The Minds in the Shed
In late 2023, my old bandmates, Brian McGee and Derek Forbes, along with John Leckie, our first producer with Simple Minds, made the pilgrimage to my home on Vatersay, Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It wasn't so much Desert Island Discs as Dessert Island and slipped discs!
With the help of a Vatersay Boys drums, (he is now known as Donnie Spielberg) we hobbled our zimmer frames and instruments on a trip down memory lane. It wasn't long before we were flying! We resuscitated old tunes like, In Trance as Mission, 30 Frames a Second and Celebrate got the old juices flowing and the memories fired up. The good, the bad, and the ugly!
We toasted friends we'd lost along the way and healed old wounds, or at least soothed them. In that shed on Vatersay, the years rolled away, as did a few tears.
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Look how happy Mick looks. Really great to see. Thank you Mick, Derek and Brian for making music that has formed such an important part of my life. You are massively appreciated.
🫶🏻Beautiful work, Mick and great to see you gents back together again. This will mean so much to so many (me included)! 👏🏻
With the greatest of respect to the current, touring line up, but you guys together totally nail these songs.
Hi Birthday Mick, loving watching your videos!
Recently dropped my nephew and his mates in town they are all about 28 years old listen to the 80s radio all of a sudden the waterfront came on I turned up the volume the boys were blown away shouting who is that band I told that’s simple minds then I put music played them classic minds they loved it mick and I named the band
Letting bygones be bygones with people that matter to you, and have shared something major with you, is a profound & spirit lifting experience.
Mick, you are the finest keyboard and accordion player - so great to witness this performance. Thank you again.
That was SO good. You guys are utterly revered (and sorely missed!) by the hardcore SM fanbase!
Get the whole band back together guys.. and fill Ibrox Park, Wembley.. .. Cardiff... etc.
Great to see John Leckie with you, arguably one of most significant recording engineers and producers of the last 50 years. Keep at it folks.
Brilliant Mick, the heart of Simple Minds back together. You guys need to tour !
Although I think the current Simple Minds line up is fantastic I'd be first in the queue if you guys got back in 👊
I really hope that you consider taking this "get together" further and make The Minds a touring reality. I know that there would be a huge interest to see you play live. I will be there if you want to make it happen.
I love the fact that you guys are jamming in the Hebrides and as I watch this Jim and Charlie are on a World Tour Down Under! Keep 'um coming Mick!
This is just out of this world and could listen to it all day on repeat! These guys were, and will always be, my Simple Minds dream time. Thanks for sharing Mick!
Wow. Please get a tour going. Please Please Please could you do Book of Brill things. Live version. Sat in the dark countless hours watching it over and over. Keyboards so emotive.
Ah Mick, this is so good. Do we get to see full versions of these tracks? Come on, please!
so great to see, this is what the band have been missing from the 80s
This is fking unreal ❤ So you still have the Korg Mick ! I saw your Jup 4 knocking about few year’s ago but already had one . Regards to Derek - I play bass because of him - I’m 61 but as a teen had the white baggies and white shoes and eventually the pbass
❤️ from 🇺🇸