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Simple Minds

March 2024

  • Throwing shapes …Jim Kerr, of Simple Minds, in full flow at Leeds.

    Simple Minds review – stadium tour polishes 80s hitmakers’ gold dream

    Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill preside over an energetic set thrills fans of their chart reign and their post-punk era

December 2023

  • Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible.

    Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible review – a straightforward portrait of unpretentious rockers

    From their punk origins to their stadium-level success in the Live Aid and Breakfast Club era, this music doc finds the Glasgow band still sweetly and likably down to earth

June 2023

  • Simple Minds in August 1981 (from left): Mick MacNeil, Derek Forbes, Charlie Burchill, Kenny Hyslop and Jim Kerr

    ‘A nuclear reactor of music’: the story of Simple Minds’ classic album Empires and Dance

    Before their 80s megastardom, the band minted a strange vision of European culture and tension that still resonates. They – and superfan James Dean Bradfield from the Manic Street Preachers – reflect on its power

October 2022

  • Jim Kerr

    The Q&A
    Jim Kerr: ‘I spent a night in the cells after climbing the walls of the Russian embassy while tripping on LSD’

    The Simple Minds singer on missing the northern lights, making peace with getting older and a kiss from Springsteen

March 2022

  • Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) in flight and hunting at night.

    Brief letters
    Bat out of belfry most likely a bird

  • Simple Minds Jim Kerr

    ‘A lot of stars are freaks or introverts’: Jim Kerr on Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds

September 2018

  • Rod Stewart performs at the 02 Arena in February 2017.

    My top 10 songs are not Scotland’s but they’re in my heart, they’re in my soul

    Kevin McKenna
    My countrymen’s choice of their favourite Scottish albums weren’t to my taste...

June 2018

  • Orange Juice Posed In London<br>LONDON: Orange Juice posed in London in 1985. L-R Edwyn Collins, Zeke Manyika (Photo by Mike Prior/Redferns)

    'We like a party!' – why is Scottish pop so potent?

    It all started 60 years ago with the line: ‘There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose!’ But is the eccentric spirit that unites Biffy Clyro, Orange Juice and Ivor Cutler dying out in the age of Calvin Harris?

February 2018

  • Simple Minds performing at London Palladium in May 2017.

    Simple Minds review – a jumbo celebration of past and present glories

    A less blokey lineup sounds modern and impressively energised, while Jim Kerr sings with innate confidence

November 2016

  • ‘We thought the song didn’t suit us. We had delusions of being ultra-hip’ … Simple Minds in the 80s.

    How we made
    Simple Minds: how we made Don't You (Forget About Me)

  • Jim Kerr (left) & Charlie Burchill
Simple Minds
London
By David Levene
25/1/12

    The playlist
    Jim Kerr's playlist – Neil Young, Lou Reed, the Dubliners and more

December 2015

  • The sound of middle age … Public Enemy.

    Best culture 2015
    Never mind the polls: the old albums we loved revisiting in 2015

    From Simple Minds to Public Enemy, here are the albums our writers turned to when they’d had enough of new releases

April 2015

  • Jim Kerr of Simple Minds

    Simple Minds review – still the edgy futurists, beneath the stadium style

    Jim Kerr and band dig deep into their back catalogue to pull out fist-pumping anthems and art-rock gems

March 2015

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    Watch new Simple Minds video for Midnight Walking

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    10 of the best
    Simple Minds: 10 of the best

February 2015

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    From Rock's Backpages
    Simple Minds' Jim Kerr: 'I’d rather see De Niro than David Bowie or David Byrne'

    Simple Minds’ album Sparkle in the Rain gets a reissue next month, so let’s revisit a Smash Hits article from September 1982: Jim Kerr’s Glittering Dream – now resurrected courtesy of Rock’s Backpages

October 2014

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    Simple Minds: Big Music review – epic, over the top, and all the better for it

    Simple Minds have pulled off a neat trick – an album as bold as their 80s stadium fillers, and contemporary too, says Lanre Bakare
  • Simple Minds

    Album streams
    Simple Minds - Big Music: Exclusive album stream

    Have a listen to Simple Minds’ first album in five years and let us know your thoughts!
  • The Xperia Access Q Awards

    Q awards: Wilko Johnson receives icon award following battle with cancer

    Dr Feelgood star receives Q icon award, while Kasabian beat Kate Bush to pick up trophy for best act in awards’ 25th year

September 2014

  • Simple Minds

    Music blog
    Simple Minds - Honest Town: video premiere

    Glasgow group are back with some sinister electronics from their new album Big Music. Let us know what you think of their new track
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