The soundscapes you've given us all are such that words can rarely describe. That's what drew me to the band. It must've been so very special to have been a young "Ned" seeing ocean and skies surrounding you. Those grand horizons that influenced you are everywhere in Simple Minds music while you were in the band. "Brass Band" is one of my favorite instrumentals ever and you've found another voice that only you can create. Nothing like it.

Beautiful... thank you Mick. I, for one, feel privileged to have had your music as the soundtrack to my life since the early 80s. "Love Song" still thumps through my chest like a heartbeat every time I hear it. And "New Gold Dream" takes me straight back to the summer of 83-84 in 🇦🇺 when I would lie on my bedroom floor with my dad's huge headphones on listening endlessly in awe. I really feel as Gen X we were blessed with the best music... Also - 0:54 The whistle... "They're gonna jail you for that" 😂

Isn't it great to see people just talking and joking with each other, making conversation instead of staring at their bloody phones😂

When we were young. Keep them coming Mick....

Thank you Mick for doing this. I worked with you guys back in 1987 for several months whilst you were doing Live in the City of Light at Castle Sound Studios. I still remember those days with the minds. Wonderful times, which this brings all back. Thank you for letting us all into that little window in time once again.

Those notes you play inspired us throughout our lives.

Wow, that version of Brass Band....just beautiful. I'd buy that :)

Brilliant, loved travelling around Europe on trains, often to see you perform during the 80's. Great memories indeed.

Mick, you're an absolute star fella, cheers.

I started listening to SM when I was about 8, so that would be about 1984. By listening to Reel to Real and Empires, I was motivated to learn all the wee keyboard parts, so I was lucky enough to get a wee crappy thing that you could only play one key at a time. All these years later I'm still doing music in a big way. And that's mostly to you Mick, for the great music and the inspiration. Thank you 👍

Thank you once again Mick. Much appreciated by me and countless others. There's something completely beautiful about that demo version of A Brass Band In African Chimes. The version that eventually got released is stunning to say the least but it's such a different feeling with just the keyboards. Hope you eventually put up a longer version for us to enjoy?! All the best and stay healthy. ✌️🙏❤️

Absolutely Amazing when they was in there prime once upon a time Tour unfortunately I missed it still plays on my mind especially when seeing 👀 videos like this

Thank you very much,grazie mille,Mick. I,We miss you so much ,Mick. From a Simple Minds fan since 1983.Ciao, greetings from Italy

Did you realise how important these clips would be to us who have taken the great journey with you ..priceless 👊👊✌️✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧

Mick, your piano and synth work was a privilege for us my man! Beautiful videos and overlaid music

it be really nice to see u all back together in simple minds.

Special music...special times. Fantastic memories of some wonderful days...❤

Thank you Mick! Great to see these 'behind the scenes' snippets from mid 80's Simple Minds! I consider myself privileged as well. Privileged that I lived trough those times with your magnificent music. Tunes I love and enjoy still today! So yeah, a big thank you! 🍀🍀🍀

Thanks Mick, what a joy. I spent all my early, mid and late 80's listening to Simple Minds, all the way back to Life in a Day in '79. The instrumental movements you (Jim and Charlie) created were pure genius in every sense of the word. Saw you for the 1st time at the Milton Keynes Bowl '86 Once Upon A Time with The Waterboys supporting, and WOW what a great day. I'm so pleased I've found your channel as I can't wait to watch all of your other Vid8 memories on the road with the boys and Robin Clarke (and what a gorgeous voice she had too). Thanks Mick and all the best 👍👍

You put poetry in everything you do. I love those clips. I see a bunch of young glaswegians conquering the world with music and with humility.

Wow Mick, what a soundtrack to a truly fantastic era. Priveleged to have seen SM on that very tour in their prime, never to be beaten. ❤

Mick, this was beautiful! Hoping you will post more and more including some of your keyboard playing which you did recently with SFY. Your keyboard sound is absolutely iconic to us fans so to hear you play them again is brilliant! Can I request the PyaM outro 1987 version please 👌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌

This means a lot to all the 50-60+yo fans who were all making their journeys out at the same time. Me & my pals travelled from Manchester to Paris in 86 to Zenith for what became the first live album. I was 17 , an apprentice and had never been abroad before. Looking at all them young faces now, my own kids are similar ages

Thanks Mick, pure gold dust! Had the classic SM albums on play all weekend. I really appreciate your gesture of putting out this content. Priceless stuff and happy days!

Mick, thank you so much for the musical contributions to the soundtrack of so many of our lives. You are a keyboard and accordion player unlike any other.

Remember catching sight of the Once apon a time album cover in Woolworths and instantly falling in love with Charlie.

