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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

The Guardian - UK

“Our music teacher would belt us if we didn’t know all the musical signs and notes. She used to play Mussorgsky… so I love ELP’s version of Pictures At An Exhibition”: Simple Minds’ Derek Forbes names his prog heroes

Bassist explains new wave outfit were massive Genesis fans when they started out – and he used to sing the whole of Foxtrot while working as a painter and decorator

Louder

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

The Guardian - UK

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"Hardcore fans always talk to us about the first five albums, the cooler, blurrier, druggy art school ones that no-one bought": why Simple Minds tired of cult status and went for broke

There's a new Simple Minds documentary coming, and it helps explain where things went right and wrong for the Glasgow band

Louder

“My playing was a response to whoever said, ‘Bass should be felt and not heard’. To me, bass should be like warfare!” Derek Forbes, founder member of Simple Minds, on his five best basslines

Derek Forbes was Simple Minds’ bassist from 1978 to 1985. Here he explains how he was inspired by Andy Fraser and Stanley Clarke, why he prefers Precision to Jazz, and the influence of magic mushrooms...

Guitar World

Isle of Wight festival announces all-male headliners for 2024

The Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys and Green Day will all headline next year’s festival

The Independent UK

Chrissie Hynde: ‘I’m more relaxed now. Ageing is like being a pothead again’

The Pretenders frontwoman takes questions from famous fans and Observer readers on her relentless creativity, rethinking her hippy youth, and her cruelty-free farm

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“Look at Kate Bush or Queen: sometimes when you don’t do the norm, that’s what changes the world a little bit” - How Midge Ure finally embraced his prog tendencies

Ultravox’s Vienna and Band Aid might have made his name but Yes, Uriah Heep and ELP figured in his musical education - even if no one noticed

Louder

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Talented Glasgow artist creates stunning miniature of city's iconic Barrowlands

Glasgow visual artist Karen Bones' pint-sized recreation of world-famous Barrowland Ballroom is so highly-detailed we could almost mistake it for the real thing.

Glasgow Live

'Spectacular' Liverpool nightclub loved by celebrities was 'the best in town'

Most celebrities used to "just call in"

Liverpool Echo

The power of music in John Hughes films: ‘When you hear those songs you see those moments’

The director’s movies provided an intense emotive soundtrack to teenagers’ lives. A new box set collects tracks from his best-loved films, by artists such as Simple Minds, the Smiths and OMD

The Guardian - UK

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on finding a creative outlet during lockdown

Their pop-synth sound became emblematic of the 1980s. Scottish band Simple Minds topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with hits like "Don't You Forget About Me" and "Alive and Kicking", selling more than 60 million albums and filling stadiums around the world. Founding member Jim Kerr tells…

France 24

Recalling lost Glasgow music shop McCormack's that helped form countless local bands

Few vanished Glasgow businesses are as fondly recalled as McCormack's, the legendary music shop that had the city hitting all the right notes and helped put together countless local bands.

Glasgow Live

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BBC Radio 2 Live in Leeds line up, travel info, banned items and ticket details

Robbie Williams will be topping the bill at the BBC2 Radio 2 festival at Temple Newsam

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Summer Sessions: All you need to know about upcoming events

The Edinburgh Summer Sessions have returned after a two-year hiatus, with a variety of big name acts set to perform in the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens.

Belfast Live

Simple Minds at Belfast's CHSq: What you need to know before heading to the concert

They are playing Belfast on August 9

Leeds Live

Robbie Williams to headline BBC Radio 2 Live in Leeds

Robbie Williams joins Kaiser Chiefs, Craig David and Elbow on the bill for the Temple Newsam event

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CHSq 2022: Full line-up, stage times, tickets, parking and more

CHsq kicks off in Custom House Square with Madness on August 7

Chronicle Live

From beer to The Masked Singer, six things to enjoy around Newcastle this weekend

Happy weekend - here are six ideas of how to fill your free time between Friday and Sunday

Irish Mirror

Jim Kerr and Simple Minds still a class act 45 years on

'Those first visits over to play in Ireland were genuinely some of the most magical nights for us – ever'

Daily Record

Scottish music legends Simple Minds announce massive show to help Ukraine

The band will play at Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh

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