Simple Minds Release New Single/Video "First You Jump"

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have released their new single "First You Jump", and its accompanying music video. 

The song is taken from their forthcoming eighteenth studio album 'Direction of the Heart', which will be out on 21st October.Pre-order the album here.

First You Jump’ is a Kerr-Burchill co-write with Simple Minds’ long-time bassist Ged Grimes, and is a  about the anxiety of the times and how we will rise above them.

The video was filmed in July during the soundcheck for Simple Minds concert in the Ancient Theatre Taormina, Sicily. 

Watch/listen below.

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Simple Minds Announce New LP 'Direction of the Heart', Stream "Vision Thing"

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have announced the release of their new their eighteenth studio album 'Direction of the Heart'.

The follow-up to 2018's Walk Between Worlds will be released on 21st October.Pre-order the album here.

Most of Direction Of The Heart’s tracks were written, created and demoed in Sicily, where both Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill live. Unable to come to the UK because of quarantine rules, the album was recorded at Hamburg’s Chameleon Studios. Here they produced the album, later enlisting Andy Wright (Massive Attack, Echo & The Bunnymen) and Gavin Goldberg (Simply Red, KT Tunstall) for additional production.

Band members, bassist Ged Grimes (who co-wrote two of the new songs, ‘First You Jump’ and ‘Solstice Kiss’), drummer Cherisse Osei and vocalist Sarah Brown joined them on some of the tracks, recording their parts separately in London.

Throughout its nine tracks, Direction of the Heart finds the band at their most confident, anthemic best on an inspired celebration of life, and which manages to perfectly encapsulate the essence of past and present Simple Minds, a band whose reascent over the past 10 years has seen them, once again, capture the magic and critical praise of their early days.

Confident and anthemic, the album is an inspired celebration of life, most evident on lead single ‘Vision Thing’. Guests include Sparks frontman Russel Mael and Ged Grimes collaborator Gary Clark.

Check out the album's tracklist and take a listen to "Vision Thing" below.

Direction of the Heart Tracklist:

1. Vision Thing

2. First You Jump

3. Human Traffic

4. Who Killed Truth?

5. Solstice Kiss

6. Act of Love

7. Natural

8. Planet Zero

9. The Walls Came Down

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Watch: Simple Minds Premiere New Single/Video "For One Night Only"

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have premiered their new single "For One Night Only".

The song is taken from their upcoming new collection '40: The Best Of 1979 - 2019', set to be released on Nov 1st via UMC / Virgin EMI. Pre-order your copy here.

Compiled in conjunction with the band, 40: THE BEST OF presents the very best of Simple Minds extensive catalogue. It is a comprehensive overview of 40 years of one of Britain’s most successful bands, taking in the innovative sheen of Promised You A Miracle and Glittering Prize, the anthemic sweep of Waterfront and Sanctify Yourself, the firebrand strand of Belfast Child and Mandela Day, the colossus that is Don’t You (Forget About Me) and Alive & Kicking, and bringing things right up to date with the inclusion of a new track: a cover of King Creosote’s 2014 Song, For One Night Only.

Watch/listen below.

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New Entry: Simple Minds Unveil New Single "Sense of Discovery"

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have unveiled their new single "Sense of Discovery".

The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Walk Between Worlds', which will be out on the 2nd of February. Pre-order your copy here.

Take a listen below.

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Watch: Simple Minds Share Music Video For New Single "Magic"

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have shared the video for their brand new single "Magic".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming new album 'Walk Between Worlds', which will be out on the 2nd of February. Pre-order your copy here.

Watch the video below.

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Simple Minds Announce New Album 'Walk Between Worlds'

Scottish new wave/rock legends Simple Minds have announced the release of their brand new studio album
'Walk Between Worlds'.

The follow-up to 2014's Big Music is the band's 20th studio album, and will be released on the 2nd of Feb, 2018.

Produced by Simple Minds with Andy Wright and Gavin Goldberg, both of whom worked on Big Music, it is an album of two halves with tracks such as Summer and The Signal And The Noise revisiting the glassy guitars and new wave dance grooves of the post-punk era, and the title track and Barrowland Star both featuring dramatic orchestrations recorded at Abbey Road.

Pre-order the album here, check out the tracklist and a video teaser for the record and the new tour below.