Again many thanks Mick. So kind of you to share these insights.

OMG this makes me cry ! my gods in a simple train, how poetic is this

I can't be the only one who noticed how the train conductor at 0:24 looks like Mick 30 years on. Anyway, this is really fun footage. Thanks, Mick.

What an extraordinary band you were, back then.The interplay between the five of you was something very special indeed. Thank you, for all of it

This is incredible. And to hear that stripped down version of Brass band is wonderful

Fantastic memories mick those were days sir!!. I just wish you boys could get together and do just one more gig

I can only imagine what it must’ve been like on this tour. I’m a younger fan (born in 2006) but I know in 85 and 86 y’all were on fire and at the height of y’all’s popularity.

I saw Simple Minds in Australia…Oct 31, 1986. Turned 16 the next day 😁

Having read Derek's recent book and the insight into the level of ongoing feeling between himself and Kerr its seems a grand reunion is further away than ever . With your good self , Derek, Brian (or big Mel) still fit and well is such a shame one big ego is stopping something that would be magical. To listen to the 81- 84 albums with the original writers , keyboard , drums and bass doing those albums justice live would be something memorable indeed. We can only hope.....if not we have the talented trio of "The Minds" . Hope to hear more from you Mick and these videos are Gold . Many thanks.

Thank you so much for these gifts you keep giving us Mick🎶🎶🎹🎹👍👍

This is so good of you Mick and I’m sure there are many of us looking forward to more insights like this and of course any pieces of music you might add.

Thanks for sharing your recorded memories which is giving us all a glimpse of your past times with the band, and showing us a view of them that's rarely seen. It must be quite nostalgic for you doing this.

Wow. That’s amazing to watch Mick. Memories of the great days and better times. Great to see Robin Clarke. Remember your gig at Milton Keynes 1986 and the whole crowd singing happy birthday to her. One of my favourite ever gigs ❤️

Thanks again Mick for this new upload! It makes me feel very nostalgic. What an incredible atmosphere, and what a beautiful tune it remains. You always brought/bring a special magic, not only in your amazing compositions but also in your footage. I hope many more videos will follow.

Mick!!!! Thanks a lot for this lovely time capsule! That's awesome! And - as always - brilliant tunes! Love it!!!

Thanks Mick, as everyone has said, please keep these coming !

This is brilliant, im sitting here greetin😢 😂, at the footage but Mick the music you chose just does it for me, out of the many instrumentals this nailed it!!! THANKYOU so much for sharing these. X❤

Really great to see these clips thanks! I was encouraged by some friends to "come along and see this band" back in the eighties. Well I went along and my first thought on hearing SM (already playing as we walked in) was - wow, this isn't quite what I expected!

LOVE YOUR SOUND MICK, always inspiring and touching

24 hours ago I was listenng to some of the songs you wrote watching Simple Minds at the Star Casino, Gold Coast Australia. 8th time I have ssen them live. First time back in the UK in 86 at the Wembly Convention Centre then a bit later at MIlton Keynes Bowl. I believe that you may have been there on both occasions 😍

I just saw Simple Minds for the second time last weekend in Australia, the first time was in 2017. Both were fantastic shows, and after watching your nostalgic clips, it makes me wish time travel was possible, back to pre 1985 times to see the original line up. While I was around then, I was just a little nipper learning my ABCs. Was too young to notice.

This is fantastic. Its great to see these wonderful clips of the band relaxing and enjoying themselves. Thank you. And please keep posting!

Wow!! Really beautiful Mick!! Thank you very much!!👍🏻😉🙏🏻❤️😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Mick, love the video and the sounds. Takes me back to the barrowlands when i watched you and Derek intently during each and every song at every gig. I still maintain those barrowlands gigs were the best I've ever been to in my life. Incredible experiences. Thank you.

These are tremendous… so glad to had a video8 back in the day. Gold dust…

Thank you so much for uploading Mick! These clip are great to watch ! Looking forward to the next one.!

awesome - thanks so much for posting , really amazing and takes us back to a different, for me , better time :)

Thank you for these beautiful memories

Very interesting to see Scarecrow being played on the bus in the context of the "sell out" accusations with OUAT. I was happy for the band and so proud of you all when I was watching you walk onstage at the Kaiser Convention center in Oakland. I got to go along for the ride from 81 and watch the crowds grow and grow and while, yes...OUAT was a different album than SITR, it made so much sense given what was on the radio. Why wouldn't you want your record to sound like that? That's what you were hearing, Let's Dance, Born In The USA....they sounded amazing and you got the right team for "the album we wanted". OUAT sounds smashing even today, never tire of it. I sat next to an older couple who had just found Simple Minds and got to hear those great arrangements of Speed, Catwalk, American. Just brilliant.

