Even with a noticeable number of empty seats Friday night at Acrisure Arena, Simple Minds’ performance on their Alive and Kicking tour was anything but bland. The Scottish rock band delivered a ...

Five songs into their set, Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr smiled at the audience and said, after taking a deep breath, “We’re exhausted already!” He was kidding, of course, though it would be ...

When Sparkle in the Rain was released in 1984, it made good on the promise of “Waterfront”, the single which trailed it. This was a new, heftier Simple Minds: a band retooled for stadia. “Someone ...

This past Friday night the legendary Scottish band Simple Minds took a sold-out 9:30 Club crowd through a rousing tour of 30+ years of great music. It was their first show in D.C. in a decade. The ...

They emerged in a spray of lights, imagery from their new “Live in the City of Diamonds” album, a tower behind them. Simple Minds hadn’t set foot in Phoenix since once upon a time, promoting the “Cry” ...

“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was built to be an anthem. Or maybe it was rebuilt to be an anthem. In 1984, songwriter Keith Forsey and director John Hughes pitched Simple Minds on recording Forsey’s ...

Simple Minds performs at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre. (Photo by Donovan Roche/Times of San Diego) It’s not easy to stand out when your lead singer is Jim Kerr. And yet, that’s exactly ...

Simple Minds are the sort of band that everyone knows but less know. Obviously “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” from The Breakfast Club soundtrack, is a single that will outlast Twinkies/roaches/all non ...

Simple Minds is most often categorized and marketed as an ’80s new wave group. Yet, that’s very misleading, since this multiplatinum-selling band is about as straightforward rock ‘n’ roll as it gets, ...

THERE has never been anything small about Simple Minds, and so they have just released a big new album, full of big songs, sweeping strings and soaring solos, and they are embarking upon a stadium ...

Playing increasingly larger venues throughout 1983 had changed Simple Minds. “In places like that, 50,000 people, there’s just no room for subtlety, and there’s no need for it and there’s no want for ...