I swear the bass is always perfect during this era of their music 😌

The golden era of Simple Minds! The Newcastle show is epic too.

The sound from Mick MacNeil on keyboards is awesome, he made Simple Minds big in the 80's. When he left the band in 1990, street fighting years album being his last tour. Jim and Charlie were gutted because they knew they lost the heart of the band, basically they knew he was unreplaceable!. Charlie took 9 years to actually forgive Mick and it shows why when you listen and watch how talented he actually was. Watch his left hand and on timing in Celebrate, constantly throughout the song his repertoire is 100 % perfect as well as using his right hand for additional cords. Today as i listen to Simple Minds they just don't seem to have it like they did back then. Jim and Charlie should restart back over, dump the band members except Mel Gaynor on drums. Bring back Mick MacNeil and Derek Forbes on bass guitar, concentrate on the old style music. I think the die hard fans would be more than welcome to see this happen!!!

i'm a fan on keybards of Mac Neil and bass on Forbes but the elettric guitar of Burchill is fantastic ...

Room é un brano stupendo. In questa esecuzione magistrale diventa un brano epico. Questi sono stati davvero dei Musicisti (M Maiuscola!)

The best period before becoming mainstream.

Che tristezza. Sono vecchio. Anni 80 mi uccidete di malinconico piacere.

I love the "Sons and Fascination tour! It is one of my favorites; especially the song, Sons and Fascination. A good listen each day for a little rev. :) TX for the share!

King is white è spettacularis, Jim's voice amazing 💕 🙌 Derek and MacNeil superb

Man do I love the "big" version of 'Room'

Als Simple Minds Fan der 80er habe ich diese wahnsinnige Energie in den Konzerten immer erleben dürfen..immer wieder traumhafte Improvisationen der Songs..leider viel zu wenig Videos von den Konzerten in den Frühjahren bis zur zur Sparkle in the Rain Tour ....Kultstatus..i love it!

At the peak of their powers! Amazing performance!!

Mitico e stupendo live ..

Fantastic gig. Sounds raw and brilliant, often better than the 'produced' sound on the albums. Takes me back!

Senza Mick e Derek non sono più i Simple Minds.

Room is excellent performed - best version so far- sound Mixer finally found the right knobs -

Cool how they had this yet unreleased version of New Gold Dream and played it as an instrumental intro.

this was the best time because they were still integrating the weird industrial funk stuff into the set whilst introducing New Gold Dream tracks

Spettacolarissimi tempi incredibili!

O, Premonition!!! Haven''t heard this in so long. Tantalizing intro... those baselines! I love, love, love this song. This was their best period. What an awesome concert!

Perfect! That's exactly how my Ma' described Simple Minds as being perfectionists before any show.

The first years where their best as they made such an amazing cool new wave-indie-style art of music. I love this period of them most. This was their best era and it is very underrated. Most people only know "Don´t you" and "Alive and Kickin´".

My favourite gig of theirs to watch on YT. AMAZING. Jim Kerr gives such a mesmerising performance. The band were tight too! Yeah, there's the odd technical problem...but that's what happens. I was 11 years old at the time of this gig, and living in Australia. If I could have a TARDIS to use...I'd go to this gig (and several other early SM gigs). I'd be made up!

I've managed to recorded it on tape at that time...:-) Still awesome!

Awesome live performance. They were really a F... great rock band.

I like how Jim dances ,Derek is big

Definitive version of 'Room'. Go listen again and this time turn it up.

New Gold Dream wasted at the beginning one of their best songs..!

Breathtaking, astonishing and ABSOLUTE SIMPLE MINDS 😍 😍 😍 😍 😍

the best band ever ....number one.....beeeeeeeest..

Wonderful times.

Loving the keyboardist

I absolutely LOVED the Ogletree-driven Minds, their music was running smooth like a motorway. Then Mel Gaynor came on and they released the dogs.

Wow... sometimes i foget how great Bands were when they started.

Love premonition

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

And thankyou Craig for posting!!!

