Simple Minds News and Photos

Simple Minds Record Store Day News!

Tue, April 17 2012 2:37pm - Source: The Quietus

As part of their Record Store Day festivities legendary Soho record shop Sister Ray will be welcoming Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds for an in-store signing.

Simple Minds, Roundhouse, review

Thu, March 08 2012 11:34am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Opening with I Travel, a colossus of avant-garde euro-disco off Empires and Dance, they treated us to over two hours of pulsating industrial rhythms and layers of synthesised melodies that, at times, bordered on the ethereal.

Simple Minds, Roundhouse, London, review

Mon, March 05 2012 6:47pm - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Jim Kerr, the vocalist and frontman and Charlie Birchall, the guitarist, the only remaining members from the original line-up are obviously on a quest to ensure their musical legacy is not overshadowed by Simple Minds, the stadium years.

Simple Minds - Roundhouse, London

Mon, March 05 2012 11:02am - Source: The Music Mix

By the mid eighties Scottish band Simple Minds were at the top of their game sales wise.

Simple Minds' Greatest Flicks

Tue, February 28 2012 10:41am - Source: Mojo

Currently touring their "5x5" shows, showcasing their first five albums, and touting an EMI box set of same, trancey Scots alt-rockers-turned-stadium-stompers Simple Minds are featured in this month's MOJO magazine , delving into their distant past, back to a time when the music they made could be described as (should we say this? Oh, go on then) cool.

A Glittering Prize - Jim Kerr Of Simple Minds Interviewed

Tue, February 21 2012 1:58pm - Source: The Quietus

"I think there is definitely with us a faultline between our early work and the MTV years – our 'sellout' years! It was a different attitude and a different band in the early days. As a band we were always keen to move ahead and that meant leaving certain things behind. I think that's the case with any artists with long careers. Everyone moves on. However, we've got new management, a new agent, all of them younger, all of them into Simple Minds but... they prefer the earlier years!"

Simple Minds - X5

Mon, February 13 2012 9:13am - Source: Drowned In Sound

.But it's 2012 now, and Jim Kerr and co's empire has long since fallen into rust, their legacy almost shocking negligible.

Simple Minds - X5

Thu, February 09 2012 5:58pm - Source: BBC Music

To anyone bemoaning Simple Minds' second life as U2 's little stadium-rock brothers, the aficionado would point to their early albums when they were experimentalists, their heads unturned by the US dollar.

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr: 'It's cool for our kids to like us now'

Sat, February 04 2012 1:20pm - Source: NME

Simple Minds Jim Kerr says the band have become cool again, thanks to endorsements from the likes of The Horrors and Manic Street Preachers.

'My kids never came to our gigs .. now they want tickets for all their mates'

Fri, February 03 2012 1:31pm - Source: The Sun - London - UK

"My memories of that day are being blown away that Jack Nicholson introduced us because no one told us until we went on stage and that I was definitely having a bad trouser day.

Simple Minds get boxset treatment

Tue, January 10 2012 11:10am - Source: The Music Mix

To coincide with Simple Minds forthcoming, unique intimate 16-date 5 X 5 European tour, EMI will release a limited edition box set on 13 February.

Simple Minds re-release early catalogue, box set, and tour

Wed, November 23 2011 11:05am - Source: Music-News.com

On February 13, they will be releasing Simple Minds X5, the group's first five albums (Life In A Day, Real To Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Calling and New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)) spread over six discs - with Sons and Fascination and Sister Feelings Calling as separate discs in a gatefold sleeve ' as well as bonus material on each disc including rare and previously unavailable CD, b-sides and remixes..

The Horrors Are Appalled by 'Lazy, Rubbish' Music Journalism

Mon, October 31 2011 5:18pm - Source: Spinner

As the Horrors emerge from their crypt with third full-length Skying in hand, the British five-piece claim they've fallen victim to the international music press.

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr Looks Back in 'Amazement' at 'Breakfast Club' Success

Fri, July 22 2011 6:19pm - Source: Spinner

Jim Kerr, founder and frontman of Simple Minds , recently released his first solo album, ' LostBoy!

Christian Ward: Review: New Horrors Album Exhumes '80s Ghosts

Mon, July 18 2011 10:24am - Source: The Huffington Post - Music

If you're over the age of 35, the new Horrors album ( streaming in full on their website now ) will conjure a Proustian rush of memories.

Simple Minds head to the forest in 2011

Wed, December 01 2010 8:55am - Source: Music-News.com

Simple Minds Announce Forest Dates

Tue, November 30 2010 11:42am - Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

Simple Minds have announced a 'Greatest Hits Forest Tour' for next summer, playing a series of dates in spectacular woodland locations as part of Forestry Commission Live Music.

Simple Minds - I Travel (12" mix)

Wed, September 22 2010 9:03pm - Source: The Beat!

w/ Cage & Aviary, ZNTN, Fromage Disco (exclusive UK appearance), Stephen Hodgen & The Beat! residents plus some very special surprise guests... w/ The Beat! The Beat!