So when the Simple Minds mailing list sent word out yesterday of their upcoming [as in only a few months away! Where they might have room to crow was with the size of these particular venues. The venues do run the gamut between , seats per show. So maybe in terms of tickets sold, they may have a point. But first they have to sell those tickets. The last Roxy Music tour of North America was similarly ambitious but the hard facts were that the promoter overbooked the shows.
Yeah, you and I know that it was Roxy Music β¦icons! Yet it happened. So their promoter had better do their job well. At least the support bands on the bill are variously perfectly chosen and delightfully left field.
I never would have thought of them as a complementary act for someone like Simple Minds, but while they only have one hit in America, it was huge. Their choice shows vision. And having Modern English open for Simple Minds is just damn near perfect! Having seen them live last year, I know they will deliver a great opening set to the show.
So a strong choice, yet one which should shock no one paying attention. So what are the dates, then? I see the closest date to where we live would be Atlanta again. In they were in The Tabernacle; a capacity venue.
The last Minds show was good, but not the sort of transcendence they delivered for me in or especially They they lacked a dedicated keys player last time, splitting the synths between Burchill and Goudy was a misstep to my ears. Now they have a dedicated keyboard player again. But the last album was merely tepid to my ears. But there is another bit of revisiting that they are doing as well to the far away world of Whom they met socially and liked.