Tout ce que j aime.....qu elle Talent.....👄❤😻👍💯💯💯🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Room is epic

Charlie's Guitar and Jim's voice sounds Soooo good together. I'm still streamlining this Music in 2021! That's how good this Band is. It's amazing how Jim almost sounds American, by adjusting his pronunciation! His singing voice and talking accents are different! He's brilliant!

New Gold Dream.....Best from Simple Minds!!!

Many thanx for uploading! A big Simple Minds fan from Belgium

Would be great if they released a live album of this show or another one with such a fine set list

Great show

Inpresionante los 80

WOW!!!! All of my favoutite songs : I travel, Celebrate, Sweat in Bullet, Love Song and Changeling.... Only one song is missing : This fear of Gods That would made it perfect Best band ever And most sympathical singer EVER thank you Jim Kerr for being one of the musical highlights in my life

...grandes!!

Simple Minds were my 'first' band as a 15 year old. As an adult with a bit more challenging tastes (for instance maybe my favourite ever song is MBV 'to here knows when') I still think that the albums up to and including New Gold Dream are amazing (not the first though). I have always thought Derek Forbes was a great bassist and love his basslines, along with Hooky. With the benefit of age I have come to realise how lame Jim Kerr is. Reminds me of the Frasier episode with Derek Jacobi.

I've seen a lot of great Rockpalast clips, but I've never seen this. Very raw for Simple Minds. Someone compared my band Paint and Copter's song/video Miyako to Simple Minds and I was shocked. Always wanted to cover Premonition. Maybe we will.

Its been pointed out below that the opening tune was not in fact 'ngd' here - so I hereby christen it Rock-Palast-if I could only beam myself back to this moment 0:17

nice !

Geniussssssssss

Sounds so experimental...So cool.....Kids from today would think it is music from nowadays ;-) Only much better......

Great rendition of "Sons and Fascination" track !

Don't forget guys they were young and experimenting

That bass line in 'Changeling' sounds so, so familiar! And this is the first time I'm hearing that song! 😯 *Edit:* I remembered! There's one in this song that sounds almost the same: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pcmbZb142KitgZs.html

Imprecionante el sonido

wow wow thankyou. The percussion is too quiet though

They're 6 mins in here before Jim starts singing.... Full Jim Morrison mode.

I bet the Minds weren't anticipating sounds problems from Micks keys snd then Jims mic yet again " but stuff happens when you tour!

Charlie's Guitar is on Fire on this whole Album! Wow ! Smoking! Where there is Smoke there's Fire! Nobody, but Nobody can sing like Jim Kerr! He's so amazing and he mastered the American English Accent! He's a Genius!

Ca c etais les minds !

The show really starts with 30 frames a second.

instrumental version of New Gold Dream ???

One band...big performance 80 ..kerr burchil forbes mcneil mcgee artist for music new vawe

I think this is the New Gold Dream Tour....wish it was from Sons and Fascination.

Bass

Spectacular performance although sound could have been better ... still with analog synths, it sounded great for live. Interesting instrumental version of New Gold Dream which would not be released for another year in 1983.

The mix is terrible here. Most of the keyboards are almost inaudible.

I can`t hear the the keyboards and drums .

why did you destroy the 4:3 format?

I travel is Ghostdancing

Great early footage with songs from Cacophony and Empires and Dance and unusually with Mike Ogletree on drums. However, the guitar is WAAAYYY too loud at the beginning. The first six minutes is like a soundcheck or rehearsal. Surprised the engineer didn't mix this better on the night. Also, this is possibly one of the last of those gigs where they opted for honest representations of the songs rather than the 8 minute long epic versions which became very fashionable once bands reached the stadium-era. Cannot stand Biko etc going on and on.