Tracklist:
01. Magic
02. Summer
03. Utopia
04. The Signal And The Noise
05. In Dreams
06. Barrowland Star
07. Walk Between Worlds
08. Sense Of Discovery
09. Silent Kiss
10. Angel Underneath My Skin
11. Dirty Old Town (Live)

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Watch: Simple Minds Drop Music Video For "Midnight Walking"

Scottish new wave/rock band Simple Minds have dropped the video for their latest single "Midnight Walking".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'Big Music', which came out in November last year. Grab your copy here if you haven't already.

The video was directed by Roger Sargent. Watch it below.

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Watch: Simple Minds Unveil Music Video For "Let The Day Begin"

Scottish new wave/rock band Simple Minds have unveiled the video for "Let The Day Begin".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'Big Music', which came out last month (November 3). Grab your copy here if you haven't already.

About the song and the video, the band posted: "We are delighted with all those who responded so enthusiastically when 'we put the call out' to help with the making of LET THE DAY BEGIN clip. Hopefully you all feel as happy with the results as we all do. Written by Michael Been LTDB is a beautiful, pounding, rock song, the kind of tune that inspires, complete with the kind of sound/feel that hopefully gets the listener in the right frame of mind for whatever their day brings to them. No doubt it is going to be a highlight of next year's live shows, meanwhile please enjoy the video."

Check out below.

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Watch: Simple Minds Premiere Music Video For New Single "Honest Town"

Scottish new wave/rock band Simple Minds have premiered the video for their brand new single "Honest Town".

The dark and deep electronic song, is taken from their forthcoming album 'Big Music', their first in five years, which will be out on November 3rd

The video was directed by Giorgio Testi. Check out below.

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Simple Minds To Release New Album 'Big Music' In November

Scottish new wave/rock band Simple Minds have confirmed they will released their brand new album titled 'BIG MUSIC' on November 3rd.

It is the band's first album of new material in over five years, and was made with a wide selection of collaborators, including co-writer Iain Cook (of fellow Glaswegians Chvrches) and producers Steve Osborne, Andy Wright and Steve Hillage, who worked on 1981’s Sons And Fascination / Sister Feelings Call.

It will be available in 3 formats: 

- Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set - 2 x CDs, 1 x DVD, Poster and Booklet in foil-blocked box.

- Limited Edition Double Vinyl - Heavyweight black vinyl in wide spine sleeve with printed inner sleeves.

- Standard CD

They will also embark on a major UK & European tour in 2015, check the dates here. 

Re-visit the video for their recent single "Blindfolded", and the announcement clip below.

The band will release more album previews and videos very soon... 

Watch: Simple Minds Air Music Video For New Single "Blindfolded'

Scottish new wave/rock band Simple Minds have aired the video for their brand new single "Blindfolded".

The song will feature on the band's forthcoming 17th studio album (and their first in 5 years), recently completed in London, and which will be out on November 2014 (tbc).

No further details have been revealed yet, but we will keep you updated.

Take a look at the video below.

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Simple Minds Unveil New Video For "Broken Glass Park"

Simple Minds have unveiled the video for "Broken Glass Park", the first release from the band's definitive collection 'Celebrate - The Greatest Hits +' out now. The song is part of our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

Simple Minds take fans on a journey back to "Broken Glass Park" in this brand new video. Watch it below.

The track is available on iTunes now.

Simple Minds Unveil Lyric Video For New Track "Broken Glass Park"

Simple Minds have unveiled a lyric video for their brand new track "Broken Glass Park", which is included on the band's forthcoming definitive collection 'Celebrate - The Greatest Hits +' out on March 25.

The song has been added to our current playlist www.koolrockradio.com.

Watch/listen "Broken Glass Park below".

Simple Minds Celebrate - Greatest Hits+ can be pre-ordered HERE. 

Simple Minds To Release 'Celebrate - Greatest Hits +'

Simple Minds have announced that they'll be releasing a 2 and 3CD greatest hits collection titled "Celebrate - The Greatest Hits +" on March 25th. Plus, it will feature 2 brand new tracks.

The collection set will be available in two formats: a 2CD version which features 36 songs, spanning 12 albums over 34 years, and a 3CD version which features 50 songs, spanning 13 albums over 36 years, including the band’s interpretation of Patti Smith’s 'Dancing Barefoot' from their 2001 covers album ‘Neon Lights’. Both collections will include two brand new tracks from the band.

