Gig review of Simple Minds when they performed at The Marquee Club, London, Dec 18th, 1980 (what a Christmas present that would have been!). These gigs just sound SSOOO amazing!! I WANT A TIME MACHINE!!! Gah!!
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Earliest gig review for Simple Minds I’ve ever seen. From the Record Mirror (I think) October 28th, 1978. Johnny Waller – you knew a good thing when you saw it, my friend!
Whaaa?! Sounds like a flipping AMAZING gig to me! A review of their gig at the Lyceum on October 26th, 1980. Too many new songs? Whaaat!! They released the album the month previous! Empires And Dance is bloody wonderful! I’d have died to have heard it all like that back then! Get off your high…
Gig Review 17 March 1984 – Record Mirror: Simple Minds – Barrowland Ballroom – 2nd March
As the new CD boxset (and other various formats of release) of Sparkle In The Rain is now imminent, I thought it apt to share a wonderful, positive gig review of the period (no date on the piece, but with the help of the Dream Giver Redux site, I’m guessing it was 2nd March, 1984).After…
Gig Review by Mick Middles: June 1979
A gig review from June, 1979. 4th paragraph in – OUCH!! But *kinda* constructive. If a review can be both bitchingly scathing yet constructive?! I’m not sure you could quite accuse them of “no stage presence” – I found Jim mesmerising from the outset. And obviously he (the reviewer) was not sold by epics like…
Gig Review from 1984 of Tour Du Monde in Music Press
Gig review of the Tour Du Monde (Sparkle In The Rain) from Dec 1983.