Tag: Jim Kerr

Stream: Simple Minds, 'Broken Glass Park' — new single off 'Celebrate: The Greatest Hits+'

Stream: Simple Minds, ‘Broken Glass Park’ — new single off ‘Celebrate: The Greatest Hits+’

A brand-new Simple Minds single — “Broken Glass Park,” off the band’s upcoming multidisc set ‘Celebrate — The Greatest Hits+’ — debuted today on BBC Radio 2, and you can hear it now via the BBC’s stream or the radio rip posted below (courtesy YouTube user Dennie Rijnsewijn).

Simple Minds to release 'Celebrate' best-of in March, embark on 28-date U.K. tour

Simple Minds to release ‘Celebrate’ best-of in March, embark on 28-date U.K. tour

After focusing much of this year on performing cuts from the band’s first five albums, Simple Minds next March will release a new best-of collection — featuring two new songs —and then embark on a huge, 28-date greatest-hits tour of the U.K. featuring a career-spanning, two-set show with no opening acts.

Simple Minds prepping 2CD live album culled from this year's ‘5x5 Live' tour

Simple Minds prepping 2CD live album culled from this year’s ‘5×5 Live’ tour

Simple Minds are putting the finishing touches on a live album culled from this year’s “5×5 Live” tour of Europe, which found the band each night performing five songs off of each of its first five albums — ‘Life In A Day,’ ‘Real To Real Cacophony,’ ‘Empires and Dance,’ ‘Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Calling’ and ‘New Gold Dream.’

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr reflects on 30th anniversary of 'New Gold Dream'

Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr reflects on 30th anniversary of ‘New Gold Dream’

Thirty years ago today, Simple Minds released their fifth studio album, ‘New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84),’ considered by many to be the band’s commercial turning point after it hit No. 3 on the U.K. charts on the back of singles such as “Promised You a Miracle,” “Glittering Prize” and “Someone, Somewhere in Summertime.”

Simple Minds enlists Devo, The Church for tour of Australia, New Zealand later this year

Simple Minds enlists Devo, The Church for tour of Australia, New Zealand later this year

Simple Minds today unveiled plans for a nine-date summer tour of Australia and New Zealand at the end of this year that also will feature ’80s-era contemporaries Devo and The Church sharing the bill and will hit a mixture of indoor venues and wineries taking part in the popular A Day on the Green concert series.

Video: 'How the Brits Rocked America' in the '80s, with The Cure, Duran Duran, Police

Video: ‘How the Brits Rocked America’ in the ’80s, with The Cure, Duran Duran, Police

‘We’re the Kids in America,’ the third chapter of BBC Four’s ‘How the Brits Rocked America: Go West,’ features interviews with John Lydon, Robert Smith, Elvis Costello, Jim Kerr, Ian McCulloch, New Order’s Stephen Morris and Peter Hook, Adam Ant, Bob Geldof, Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes and John Taylor, and many more.