Simple Minds News

Simple Minds tour promoters are offering free tickets to anyone who turns up for their show in Split, Croatia, wearing a Celtic shirt.

British actress PATSY KENSIT is fuming after thieves broke into her London home and stole the keys to her car.

WIRRAL band OMD and Simple Minds will appear on stage together for the very first time when they perform Kraftwerk's "Neon Lights" on their forthcoming UK tour.

Simple Minds will be joining forces with their 2009 tour special guests OMD , playing a cover version of Kraftwerk 's ' Neon Lights ' with them during the Graffiti Soul shows later in the year.

On Monday's show, Dave spoke to Jim Kerr from Simple Minds . Simple Minds play The O2, Dublin, on 9th December 2009.

As Coldplaying reported last year, Coldplay were guests at Villa Angela in Taormina, residence of Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds.

By popular demand, it's another installment of "Compare And Contrast". Today we're looking at the Slacker 90260005 40 Station/8GB WiFi Radio Player .

Scottish pop-rock band Simple Minds will perform a concert at the Palace Hall in Bucharest, on November 20, organizers D & D East Entertainment announced, as quoted by Mediafax.

Simple Minds are to dedicate one of their biggest hits to late film director John Hughes each night on their tour.

ANYONE who has seen the film A Good Year, starring Russell Crowe , about a financier who inherits a vineyard and decides to relocate there, has, like me, probably yearned for their very own place in the sun.

Best known in the U.S. for their 1985 number one hit "Don't You " from the film #The Breakfast Club, Scotland's Simple Minds evolved from a post-punk art rock band influenced by Roxy Music into a grand, epic-sounding pop band along the lines of U2.

ANYONE who has seen the film A Good Year, starring Russell Crowe , about a financier who inherits a vineyard and decides to relocate there, has, like me, probably yearned for their very own place in the sun.

When I read that director/screen writer John Hughes died on Thursday, I thought of a lot of things: his seminal 1980s movies "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"; how those movies taught me about love and not worrying about fitting in; and how he didn't worry about fitting in on the Hollywood ...

ANYONE who has seen the film A Good Year, starring Russell Crowe , about a financier who inherits a vineyard and decides to relocate there, has, like me, probably yearned for their very own place in the sun.

This is the second solo album from Matchbox 20's singer Rob Thomas. I always knew he could write and perform a serviceable pop-rock song that radio would gobble up but Cradlesong is something of a revelation.

This is the second solo album from Matchbox 20's singer Rob Thomas. I always knew he could write and perform a serviceable pop-rock song that radio would gobble up but Cradlesong is something of a revelation.

On July 27, 2009 new wave band Simple Minds played a concert in Taormina, Sicily, Italy at the Greek Theatre.

ON ARRIVING at Liverpool's Echo Arena, avid Twitterer Jim Kerr sent out a message on the social networking site: "I hope they put strong foundations in the construction of this new venue as traditionally Simple Minds + Liverpool means that walls shake." By the end of the band's frantic two hour set, the foundations of the Liverpool Echo Arena were ...

MUSIC: Celebrating 30 Years live, Simple Minds, above, will be performing songs from their classic album, New Gold Dream, released in 1982, including Promised You a Miracle and Glittering Prize, as well as a greatest hits set at tonight's Summer Pops gig.Echo Arena, tickets 30/35 subject to booking/ handling fee, 0844 8000 400.

Blickling Hall Twenty-five years ago simple minds bought out an album called Sparkle in the Rain which changed their approach to music.