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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Kerr knew he and Charlie Burchill were on to something in 1978. First forming Johnny & The Self-Abusers and playing shows in and around Glasgow throughout 1977, and releasing a single before ...

Simple Minds' seventh album, the worldwide multiplatinum hit Once Upon a Time, will celebrate its 40th anniversary later this year with an expanded five-CD Deluxe Edition. The 1985 LP arrived just ...

Simple Minds: Everything is Possible tells the inspirational story of how a group of working class kids growing up in post-industrial Glasgow dared to dream. Those kids became Simple Minds, one of the ...

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