Simple Minds, whose “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” topped the American chart in 1985, bring the V Tour to The O2 arena.
Simple Minds, whose “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” topped the American chart in 1985, bring the V Tour to The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Thursday 6 May 2027. Gary Numan joins them as special guest.
Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill have been in the band since 1977, and the tour is named for the fifty years since they formed it in Glasgow. Kerr sings and Burchill plays guitar.
The first three albums sold very little. The fourth, Sons and Fascination, took them into the British top twenty in 1981. New Gold Dream, the year after, turned an art-rock band from the Glasgow suburbs into an arena act, with “Promised You a Miracle” among its singles.
“Don’t You (Forget About Me)” was written for The Breakfast Club. Once Upon a Time followed it to number one in Britain the same year, went three times platinum and carried “Alive and Kicking” and “Sanctify Yourself”.
“Belfast Child” took them back to the top of the British chart in 1989. At The O2, the two founders bring that catalogue to a London arena in the band’s fiftieth year.