Simple Minds X5 tour

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Somebody tell me that caught this, it didn't come to North America due to "lack of interest" said Kerr

The set list makes me weep

Intro

I travel

Thirty frames a second

Today I died again :eek:

Calling your name

Scar

Life in a day

Hunter and the hunted

Premonition

Wasteland

Love song

Pleasantly disturbed

Room :eek:

The American

In trance as m*****n :lol:

70 cities as love brings the fall

Celebrate

Changeling :eek:

Factory

This fear of Gods *faints*

Promised you a miracle

Someone somewhere (in summertime)

Theme for great cities

Someone

Chelsea girl

Glittering prize

New gold dream (81,82,83,84)


Wow just wow two and half hours of kick ass music, I would pay $60 for a show on that tour :notworthy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... h9Fh9pC7M8

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNrBN_1x ... re=related

Read they tried tried to get the ex members back but it went nowhere due
to $$$

Also read the shows were recorded for possible release
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spot778 wrote:Somebody tell me that caught this, it didn't come to North America due to "lack of interest" said Kerr

The set list makes me weep


Read they tried tried to get the ex members back but it went nowhere due
to $$$

Also read the shows were recorded for possible release
Yeah, it really was ace... I went after getting lucky and getting some tickets off Gumtree and definitely don't regret it for one minute... it was the kind of gig I never thought I'd see... Jim Kerr restrained his stadium histrionics enough to make it a pretty impressive performance.. Setlist was phenomenal n'all.. I also managed to get away with one of Mel's drum skins and a setlist that I got Jim and Charlie to sign at Sister Ray on Record Shop Day a few weeks ago.. :D

Not sure about the ex-members thing though, from what I've heard there's a lot of bad blood between Burchill & kerr and Forbes and McGee and the others are playing under the X-SM brandname on their own accord (they did release a version of the American that's not quite up to it IMO..)

The rumour I heard (not sure how kosher) was that they were looking to work with Steve Hillage again.. now that would be very interesting...
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yeah, i know a few people that caught the uk shows and all of them have said it was amazing :o

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Doktor Gott wrote:
spot778 wrote:Somebody tell me that caught this, it didn't come to North America due to "lack of interest" said Kerr

The set list makes me weep


Read they tried tried to get the ex members back but it went nowhere due
to $$$

Also read the shows were recorded for possible release
Yeah, it really was ace... I went after getting lucky and getting some tickets off Gumtree and definitely don't regret it for one minute... it was the kind of gig I never thought I'd see... Jim Kerr restrained his stadium histrionics enough to make it a pretty impressive performance.. Setlist was phenomenal n'all.. I also managed to get away with one of Mel's drum skins and a setlist that I got Jim and Charlie to sign at Sister Ray on Record Shop Day a few weeks ago.. :D

Not sure about the ex-members thing though, from what I've heard there's a lot of bad blood between Burchill & kerr and Forbes and McGee and the others are playing under the X-SM brandname on their own accord (they did release a version of the American that's not quite up to it IMO..)

The rumour I heard (not sure how kosher) was that they were looking to work with Steve Hillage again.. now that would be very interesting...
You lucky, lucky git :notworthy:

I was aware of the bad blood, I read about the "negotiations" such as it was in last month's Mojo I think.

Kinda surprised Kerr would have an issue with them as he pretty disowned the early catalogue for the longest time but whatever.

Now just release this on blu-ray so I can annoy the neighbours ;D
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Wot no 'Belfast Child'? :urff: :lol:
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I was in their show in Madrid a couple of mouths ago and it was superb!!!

I taped the show so if you want it,give me a pm
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Oh man, after listening to that and the one from Dublin that's floating around I'm even more :(

What ticks me off is I had $4K to burn in Jan and had I known if would have been this set list I would have packed my bags and flown across the pond for this.

I didn't because the info I had was they would play just 5 songs from the 5 albums during the tour like a medley or something and then the usual ... stuff :roll:

Dammit :x

dtsom: Your gig sounded like I was sitting in your lap . I mean that in a good way :lol:
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Playing T In The Park next month! Polishing my dad dancing for that.

Bought the box set and played them back to back, makes you weep when you realise how f-cking good they were to how f-cking crap they became.

The 'Sparkle In the Rain' tour was one of my first gigs, £3.50 if I remember!

As my final laugh, I've picked 'Someone Somewhere ..' as the last of my three cremation songs. 'Stay, I'm burning slow...'
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