VERONA Mark Salisbury – ‘Melody Maker’ 19th May 1990 (UK) “Verona”, Simple Minds’ first full-length live concert video, is the group’s answer to U2’s “Rattle And Hum”, a 90-minute amalgam of concert footage and behind-the-scenes documentary filmed in a Roman ampthitheatre in Verona, Italy, during the final few days of the band’s “Street Fighting Years”...

Lyceum, London 26th October 1980Terri Sanai – ‘Sounds’ 8th November 1980 (UK) Simple Minds showed how it should be done. They attain the kind of elegant, outlandish falmboyance Wasted Youth and Martin Dance long for, without resorting to the tempting deviations the others use. There’s no sign of visual distractions, the musicians are unobtrusive to...

BELFAST ODESSY ARENA 6TH DECEMBER 2008 Muze, 7th December 2008 (UK) The highly anticipated Simple Minds ’30 Years Live’ tour climaxed last night in Belfast’s Odyssey arena. Although it wasn’t billed as a double headliner tour having Deacon Blue as the special guests made it a very special night for all. In one of the...

  Close The Box Open The Minds Paul Morley – ‘NME’ – January 5th 1980 (UK) Jim Kerr, troubled and thoughtful Glaswegian, lead singer for the Scottish quinet Simple Minds – let’s get the fire in your eyes and the whine in your voice, for a moment let’s lose your unfortunate stammer, and maybe any...

CONFESSIONS OF A SIMPLE MIND Another page in the diary… time to write down something Paul Morley – ‘Blitz’ – July 1987 (UK) More of myself… After two weeks of struggling through scores of interviews for European magazines, putting up with aappalling ignorance and arrogance, after being bothered with such sick idiocies, perhaps here I...