7 Comments

1. Capt. Sketchy says:

   April 15th, 2011 at 8:52 am

   Oh yes. Sadly it all went horribly wrong around the time of ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’, but at their best they were untouchable.
2. Duncan says:

   April 15th, 2011 at 3:32 pm

   I resisted listening to any early Simple Minds for years due to the later years. And even though I knew some of their early stuff was good, I had dismissed them as Magazine-lite. But recently I’ve discovered the joys of Changing, I travel, Theme for great cities, Up on the catwalk, New gold dream…..
3. rick mcginnis says:

   April 17th, 2011 at 12:56 pm

   The air seemed to go out of them after Speed Your Love To Me. I used to do a pretty wicked Jim Kerr impersonation back in the day, with lots of crouching and pointing and that weird little walk across the stage…
4. The Wartime Housewife says:

   April 18th, 2011 at 6:51 pm

   I once bunked off (my positively Victorian boarding) school to see them in Rickmansworth in 1982.
   And they woz indeed good.
5. slackdad says:

   April 28th, 2011 at 6:24 pm

   Ah, boys, where did it all go wrong? Oh yeah, after 1983, that was when…
6. drlaim says:

   April 30th, 2011 at 3:27 pm

   I [and every other 16-21 year old from Falkirk/Grangemouth] saw them around 30 times between the Cacophony album and New Gold Dream. They were magnificent most of the time and had talent in spades but Jimbo’s desire to crack America and mimic the success of U2 fucked it right up. This along with sacking the backbone of the group firstly Brian & then Derek resulted in dire stadium rock pish.
7. damon says:

   August 3rd, 2011 at 8:51 pm

   Re; his dancing, I claim with some authority that hw holds the world bcakwards long jump record around the time of Waterfront, and the get in get out of the rain stuff.