Who doesn't remember songs like "Don't You Forget About Me", "Promised You A Miracle" or "Alive and Kicking"? Simple Minds are the most successful Scottish band in history - second only to AC/DC - and the cornerstone of post punk at its most epic, and they are here to remind us of it with a live performance that lives up to their legend.
Sixty million records endorse the trajectory of the Scottish Simple Minds, one of the longest-lived and most successful groups among all those born after the British punk boom, although they were actually precursors of the best post punk. Albums like "Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call" (1981), "New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)" (1982) or "Sparkle in the Rain" (1984) cemented the legend of a band that in the mid-eighties rubbed shoulders with U2 at the top of the charts thanks to their expansive, multi-chromatic and slightly epic sense of understanding pop. Jim Kerr's voice and Charlie Burchill's guitar playing have always been their trademark, and they still continue to be so in live performances in which they show a commendable form, facing with full vitality the five decades of uninterrupted career, as shown in the live "New Gold Dream. Live From Paisley Abbey" (2023), their latest album.
They are one of the Valencian bands with the greatest projection among those that emerged in the second half of the 2010s, and they have shown a commendable progression, from those flashes of magnetic post punk, fast and concise, in which traces of Joy Division, Décima Víctima, Ceremonia, The Chameleons or Siouxsie & The Banshees could be found, to the outbreaks of avant-garde electronics of their latest EPs. They made a splendid cameo before, with their own song included, for the TV series "La Ruta", but nobody should think that they are going to stagnate in a soft comfort zone, because the Valencian quintet is restless, music-loving and demanding with themselves, like few recent bands.
