06 Mar, 2008 CELEBRATE
In the end it was inevitable that we would not let the year ghost by without playing live. How could we? It is after all the year that marks...
News Items
05 Mar, 2008 New Gold Dream 2008
Simple Minds will perform for the first time the entirety of their 1982 album ‘New Gold Dream’ featuring the hits ‘Promised You a Miracle’, ‘Glittering Prize’, and ‘Someone,...
11 Jan, 2008 Somethings Never Change
For me the past year was one of those non years where we did not get to shout and bawl or make our noise anywhere to the extent...
09 Nov, 2007 New label for Simple Minds / Night of The Proms
The next set of new recordings from Simple Minds will be released through the newly formed W14/Universal label. Having purchased the Sanctuary label earlier this year W14/Universal automatically...
26 Oct, 2007 November ’77
November '77. It was precisely that month when our six month lark as Johnny And The Self Abusers finally came to a crashing and chaotic end following one...
13 Sep, 2007 Looking Back on Mandela Day
What satisfaction it brought just a couple of weeks ago when Nelson Mandela visited the centre of London to witness the unveiling of a proud statue commissioned in...
13 Sep, 2007 Chrissie Hynde (The Last Of The Great Independents)
Chrissie Hynde (The Last Of The Great Independents) All of the artists I admire very few impress me more than Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders. To this day she...
28 Aug, 2007 Something clicks
On a chilly enough Edinburgh night almost a year ago from now, we played what was to be the last concert date of our quite extensive Black and...
02 Aug, 2007 I Run
I go running relatively early each and every morning if at all possible. Blessed with good health throughout my life to date, I began exercising regularly around ’94...
17 Jul, 2007 Douglas James Cowan
An emotional day, I write this partly en route from the islands of sun and volcanoes to the land of mist and rain. Less a homecoming, the purpose...
11 Jun, 2007 Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend
John Cale, the former and one of the founder members of the greatest band of all time - The Velvet Underground - wrote a brilliant song called Fear...
22 May, 2007 Lisbon Lions!
It is with great excitement that we look forward to this Friday the 25th of May when we will turn up at Celtic Football Stadium in Glasgow and...