Simple Minds

Scottish art rockers turned stadium fillers Simple Minds are set to head to Wales to record their first album by the original line up in over 25 years, it has been announced.

The band began in Glasgow as a punk group called Johnny & The Self Abusers, before becoming Simple Minds as the 80s dawned. Going through numerous stylistic changes, the band eventually became one of the pre-eminent art rock bands in the UK, blending post punk sounds with Krautrock grooves. A further move towards stadium filling anthemic rock brought the band worldwide success, before internal disagreement kept the band on the sidelines for much of the 90s.

Last year the classic line up of the group got together for their first rehearsal in 25 years, and that same line up will now head to Wales to record some brand new material. Produced by Jez Coad, the band are using the same Rockfield studio they visited in the their mid 80s hey day.

Legendary mixer Bob Clearmountain will then take the tapes to Los Angeles where they will be mixed in his own Mix This studios.

The new Simple Minds album is set to be released sometime next year.

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