0900 2 60 60 In Holland: 0900 45 000 45 All other countries: +32 34 00 00 34 CLICK HERE TO BUY...
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...
Simple Minds are to play a 'Greatest Hits UK Forest Tour' next summer, playing a series of dates in spectacular woodland locations as part of Forestry Commission Live Music. Special guest support for all dates will be Starsailor front man James Walsh. Money generated by Forestry Commission...
PRS for Music launch `The Art Of The Song´ auction in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust Contributions from 70 leading songwriters including Sir Paul McCartney, Sting, Gary Barlow and Simon Le Bon PRS for Music, the organisation that collects and pays royalties to its 75,000 song-writing and...
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...
As anyone who reads Jim's Diary will know, the man never rests...
Simple Minds have recently completed four weeks in London's Sphere Recording studios. The sessions which featured the band line - up of Andy Gillespie, Mel Gaynor, Ged Grimes, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr, were produced by Andy Wright and engineered and mixed by Gavin Goldberg. In...
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...
