With a new best-of set due sometime early next year, Simple Minds on Monday announced plans for a unique summer trek across Great Britain: the seven-date “Greatest Hits U.K. Forest Tour,” which is exactly what it sounds like — a “series of dates in spectacular woodlands locations.”
The tour, part of the U.K.’s Forestry Commission Live Music series, opens June 10 at the Bedgebury National Pinetum & Forest near Kent and wraps up on July 3 at Delamere Forest near Cheshire (see full dates below). According to the band’s website, “Money generated by Forestry Commission Live Music ticket sales is spent directly on the nation’s woodlands, benefiting everything from butterflies to mountain bikers.”
Of the dates, frontman Jim Kerr said, “We’ve never done the forest gigs before so we are really looking forward to performing in such beautiful places.”
Earlier this fall, Simple Minds hit the studio to record a batch of new tracks — including a newly completed version of New Gold Dream-era castoff “In Every Heaven” — that are earmarked for both “an extensive compilation” due out in early 2011 and what eventually will become the band’s 16th studio album.
See Simple Minds’ tour dates after the jump…
Simple Minds ‘Greatest Hits U.K. Forest Tour’ dates:
June 10: Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest, Nr Goudhurst, Kent, UK
June 11: Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk, UK
June 17: Westonbirt Arboretum, Nr Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK
June 18: Sherwood Pines Forest Park, Nr Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, UK
June 24: Dalby Forest, Nr Pickering, North Yorks, UK
June 25: Cannock Chase Forest, Nr Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK
July 3: Delamere Forest, Delamere, Cheshire, UK
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I’m so tired of reading about all these Simple Minds UK/Europe dates all the time, but not ONE mention of coming to the US…..what’s up?
That would be awesome to experience.
We have forests in Australia you can use Jim. You and you band are welcome anythime
AS for touring the US/CDA Kerr apparently wants the same $ guarantees he gets in Germany,France, Holland and Italy… ain’t gonna happen. There ( Simple Minds) expectations far exceed what any promoter in their right mind would be willing to put up. IN North America they would probably to ok on Casino Circuit ..but from what I’ve heard JK’s ego disagrees…..