28 February 2025
If you’re in the music business for more than 4 decades like Irish guitar pop heroes SIMPLE MINDS are, you deserve to lay down, sip champagne all day long next to your
pool and count your money.
But Jim Kerr and co just can’t stop the beat.
They have music streaming through their veins
since 1977.
And they keep on touring and touring. The band will be busy again in Europe, but will also fly to the US for their first tour in ages over there. Billed as the ‘Alive & Kicking’ tour they will accompanied by synth-pop veterans Soft Cell and Modern English.
To cement their live vibes on record, a new live album, named LIVE IN THE CITY OF DIAMONDS will hit the streets on April 24. It’s a double one recorded last year at
a huge concert in Amsterdam. More info here.
Kerr: “All we wanted was to be in ‘a great live band’ and to spend our lives taking our music with us around the world. Decades later we still relish that challenge every night on tour. Live In The City of Diamonds captures both the spirit and fever of Simple Minds live at this moment in time.”
A couple of weeks ago they performed their biggest hit Don’t You Forget About Me
(more than 1 billion streams on Spotify) on the American Jimmy Kimmel Live show.