It’s already been a long and winding road for Simple Minds, but to their fans’ massive delight, they continue embarking on new journeys. With 40 years of music history behind them, the venerable Scottish band soldiers on, as committed to their craft as ever. Why shouldn’t they? Their last album, 2014’s Big Music, and the just-released Walk Between Worlds, both stand proudly alongside any of their best studio work.
Simple Minds’ live performances remain an intensely emotional musical spectacle, not to be missed. No, they are not an “80s” band surviving solely on past triumphs. Simple Minds still create vital, viscerally potent new music while also celebrating a vast and diverse catalog that stretches back to their debut album, Life in a Day, released in April 1979.