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Simple Minds review – stadium tour polishes 80s hitmakers’ gold dream
Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill preside over an energetic set thrills fans of their chart reign and their post-punk era
Two years ago, Simple Minds’ singer Jim Kerr told the Guardian how, in the early 2000s, the band would drive past stadiums they used to sell out en route to playing a club that wasn’t. Opening the tour in a city Kerr describes from the stage as “mad, but in a good way”, the setlist otherwise draws mostly on 1980s glories but has plenty to delight both fans of Simple Minds ’ chart reign and post-punk era. Big hits include Once Upon a Time, an inevitable Alive and Kicking and Belfast Child, powerfully performed without comment but beneath images of the Troubles.
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