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festival riff


composers
Words And Music: Simple Minds


publisher
© EMI Music Publishing


background
This was the first title for New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84), conceived during jamming sessions at a Fife farmhouse in early 1982.

Charlie said "we pictured it as being something like Kraftwerk, motorway music." In fact, the song does share some riffs with Kraftwerk's Autobahn.

They even recorded the song onto the audio track of a Jean-Michel Jarre video. "It was great watching him doing his concerts in China with "Festival Riff" coming out" - Pet Walsh.




lyrics
The lyrics have not been published