Simple Minds UK Tour 2011

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band that achieved worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s and best known for their #1 worldwide hit single "Don't You (Forget About Me)", from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club and #3 worldwide hit single "Alive and Kicking". Simple Minds has sold more than 40 million albums since 1979.

On 29 November 2010, Simple Minds announced a 'Greatest Hits UK Forest Tour' in summer 2011, playing a series of seven dates from 10 June to 3 July 2011 in woodland locations of England as part of Forestry Commission Live Music. Simple Minds UK Tour details are as follows:

Simple Minds Tour 2011 - Forestry Commission Live Music

Simple Minds to Perform on 10 June 2011

Venue: Bedgebury National Pinetum, Kent
Day: Friday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 11 June 2011

Venue: Thetford Forest, Thetford
Day: Saturday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 17 June 2011

Venue: National Arboretum (Westonbirt Arboretum), Tetbury
Day: Friday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 18 June 2011

Venue: Sherwood Pines Forest Park, Nottingham
Day: Saturday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 24 June 2011

Venue: Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
Day: Friday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 25 June 2011

Venue: Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire
Day: Saturday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds to Perform on 03 Jul 2011
Venue: Delamere Forest, Cheshire
Day: Sunday
Time: 19:00
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Simple Minds Albums (2009 - Present)

Reverting to the Burchill/Kerr/Gaynor/Duffy line-up, Simple Minds recorded a new studio album, Graffiti Soul, which was released on 25 May 2009.On Sunday, 31 May 2009, the album entered the UK Album chart at #10, becoming Simple Minds first album in 14 years to enter the UK Top 10. The album also entered European Top 100 Album chart at #9. The band was expected to play a handful of gigs between October and December 2010[18] but gave only two shows: a mini-concert on 2 October 2010 at the Cash For Kids Ball organised by Radio Clyde at the Hilton in Glasgow, UK and a full-length concert on 10 December, 2010 at the Festhalle in Bern, Switzerland. In early October 2010 Simple Minds completed four weeks in London's Sphere Recording studios during which four songs were recorded and mixed. According to Simple Minds' official web site, two of the tracks might feature in an extensive compilation to be released in early 2011. The two others might be the first tracks for what will eventually become the Simple Minds 16th studio album of original compositions due to be released in 2012.

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Simple Minds Albums (2001 - 2008)

In 2001, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill began working with ex-Primevals multi-instrumentalist Gordon Goudie on a brand new Simple Minds album to be called Cry.In parallel to Cry, Simple Minds also recorded an album of covers called Neon Lights, featuring Simple Minds reinventions of songs from artists including Patti Smith, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk. Of these projects, Neon Lights was the first to be completed and released (later in 2001) to help to build awareness of the returning band.A 2-CD compilation, The Best of Simple Minds, was released soon afterwards to continue to build commercial momentum. Cry itself was eventually released in 2002. Simple Minds once again mended their relationship with Mel Gaynor, recruiting him as tour drummer. In 2004, Simple Minds released a five-CD compilation entitled Silver Box. This mostly comprised previously-unreleased demos, radio & TV sessions and various live recordings from 1979 to 1995, but also included the long-delayed Our Secrets Are the Same.

In 2005, Simple Minds released their fourteenth studio album, Black & White 050505, which generated some of the most positive reviews for a Simple Minds record in many years. Despite the response from some website sources and a few UK tabloid papers the album failed to reignite the chart success. 2007 saw the band's 30th anniversary, and a brief tour of Australia & New Zealand as guests of INXS. Simple Minds played the 90th birthday tribute to Nelson Mandela on 27 June 2008 in London's Hyde Park. The band then undertook a short tour throughout the UK to celebrate their 30th anniversary. During these concerts, the band performed the entire New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) album and showcased songs from their other albums in a two-part concert performance. The original members of Simple Minds worked together for the first time in 27 years when they entered a recording studio in the middle of June 2008.

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Simple Minds - Reimagining & Reorganisations (1996-2000)

Having being released from their contract with Virgin Records, Simple Minds decided to musically reinvent themselves once again, this time reaching back to their Kraftwerk-inspired, early electronic pop days. During the lengthy writing and demoing sessons for the next album, Kerr and Burchill made use of the skills of their original rhythm section, Derek Forbes and Brian McGee, Forbes formally rejoined Simple Minds in July 1996. The band then reunited with Mel Gaynor for studio session in spring 1997. The new album, Neapolis - turned out to be less of a "band" album than expected. The album ultimately charted poorly and received mixed reviews. Kerr and Burchill had continued to demo and originate material by themselves. For the latest sessions, they had shared studio space with a band called Sly Silver Sly. The two writing and recording projects merged to become the sessions for the next Simple Minds album, Our Secrets Are the Same. Having delivered Our Secrets Are the Same to Chrysalis, Simple Minds then found themselves caught up in record company politics while Chrysalis, EMI and other companies attempted to merge with each other. Originally slated for release in late 1999, the album remained unreleased. In 2000, the situation became even more complicated when Our Secrets Are the Same was leaked on the internet.

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Simple Minds Albums (1989-1995)

Simple Minds album Street Fighting Years maintained the band's growing sense of scale but moved away from the American soul and gospel influences of Once Upon a Time in favour of soundtrack atmospherics and a new incorporation of acoustic and folk music-related ingredients. Released in 1989, the album rose to #1 in the UK charts and received glowing praise, including a rare five-star review from Q magazine. However, it received a less positive review in Rolling Stone which criticised the band for what the reviewer considered to be political vacuity.

The band underwent further lineup changes during the recording of Street Fighting Years. Mel Gaynor and John Giblin both contributed to the recording (and, in Giblin's case, to some of the writing) but both men had left the band by the time of the album's release. Reunited with Mel Gaynor, Simple Minds hired Malcolm Foster as the new bass player and expanded the live band again by recruiting three additional touring members. Just before the end of the tour, keyboardist Michael MacNeil announced to the band that he would not be joining them as he needed a break.

Despite opting not to replace MacNeil, Simple Minds continued to record, hiring keyboard players as and where required. In 1991, Simple Minds returned with a much more radio-friendly collection of their political concerns, Real Life. The album reached #2 in the UK, where it also spawned four Top 40 singles. Mel Gaynor left the band in 1992 to pursue session work and other projects. Simple Minds returned again later in 1994. By now the band was officially a duo of Kerr and Burchill. Good News from the Next World was released in 1995 to positive reviews, but weak sales in the U.S. In the UK and Europe, however, the response was much more positive, with the album reaching #2 in the UK and producing the two Top 20 hits "She's a River" and "Hypnotised".

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