Simple Minds To Play Early Material On New Live Dates

Simple Minds have announced a tour for early next year, on which they’ll play two and half hour sets ‘dedicated solely to their highly acclaimed and hugely influential early albums.’

The band will play five songs from each of their first five albums - ‘Life In A Day’, ‘Real To Real Cacophony’, ‘Empires & Dance’, ‘Sons & Fascination / Sister Feelings Calling’ and ‘New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84)’.

On the sixteen date run, four of the shows will be in the UK: they’ll stop off in Birmingham, Glasgow, London and Manchester. The full tour will call at:

FEBRUARY
14 Coliseum, Lisbon, Portugal
15 Riviera, Madrid, Spain
16 Razzamatazz, Barcelona, Spain
18 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19 Admiralpalast, Berlin, Germany
20 Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
21 Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
23 Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
24 Birmingham Academy
25 Glasgow Barrowland
27 Casino De Paris, France
28 Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
29 Komplex 457, Zurich, Switzerland

MARCH
02 London Roundhouse
03 Manchester Ritz
04 Olympia Theatre, Dublin