Simple Minds announce new live album and huge summer 2025 UK tour

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Simple Minds have announced a new live album, ahead of their huge UK and Ireland tour this summer. Find all the details below.The Scottish band are due to release ‘Live In The City Of Diamonds’ on April 24 (pre-order/pre-save here).

It captures a career-spanning sold-out concert at the Ziggo Dome arena in Amsterdam on April 6, 2024.Fans will be able to own the collection in the following physical formats:2 x CD Media Book: features 24 tracks and a 24-page book including exclusive photos and tour notes written by Jim Kerr.Double black vinyl: 18-tracks, housed in gatefold sleeve with hi-spec finish.Specialist Retail Exclusive Vinyl: Double clear / glitter vinyl housed in gatefold sleeve with hi-spec finish.

The new album Live in The City of Diamonds, out April 25th 2025. Listen to the first track ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)' now.https://t.co/u16t8VqPYz pic.twitter.com/Tu9igEFqZ7— Simple Minds (@simplemindscom) February 21, 2025The forthcoming album boasts live renditions of Simple Minds’ 1985 hit single ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’, early tracks like ‘Love Song’, ‘Sons And Fascination’ and ‘Sweat In Bullet’, as well as cuts from the group’s era-defining 1982 album ‘New Gold Dream’.Additionally, there is material from the band’s 1985 album ‘Once Upon A Time’, their 1989 Number One single ‘Belfast Child’ and songs from their 1991 LP ‘Real Life’ – including fan-favourite ‘See The Lights’.To preview ‘Live In The City Of Diamonds’, Simple Minds have shared their performance of ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ online.

Listen above.CD11. ‘Waterfront’2. ‘Love Song’3. ‘Sons And Fascination’4. ‘Sweat In Bullet’5. ‘This Fear Of Gods’6. ‘Let There Be Love’7. ‘She’s A River’8. ‘Once Upon A Time’9. ‘Glittering Prize’ 10. ‘New Gold Dream’.