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....
News Items
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...
04 Sep, 2006 Don’t you forget about The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times September 03, 2006 Don’t you forget about them David Pollock Simple Minds, T on the Fringe, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Monday In the usual scheme of things, any band...
01 Sep, 2006 Overview !
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...
30 Aug, 2006 Simple Minds,T on the Fringe
Simple Minds T on the Fringe Princes Gardens, Edinburgh Monday August 28th 2006 Edinburgh Evening News Reviewed by Duncan Forgan / Tuesday August 29th 2006 Rating: 4 Stars "IS everybody doin' all right?" bellowed Simple...
26 Aug, 2006 DON’T FORGET-THEBIGINTERVIEW
DON’T FORGET THEBIGINTERVIEW www.bigissuescotland.com He’s no longer the firebrand he once was, but Simple Minds’ front man Jim Kerr has left his comfortable house in Sicily to hit the road –...
24 Aug, 2006 DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT US
DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT US Liam Rudden Arts & Entertainment Editor Edinburgh Evening News Thursday August 24, 2006 "WHEN I meet people, and they ask what style of music my band do, I...
22 Aug, 2006 Final Tour Diary !!!!
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 –...