Thanks Mick.Absolute Legend👌

Thanks Mick for this video!!! I´ll wait the next video.

Fantastic historical documentation ❣️

The music fits perfectly, Mick. Brilliant clips and well put together. I do confess to laughing at the 'Jailed' comment towards Paul lol😂

Thanks, hope there’s more.👍

Mick,do you remember the gigs in the SFX in Dublin in 1984? Curtains closed,"Someone up the likes you" playing on tape,the band gradually take over behind the curtains playing along live to the song,then the curtains opened,life never got any better...

Thanks Mick. Reminds me of the time I lived in Geneva and saw you guys play in Zurich, where you were headed. At end of the 80s met Jim on the street in Lausanne and was so speechless couldn't have a proper conversation with him. Perhaps he was hoping to bump into Bowie who lived up the hill ...

Love this. Charlie seems such a sweet guy. We are the privileged ones Mick. But what a life you have lived and plenty more to live we hope!

Many thanks Mick! Much appreciated ❤

Thank you Mick for these treasured clips 🙏

Hi Mick, thanks so much for sharing these, classic footage, keep em coming. Love to know what Charlies talking about on this one - so cute x

Many thanks, Mick!

These videos are fantastic !!! Thank you so much for sharing them!!! Would be fantastic to see more, brass band in African chimes in the background , awesome!!! You are a legend 😀

I’m a fan and in a fans’ mind, a band this big is unreacheable and are in another dimension or something. But because of these tapes, shots and moments, as a fan I realise that you could be human after all😅. This really is a great way to get in some sort of equal dimension and relive the time again where I had these thoughts and feelings with that unreacheable thing in my mind. Great great stuff. Looking forward to the more to follow! Thanks!!

Gold dust footage. Great stuff, Mick !!! ❤❤❤

Thanks Mick. Amazing.

Lovely Mick! Loved watching it!

❤❤❤ Thank'you !!! Fantastic and beautifull !!! ❤❤❤

Good job mate. Your creative input to the band with your Roland drum machine for demos was extraordinary. Nice how you incorporated "A Brass Band In African Chimes" (my all-time fave Minds track - a b-side no less..lol) into this video montage. Cheers from Ontario, Canada! - GJ

Thanks for sharing 🤠

Many thanks Mick. Kind regards Fred van Engelen

Nice one Mick - good to hear you're going to continue posting these. A rare insight into life on the road and a group of (back then), friends. Love the synth soundtrack too!

Thanks so much Mick…

The good old days 👍

Big THX Mick❤

Beautiful video!!! I loved!!! (one always wants to know a little about what tours are like for artists) Thanks for sharing it!!

Great footage. Nice to see you guys just being yourselves although looked like Jim was having some kind of stroke. Keep the clips coming if you can, awesome to see. Thank you.

behind the scenes its great stuff Mick

Bei tempi ❤❤

Muito massa. Nostalgia pura. Simple Minds sempre. Abraços do Brasil.

Wow, another great day ! Just discovered your videos Mick, it's like a barn find... pure gold. Always thought SM music fitted film, especially the instrumentals. Got shivers when I started to recognize Brass Band in African Chimes. They fit the slo-mo images immaculately. Better than the background noise... 😅 Do you remember how the name for that track came up ? Thanks Mick for the effort you put into this ❤. OUAT was my first tour I attended.

Were the ones that feel privileged to have seen you playing with Simple Minds Mick

Mick I know its been said 100's of times but I honestly can't listen to any album affter SFY. The atmosphericall magic is gone. Even listening to these pads on this post, evokes something musically otherworldly which is the key ingredient to the bands musical prowess.

Wow! Thank you, Mick. Made my day. These are so evocative. Can you date them? Presumably 85/86 European Tour.

Fantastic Mick, finally we get to see what went on between gig’s. Why did you travel by train and not a tour bus ?

I like it with your audio and some talking

WOW!

Paul causing trouble with his whistle. 😂 Love these clips MM have you got any of being in the studio recording?? The Sparkle demos are still some of my favourite today really gives an insight how the songs where put together.

Fab!

For those who haven't seen it, here's Mick playing Belfast Child and Brothers in Arms with Trevor Horn and his band back in 2019: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZeSktRpvMXJm6c.html

Black forest in Germany, Cool 😊

Fab

Lovely stuff👏👏👏 Thanks so much for posting. In the final clip I guess it’s Jim’s brother in the middle. Who is the chap opposite Jim next to the window please?

Mick it's a pleasure to see this. Wondering what your thoughts are on Taylor Swifts "Anti Hero" chorus being almost the same as "Glittering Prize" opening bars? Much respect, Scott.

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