Simple Minds

What a week. Rehearsals, a photoshoot, a few radio interviews, and one night under Stirling Castle with the lot of you. Thank you, Scotland. Next year we celebrate fifty. Together. BBC Radio 2 in the... Park was a moment we’ll never forget

Film by: Trent Barboza (@indietrent)

MINDS DIVA! "Diva" traces back to the Latin diva, feminine of divus — "divine, godlike." Italian opera culture picked it up in the 19th century for a celebrated female singer, a... "goddess" of the stage — someone whose talent set her apart, almost otherworldly."

Not many can make me break down and laugh as @sarahbrownvocal does, but it's the VOICE I want to mention. Her voice!

Before blessing SM with her talents, I had witnessed Miss Brown singing backing with Roxy Music, Duran Duran, Simply Red - and could not for the life of me understand how for someone so especially great - very few seemingly knew her name?

From the moment she began with SM I decided to change that.
Surely you'll agree that if ever someone deserves a spotlight... Sarah Brown does.

Jim Kerr : Villa Angela: Taormina: Sicily

sarahbrownofficial website

Simple Minds’ triumphant show in Stirling last Sunday for @bbcradio2 in the Park! Watch the full performance on BBC iPlayer.

Simple Minds return to the UK in Spring 2027 for the V Tour, ...tickets are on sale now at the link in bio.

Simple Minds are excited to share that ‘Beginner Boys’, the lead single from their upcoming album ‘Sacrosanct’, has been announced as @bbcradio2’s Record Of The Week.

THANK YOU TO DEACON BLUE'S RICK ROSS who posted: "On Sunday there at Radio 2 In The Park I once more caught up with Simple Minds. It’s a few years since we last shared a stage and over ...the years the band, and in particular, Jim Kerr, have become good friends. For that reason, what I’m about to say isn’t going to be detached or neutral in any way.

But I need to tell you, if you haven’t already discovered this, that Simple Minds on Sunday night were dealing aces. Watching them later on it reminded me of a day back in the 90’s when we’d played a big festival supporting Van Morrison. We’d come off the stage feeling quite cocky that we’d delivered a pretty good performance. We had. However, it was nowhere close to the performance Van summoned up that night.
Similarly on Sunday we did what we wanted to do, but watching my old friends tear it all up I realised there is always, always another level.

The band are in great shape with our dear friend Ged Grimes locking down the bass end brilliantly and, as ever, Charlie Burchill bringing in these sweeping, thrilling guitar lines that shimmer and sparkle. But any band can’t exist without a band leader and folks, Jim Kerr is the band leader any band would want.

You can’t stop watching and you certainly can’t stop listening. Do yourself a favour and book to see them when they tour next year. And, if you haven’t yet caught up, find that set on the iPlayer and you’ll find I’m not wrong. Thank you guys for proving to another old troubadour that there is always something new to learn. Simple Minds? Every day is a school day."

Ricky Ross & Deacon Blue 'Raintown' on iPlayer & Youtube

To celebrate #NationalAlbumDay, Simple Minds’ 1989 album ‘Street Fighting Years’ will release as a limited-edition 2LP on Green Transparent vinyl.

The chart-topping album, featuring ...the No. 1 single ‘Belfast Child’ as well as hits ‘This Is Your Land’ and ‘Kick It In’, is pressed on coloured vinyl for the first time for the @albumdayuk Icons and Inspirations theme.

Releases on October 17th, pre-order now at the link in bio.

SERVICE! The performance eats whatever you feed it... You walk out and the crowd tells you inside ten seconds what it is feeling tonight.
Whether it's rabid or polite. Whether it came for ...the hits or something much more. It also lets you know whether the back of the venue is already with you or still waiting to be convinced.

In turn you adjust to whatever those signals might be.
You are there to be of service to the crowd. And so, at the same time while you might want it to appear that you are somehow able to defy gravity by flying high with the music - you should also want to give enough indications of your true self.

All done so that they'll remember that regular people are up there on-stage. People with the same dreams, anxieties, vulnerabilities that all us humans have.

Jim Kerr : Villa Angela: Taormina : Sicily

Pic Trent Barboza

See Simple Minds Live in 2027
https://www.simpleminds.com/

Simple Minds - Beginner Boys (Official Video) on Youtube

Assai Records will be releasing a limited edition Japanese-inspired Obi Strip green and black inkplosion coloured vinyl of ‘Sacrosanct’, signed by Simple Minds.

Pre-order now at ...assai.co.uk.

STIRLING: From the days of our youth, we put heart and soul into a dream. A dream that across five decades, through both success and failure, has survived fame, criticism, heartbreak, and yet ...somehow found, again and again, a way to reinvent itself.

Fifty years is a long time. No doubt about it. So, you'd think by now we'd have seen it all. Felt it all? Not so however.

Stirling, last Sunday night. And over the days since - we find ourselves overwhelmed by the love shown to Simple Minds. By the response to a performance, we still strive to improve on - with much more of that to come when we return to tour the UK in Spring 2027.

For now though, it's a huge thanks! To everyone who was there in Stirling. To BBC Radio 2 for the opportunity to do what we love doing. And to everyone who's posted their support and encouragement for Simple Minds... We feel all of it. We appreciate it immensely.

Jim Kerr: Villa Angela: Taormina: Sicily

Tickets via link in bio.

Last night was incredible. Thank you all for sharing the evening with us!

Photos: Trent Barboza

SMILE. It's the smiles on the faces of Jim Kerr and @cherissedrums that say it all. After a year hiatus from touring, Simple Minds were thrilled to be back together and preparing for what they ...do best ... performing live.

Last night's triumphant show for BBC Radio 2 in Stirling, Scotland, proved again Simple Minds undiminished power as one of the world's great live music acts.

Don't miss out on seeing them live next year when Simple Minds tour extensively in celebration of the band's 50 year history.

Tickets via link in bio.
pic Trent Barboza

Last run-through before Stirling. See you all tomorrow!