Check the tracklist and artwork for the two versions below.

Celebrate – Greatest Hits+ 2CD 

Tracklisting:

CD1: 

1. Life In A Day 

2. Chelsea Girl 

3. Changeling 

4. I Travel 

5. Celebrate 

6. The American 

7. Love Song 

8. Promised You A Miracle 

9. Glittering Prize 

10. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) 

11. Waterfront 

12. Speed Your Love To Me 

13. Up On The Catwalk 

14. Don’t You (Forget About Me) 

15. Alive And Kicking 

16. Sanctify Yourself 

17. All The Things She Said 

18. Ghost Dancing 

CD2: 

1. Belfast Child 

2. This Is Your Land 

3. Kick It In 

4. Let There Be Love 

5. See The Lights 

6. Stand By Love 

7. She’s A River 

8. Hypnotised 

9. Glitterball 

10. War Babies 

11. Space 

12. Cry 

13. Spaceface 

14. Home 

15. Rockets 

16. Stars Will Lead The Way 

17. Blood Diamonds * 

18. Broken Glass Park * 

Greatest Hits+ 3CD plus two sided poster (one side shown in detailed images, the other side is as the Celebrate tour poster) 

Tracklisting:

CD1: 

1.Life In A Day 

2. Chelsea Girl 

3. Changeling 

4. I Travel 

5. Celebrate 

6. The American 

7. Love Song 

8. Sweat In Bullet 

9. Theme From Great Cities 

10. Promised You A Miracle 

11. Glittering Prize 

12. Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) 

13. New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) 

14. Waterfront 

15. Speed Your Love To Me 

16. Up On The Catwalk 

CD2: 

1. Don’t You Forget About Me 

2. Alive And Kicking 

3. Sanctify Yourself 

4. All The Things She Said 

5. Ghost Dancing 

6. Promised You A Miracle (Live) 

7. Belfast Child 

8. Mandela Day 

9. Biko 

10. This Is Your Land 

11. Kick It In 

12. Let It All Come Down 

13. Let There Be Love 

14. See The Lights 

15. Stand By Love 

16. Real Life 

CD3: 

1. She’s A River 

2. Hypnotised 

3. Glitterball 

4. War Babies 

5. Space 

6. Jeweller To The Stars 

7. Dancing Barefoot 

8. Cry 

9. Spaceface 

10. One Step Closer 

11. Home 

12. Stranger 

13. Stay Visible 

14. Rockets 

15. Stars Will Lead The Way 

16. Stagefright 

17. Blood Diamonds * 

18. Broken Glass Park * 

*New 2013 track 

Release date 25th March 2013

Simple Minds Celebrate - Greatest Hits+ can be pre-ordered HERE. 

Simple Minds To Release '5X5 Live' Album

Following the universal acclaim earlier this year for Simple Minds' landmark 5 X 5 shows and the accompanying X5 box set, EMI will release a double live album of the tour on November 19th . 

The double-CD live album, features five songs from each of the band's first five albums plus bonus tracks. The tour, which took place between 14th February and 4th March, saw the band playing sets that included songs from the albums: Life In A Day, Real To Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance, Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call and New Gold Dream (81, 82, 83, 84), all of which were released in a prolific period from 1979 to 1982.

The 5X5 Live set, will be packaged in a clamshell box with a 24-page booklet and a 25" x 25" tour poster. A presale will be available on simpleminds.com soon.

The tracklist is as follows:

CD1:

1. Intro
2. I Travel
3. Thirty Frames A Second
4. Today I Died Again
5. Celebrate
6. Life In A Day
7. Calling Your Name
8. Scar
9. King Is White And In The Crowd
10. Hunter And The Hunted
11. Wasteland
12. Love Song
13. This Fear Of Gods
14. Pleasantly Disturbed
15. Room

CD2:

1. The American
2. 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall
3. In Trance As Mission
4. Sons And Fascination
5. Sweat In Bullet
6. Changeling
7. Factory
8. Big Sleep
9. Premonition
10. Promised You A Miracle
11. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
12. Theme For Great Cities
13. Glittering Prize
14. Someone
15. Chelsea Girl
16. New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)