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’...
Jim will contribute to the BBC's flagship evening programme 'The One Show' on July 28th at 7.00pm UK time. The article is about protest songs and Jim discusses the Simple Minds classic No 1 'Belfast Child' We will try to get permission to add the footage to...
Due to TORNADO damage to the original venue the show at Ciney on Sunday 18th July 2010 will now take place at: WEX – MARCHE EN FAMENNE, RUE DES 2 PROVINCES , 2 6900 MARCHE, BELGIUM. Date: Sunday 18th July 2010 SAME DATE AND TIME Support Arno Carstens CLICK...
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...
The Simple Minds set covered live at last years Isle of Wight Festival by Absolute Radio had a fantastic response from listeners. As a result of this it is to be repeated this weekend to get everyone in the mood for this years festival! The performance...
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,”...
Martha Wainwright and Jim Kerr have just recorded an original version of the iconic Simple Minds song 'Promised You a Miracle', to draw attention to the hundreds of thousands of women still dying from avoidable complications in childbirth and pregnancy. Ten years ago world leaders signed...
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...
Jim and Charlie have an argument and its caught on CCTV...
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...
