25 Jan, 2007 OZ+NZ Simple Minds Live Again!
Eventually with all our thoughts currently concentrating on the next album I did not expect that we would be playing live again so soon - but the unexpected...
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11 Jan, 2007 Starman
“Gratitude is the heart’s memory” states a French proverb, and so it is right that this week I not only say Happy 60th Birthday to David Bowie but...
27 Dec, 2006 Opening The Doors
Yes, finally our tour rehearsals are over, and as the multitude of black cable leads - seemingly like puppet strings set to begin pulling us from city to...
26 Dec, 2006 Lives Forever !
“Dramatic to the end, he even died on Christmas day!” the passing of soul singer James Brown is indeed a landmark to countless music fans who like me...
26 Dec, 2006 Live tour dates
Live tour dates Simple Minds are considering a surprise return to live concerts in Australia and New Zealand early next year. Although as of yet no contracts have been...
22 Dec, 2006 Light Travels Through The World Today
It's my favourite time of the year and not because of Christmas and all that it stands for, but with respect it is more because of the occurrence...
05 Dec, 2006 Our House
Our House As many familiar with Simple Minds history already know Charlie Burchill, Eddie Duffy and I grew up in a housing estate on the south side of Glasgow....
13 Nov, 2006 Ambition
Invariably ambitious people are considered in differing ways. Some view the ambitious as dynamic would be achievers, uneasily deterred and therefore unsatisfied until a challenge is met. Others...
23 Oct, 2006 Risk!
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...
10 Oct, 2006 Murder Ballads So Sweet !
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...
10 Oct, 2006 James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preacher)
James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preacher) Simple Minds - Empires and Dance (1980) I bought it because I heard the song I Travel on an old Radio 1 session and...
12 Sep, 2006 Blues For Buddha
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...