end 1995
CD ROM
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The Simple Minds CD ROM is currently being put together by Omnimedia.
It's scheduled for release in the first quarter of next year.
The contents and format are still unknown but it will be released for PC and CD-I machines (and maybe for the
Mac).
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end 1995
shadowlands
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The official Simple Minds Information Service, and its associated fanzine
Shadowlands, has been
discontinued. I received the following letter from them :
Dear Simple Minds fan,
At the request of the management, the Simple Minds Information Service will be terminated in its present
form and the management of Simple Minds are currently exploring opportunities of using the Internet.
They will be publishing details as soon as they have them.
In the meantime, anyone who has recently applied for membership will receive their cheques uncashed. Existing
members will have the unused proportion of their subscription refunded.
All future correspondence for Simple Minds or their management should be sent to the P.O. Box and we will in
turn forward it to the mangement offices in London.
Thank you for your valued support over the past years.
Kind regards,
Shadowlands.
Although Shadowlands was published intermittently, and seemed to be shrinking with every issue,
it was a good little fanzine and I'll miss it.
I've written directly to Clive Banks Ltd (Simple Minds' Management) with details of this Web site plus
information about the mailing list. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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end 1995
derek forbes
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Derek Forbes, one of the original members of the group, and whose
characteristic bass lines and riffs provided the foundations for several of their best earlier songs
(Changeling and Waterfront for instance),
joined the group at their last night in Glasgow (13 Sept 1995).
He only played for two tracks, one of them being
Love Song
and the other was Waterfront.
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end 1995
possible EP
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Actually there was some truth to this rumour. It was intended to put
out And The Band Played On as the
next European single with four new studio tracks!. However,
Virgin thought that the nine month gap between the album's release
and the EP was too long, and so pulled the single.
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19th October 1995
new album
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The waters are being furthur muddied! Now I'm hearing news of two
new albums. One will feature new songs whilst theother will feature new versions of old songs. Whether this
means the group are going to re-record some old classics or get the remixers in is currently uncertain.
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6th October 1995
new album
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The band will be continuing work on the new studio album as soon as the Good News Tour
is completed on November 5th. I'm now hearing release dates of April/May of 1996.
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4th October 1995
new album
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I've now heard rumours that the new album's release date will be around September 1996. It
seems that the number of new songs and their completed status was over estimated.
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Mid 1995
possible live album
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Jim and
Charlie are reportedly to be extremely happy with the Good News Tour
and have already started work on the new studio album.
However, a source who spoke to Jim and Charlie at one of their gigs has reported
that the group are thinking about a live video and perhaps a live
album or EP to be released around Christmas. In fact, the group have already
started shooting!
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Mid 1995
possible EP
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Four tracks are supposedly ready. There were to be released as an EP in September, but that idea has been
abandoned.
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Mid 1995
next tour
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The band will be touring again after the completion of their next studio
album(s). It is rumoured that they will play two sets at these concerts; old
songs and new songs.
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Mid 1995
possible EP
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I've received a mail stating that
Night Music has been selected as the next single in Italy only. Promos
have already started to circulate.
Also an EP is rumoured to be released in September to coincide with the
band's Scotland gigs. I deem this to be likely for the simple reason
that only two singles have been released from
Good News From The Next World so far.
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Mid 1995
new album
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A lot of excitment has been building up recently over the revelations that Simple Minds are
already working on the follow up to
Good News From The Next World.
The expected release date is sometime in December!
The word started to spread in July, both from UK and European contacts. Whilst no formal, or official,
announcement has been made by the band or by Virgin, I keep getting more information from different
people. A source recently told me that some news songs were already recorded and the band were hitting the
studio in October.
There is some evidence to support this rumour. Firstly, U2 created Zooropain six weeks during a gap
in the Zoo TV tour so it's still possible to create an album quickly these days. A quick
look at the
Good News From The Next World
tour dates does present some gaps in the schedule:
19 Dec 1994 - 08 Feb 1995 : Possibly a holiday period.
02 Mar 1995 - 16 Mar 1995 : Gap between US tours.
25 May 1995 - 21 Jun 1995 : Another gap.
30 Jul 1995 - 08 Aug 1995 : Possibly a break or holiday period.
13 Aug 1995 - 03 Sep 1995 : Another unexplained gap.
05 Nov 1995 - : Currently no dates confirmed.
Also note that the album Good News From The Next World
was finished in September 1994, and you have a band with some time on its hands.
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