05-02-2006, Academy ,Glasgow, Scotland

 

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Setlist:

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  01. Intro Music / Too Much Television Loop
02. Home
03. Stay Visible
04. East At Easter
05. Up On The Catwalk
06. Love Song
07. See The Lights
08. Big Sleep
09. Colours Fly And Catherine Wheels
10. Hunter And The Hunted
11. Waterfront
12. Stranger
13. A Life Shot In Black And White
14. Someone Somewhere In Summertime
15. Speed Your Love To Me
16. Don't You (Forget About Me)
17. Dolphins
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18. Different World [TAORMINA.ME]
19. Seeing Out The Angel
20. New Gold Dream [01,02,03,04]
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21. Factory
22. Underneath The Ice
23. Alive And Kicking

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Simple Minds, Carling Acedemy, Glasgow

The fact Simple Minds are selling out such generously proportioned venues as the Academy, albeit in their home town, is a sure-fire sign that they're still doing something right. It's close to 30 years on from when Jim and Charlie were in short trousers riding the punk wave at the tender age of 16 apiece and, while looking much rougher around the gills these days, the band are still pulling in a diehard crowd of fans.


Simple Minds were born out of a love for music and playing to an audience; they were born to sing and perform live and the continued whistling and yelping from the trite horde of middle-aged movers, some even with their pre-teen kids in tow, only serves to solidify this love of the immediacy and spontaneity that their live shows produce.

 

With the denim uniform and microphone protruding on the end of an outstretched arm (an instantly recognisable signature stance) Jim Kerr hadn't even drawn breath before the cheers and clapping kick-started an already stirring crowd. His rendition of East of Easter proving hedonistically dangerous as the floor nearly gave way from the mob's stomping. I guess the old saying was never so aptly put upon such individuals, that you can take the men out of Glasgow, Kerr and Burchill now both reside in southern Italy, but the Glasgow boys are still in the soul, wreaking havoc among the lyrics and notes of the music.

 

Maybe it's the Scottish blood or an ideology instilled in them from the bad old days but what strikes you most when watching a band of this magnitude and force is how much hard graft these guys put in and how much they really, bloody love doing it. Here's to the next 30 years.

 

Louisa McEwan
The Herald
6th February 2006

 

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