20 Apr, 2006 Download News!
Download News! simpleminds.com has got off to a successful start with the launch of our exclusive downloads. The Black and White Live Bundle No1 is only the first of...
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16 Apr, 2006 Europe’s End
And now Greece for what will be the very last concert of this leg of our European Tour. Since we started in January we have driven just over...
13 Apr, 2006 SimpleMinds.com Exclusive
SimpleMinds.com Exclusive In a matter of days from now simpleminds.com will hit a landmark within its four and a half year history when it launches “SIMPLEMINDS.COM EXCLUSIVES”. This new facility...
01 Apr, 2006 Magic Mel Gaynor
My mother - a music fan throughout her life - could always be relied on to give her enthusiastic approval whenever she came across a group that appealed...
20 Mar, 2006 Gone Solo
After a European concert tour that involved almost three months of constant traveling, what do I do with myself during these few free days that I have between...
12 Mar, 2006 Made In Belgrade
It is difficult not to feel exhilarated as I write this and not even a two and a half hour wait in a dismal airport can take away...
08 Mar, 2006 Dont Fade Away
Yesterday we found out that a former work colleague of ours had been found dead in his apartment in Edinburgh. Although it is years since we last saw...
03 Mar, 2006 Hotel Heaven
It would be impossible to consider touring life without mentioning the part that hotels play. Who knows how many hotels that we have stayed in over the years...
03 Mar, 2006 Berlin – New album recording begins!
Berlin - New album recording begins! Charlie Burchill and Jez Coad set up a portable studio earlier this week whilst in Berlin and in doing so officially started up...
15 Feb, 2006 The Times Review, Astoria, London
The Times Review, Simple Minds, Astoria, London. In Italy Simple Minds still sell enough records to keep a tribute band in business. In Britain they remain stadium rockers who...
13 Feb, 2006 STILL GOING STRONG
Simple Minds at Academy, STILL GOING STRONG. THERE was a chorus of adulation from the Academy crowd as a sprightly, denim-clad Jim Kerr walked on stage. It has, after all,...
13 Feb, 2006 Renaissance 13/02/06
Rather like Jim Kerr's beloved Celtic did in the late 1990s, Simple Minds have undergone something of a career renaissance. Rising from the fallow ground of their less impressive...