May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
Three days until the New Gold Dream box set hits, so here’s another awesome live performance of a track from the album in anticipation. Jim is in full “Anthony Perkins” mode here. Love the lighting on this and how it makes him look like some pale, majestic, new wave prince. Just…beautiful! The whole shebang! https://youtu.be/9XT0wHEJyDM
Brilliantly recorded gig from the New Gold Dream tour…
Well, you know my feelings on the Celebrate video from this same appearance…but the Premonition video is just as wonderful to watch. As far as the serious musical critique goes…it is a *weaker* performance of the song than others I’ve seen. I put the word weaker in asterisks because it probably isn’t the right word…and…
OMG! This is sssoooo good! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Appalling quality audio and video but I love the live early stuff. The energy is not lost and Jim is wonderfully mesmerising, as ever :-))
Listening to another live gig tonight. Sounding like a good one so far. Look at that date! What a Christmas present!!!
Absolutely everything I love about early Simple Minds all here in one little dynamic live set. They were just ‘ON’ from the get go! Amazing young musicians in Derek Forbes, Mick MacNeil and Brian McGee – not forgetting two stalwarts of Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr – what a frontman he is! Yes, biased, I…
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Simple Minds – I Travel Killer version – still fresh some 35 years down the line. Love it! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
‘Full concert – Rockpalast, Cologne, 1982’ by Simple MindsI wanted to choose Sons And Fascination from this gig, but it isn’t available on its own (at around the 1hr 2min mark if you want to cut straight to it)…so I thought “Bugger it! I’ll put the whole thing up.” It’s a favourite early gig. I…
Going to see Simple Minds at this festival!! They’ll be headlining on Saturday, September 12th. O: TO THE M: TO THE G! I’m going to see them THREE TIMES IN A YEAR! And in all the different settings… Small venue Outdoor festival Arena venue :-)) Boomerang Hickstead