Just a very quick post here (SPOILER ALERT: I’ll be discussing the current setlist on the tour and a new song appearing on it – do not click to read this post if you don’t want to know about it.) about the newest addition to the setlist.
Firstly: Jim is tempting me into giving the current setlist situation a solid 10/10 because it has truly been diverse in a way I have never experienced in my 34 gig-going experiences with Simple Minds since 2015. I just can’t though, because I’m pedantic and can’t get past the big problem I see with Sanctify Yourself. IT NEEDS A REST! (I’ll keep saying it!)
Having said that, if there was ever a tour I needed to be Lozzy Nine-Gigs, it’s THIS tour. Jeez-o! It’s nearly flipping killing me I can’t go to any more SM gigs this year!
So, now comes the SPOILER (in case you didn’t read properly what I said at the top of this post, read it again!). In Amsterdam, there was a song performed at the soundcheck that afternoon. A song from the same album as Alive and Kicking and tired old Sannyfy (that would, frankly, be a fantastic REPLACEMENT for the old girl). Yesterday in Copenhagen, my friend Gina messaged me to say she could hear them practicing it in the pre-soundcheck soundcheck (yes….the band SOUNDCHECK before the “show” soundcheck, and Gina and I are starting to have quite the in-joke about that). It wasn’t performed at the “show” soundcheck so I said to her it’s guaranteed to be played during the gig proper last night. And, by heck, it was! Still with a wee teething problem (don’t forget, I’m a pedantic fucker). It’s a great showcase track for Cherisse and Erik especially and a good bit of flare for Charlie to flash off as well to be honest.
Last night, Come A Long Way had a long, welcome return to the setlist. She’s had a long, long rest! (Something a certain other song could do with having, IMHO…even just a short one.)
So….while I still have my niggles about one other song in particular refusing to budge off the setlist, I have to credit…well, perhaps it is all down to Charlie stamping his ground with this? I’m sure CB is much more keen to mix things up than old Crabby Bum Kerr is. Lol. I could be wrong *shrugs* – but whosever decision it has been to give the setlist a TRUE shakeup – I SALUTE YOU!
I am going to put two video links here. One for Come A Long Way being performed at Copenhagen last night. And one of the song that made me cry my eyes out when I watched the clip – that of Sons and Fascination being performed in Bournemouth (although there is a clip on YT of it being performed in Glasgow, but I haven’t watched that clip yet).
I can’t tell you how much I wish I was going to more gigs but it just isn’t possible and I keep on having to tell myself I have been incredibly fortunate to have seen Simple Minds as many times as I have over the past nine years. A total of 34 gigs in the space of nine years is nothing to be sneezed at!
Anyway, enjoy the clips! And for those of you heading to see them over the next couple of weeks, take it all in, soak it all up, and have a blast!
The Come A Long Way video is viewable only via YouTube directly so click HERE to view it.
Sadly, the same applies to Sons and Fascination also – so click HERE to view that one.
P.S. Can we come up with some other superlatives than the stock choice of “the band are on fire”? If I hear/read this one more time I swear! Come on, people! Have some creativity, will you! FFS!