wrong aspect ratio

Charlie is far too loud in the mix, if anything should be loud it's the bass . 😊

No doubt this style of Simple Minds stuff went down well with Germans...as allot of I guess was inspired by Germans...from Kraftwerk...to 1920s and 1930s German Art culture and Fashion

should never have sacked Ogletree

The beginning was a bit sketchy

Apologies for the opus but I keep seeing this recurring theme.....this is just one man's opinion. To those turned off by the band going "mainstream", is it a bad thing more people got to hear this band? The progression to me was fairly organic. Remember Brian left because the workload was doing him in. They didn't say "We need a drummer that will take us to number 1 so pack yer bags Brian!!" As they gained popularity they realized certain songs just don't work in big venues (clubs were better for experimental and funky, festivals, arenas required larger sounds, more anthemic tunes)...enter Mel. Not like they said "we need a drummer who will fill arenas", he was presented as a solution to the problems Mike was having in the studio and now they had a funk drummer with a wallop like no other. Bands craft songs to take advantage of the strengths of the musicians and it usually just presents itself naturally. They were also a product of their environment, chance put them in festivals with U2 and they saw how the anthems energized those larger crowds. What were they hearing there and on the radio, music programs? A very big sound. Who was helping U2, Big Country, XTC, Furs and Peter Gabriel make those great sounding albums? Why wouldn't you see if Lillywhite could help you put out the sound you were looking for? Mick's demos already had a larger sound to them and they were trying to get a more live band sound as opposed to the atmospheric precision of NGD. There was also the small problem of people just not buying their records, as good as they are.....still a problem. Reality is reality and record companies are not going to carry you if people won't buy what you're selling, regardless of the word of mouth on how amazing you are on the club circuit. Did they try to satisfy themselves and their growing fan base? Yes, but more on a subconscious level, they make music they like and think/hope others will as well. Nothing wrong with that IMO. Maybe the SM fans who didn't bother to buy the records should assume some responsibility. They were in debt when Virgin took them on. Selling tickets barely put a dent in that kind of debt back then. I bought all their albums the day I heard Love Song in a record store and by fortune, NGD had just come in. Jim will tell you the problem with SITR was that the side 2 songs hadn't been worked through enough. I love that record, all of it. Apparently John Hughes added it to his already impressive SM record collection and the rest is history. They had already written Alive and Kicking when Forsey approached them and they were excited by the sounds of Let's Dance, Scarecrow, Born in the USA, Learning to Crawl. Only natural for that to seep into what they were doing at the time. I respect that they said "Once Upon A Time is the album we wanted" and Iovine/Clearmountain helped them make it. The fact that a lot of crap makes it to the top doesn't mean all successful tunes are crap, just means that record companies know how to market crap sometimes and people are easily swayed/manipulated. I think Once Upon A Time is one of the best sounding albums I've ever heard and I don't think Trevor Horn has ever made a bad sounding album, Real Life is a better album than most realize and GNFTNW is a scorcher. I just learned to accept the past is the past and listen to the albums as their own entity, never disappointed.

They became U2 after Ogletree left which was was a shame

The live sound during lovesong is shocking. The mix is all wrong. Nae soundcheck beforehand.

All these comments on how goo this sounds. The bass is completely out of the mix. It needs to be turned up and Derek Forbes was the best. The vocals are way too loud.

RockPalast was a great name...but indeed this performance is not their best...I skipped every song by

You could say Mick left at the top. They soldiered on but have become a bit of a joke now.

Terrible sound mixing!

This was not a good concert. SM is usually great. Too many tech problems .....

That's when you hire a deaf sound engineer....

I've watched plenty of live videos of Simple Minds, but for me, this has to be one of their worst

Bad mixing, can't listen.

excellent perfomance of the band, terrible mixing.

Simple Minds and Duran Duran used to sound pretty similar.

I think this is all pretty slack and over-egged. I've heard them miles better, even within weeks of this gig. Mind you, I like their second and third albums mainly.

Rather a long lead-in. I fancy the boys are losing their direction.

To be honest, the performances of the first two songs were awful. Love song dragged on, and the keyboard on Changeling and Premonition was wretched. The rest was markedly average. They had much better concerts around this time period.

Simple Minds, later came on stage, he is Jewish.

Jim Kerr, massacre his singing in concert, it's painful, often the public knows his songs better and sings better than him

These boys could barely play. The only proper musician in the band was Mel Gaynor. And as for that entrance! Clothes and hairstyles and endless shit written in the music press were of paramount importance back then.