Simple Minds - Musicians Club, Sydney, 3rd December 1981 (FM Broadcast)

Recorded at the Musicians Club, Sydney, 3rd December 1981.
There was a bit of trouble with the sound during the first song but after a few minutes fixing things out the band got under way again!
Many thanks to Mike for this recording! 👍
Songs are:
01. Intro / Sons And Fascination
02. Changeling
03. Thirty Frames A Second
04. Premonition
05. Sweat In Bullet
06. I Travel
07. Celebrate
08. Love Song
09. The American
10. Room (includes Rock & Roll)
Photo of the band in Australia, late 1981 by anonymous.

[@CatoMinor]

The powerful and magnificent basslines of Derek Forbes are worth the whole concert.

[@cosmosynthesizer]

I miss (t)his bass sooooo much! Brilliant.

[@flugsven]

@@cosmosynthesizer I stopped listening to them when he left. It wasn't just the mesmerizing bass, the songs, the sound were suddenly off.

[@hemzsy]

The best period of SM with Derek Forbes! Celebrate!

[@quentinstewart921]

This recording was released on a Japanese produced album called 'Theme for a Great City'

[@mjemdl]

Goosebumps!!!!! Now i know again why i had their name on my schoolbag! hahaha Derek Forbes almost pulling off the strings of his bass in "the American"

[@kramerbassplayer]

They sound amazing....Derek Forbes is the heart of this band...they play around him

[@brucefindlay]

It was hot, very hot, it was packed, it was amazing....The crowd were so up for it, thank you JJJ....A fabulous first tour of the great southern land. We loved it and couldn't wait to come back....and did the very next year !

[@ArtAndTalk]

@Bruce Findlay wonderful memories there Bruce! Summertime in Australia. Not a bad place to be in December! There's a great picture of you and the band when you were receiving your first Gold Discs for the New Gold Dream album in Sydney '82. I used it for the upload of the Manly Vale Hotel gig. You all look so happy and young!! All the best Bruce!

[@brucefindlay]

@@ArtAndTalk Great memories indeed....We really did fall in love with Australia and the people...We were young and happy then ( I was actually closer to 40 than 30 mind you...but the band were all in their early 20s)...still happy, just not so young. Hope you are well and certainly Australia seems to be coping so much better than the UK with #covid19. I loved the Manly Vale gigs...Jim and I went to see Echo and The Bunnymen on a night off on our first tour...brilliant. I ❤Australia.

[@ArtAndTalk]

@Bruce Findlay more great memories! Great stuff! I'm sure all the fans will enjoy reading your posts on here. I know I do. I'm fine thanks and yes the Aussies are doing better with the virus than us. Like most countries seem to! God bless the scientists for the vaccines, no thanks to politicians. One of my last memories of the Barrowland in the 80s was Echo and the Bunnymen. Christmas time '85. Amazing band live. Macca is something else. Remind me of The Doors! Bye the way 40 is young now that I'm in my 50s. Ha-ha! 😉👍🙏

[@greymouser8659]

Thanks for sharing. Was at the Canberra gig...met up with the band at nightclub after. Great bunch, great night.

[@lawrenceomond7341]

Spent many a Saturday afternoon in Bruce's Records.A badge of honour going home with a "I found it at Bruces" bag. I emigrated to Australia i Feb 82 Simple Minds got me through my home sickness!

[@essaifaune2]

Very good sound, it's a big step back in another time!! before they turn to stadium-soft-pop band... I love your zoom effects synchro to the beat / voice / instruments

[@deguircecil7282]

Good kick drum Kenny roxx ! !!!! Simple minds blasted Australia in 1981 and 1982 I can imagine in 1986 ! !!!!!!

[@barbaranelson4804]

Simple Minds have WAY over shadowed every band that inspired them!

[@michaelwallden7261]

Amazing energy and so fresh, tight sound, the years from 81-86 epic

[@tomacquistapace233]

Wow. This is SImple Minds at their best: Sister Feelings Call

[@GohAhweh]

💫

[@flowerboy9419]

Love this live sound, so much more energy than their studio recordings of the time

[@glennhalila8279]

I was just thinking the same exact thing 5 minutes ago. I'm streamlining Simple Minds Concerts from 1981. There live music is sooo much better than the studio version. Not to say that their studio versions were bad, but the live sounds are way better. I think it's because of all the good energy and good vibes the band soaks in. It propelled them to be even better. I've sang in front of crowds before. When people are cheering and dancing, the whole band and atmosphere is elevated. The band definitely feeds off of the good energy. Wouldn't you agree?

[@BarbieChaite]

I really like this show... because of the sound trouble. It's like an instrumental/extended live version of sons & fascination. Also the band was on their top : groovy but not commercial.

[@ArtAndTalk]

+Barbie Chêtif "the band was on their top : groovy but not commercial." I like that description! Thanks and all the best!

[@madtony2531]

You are so correct

[@verlindend]

Derek is a genius….still got the cassette of that gig from my childhood

[@gigiallin4337]

i travel, you listen to it in the record and buy the ticket, then you listen it in this live version and you make the most beautiful trip

[@davidhobart9597]

I was there,it was very hot,they were peaking,lots of energy,great atmosphere.

[@Sputnik21]

I wish any of the modern so-called "bands" had even an inch of the talent that Simple Minds and other musicians of the 80's were able to show us.

[@johncarpenter8622]

Glorious ..... this version of Room is mustard !!!!

[@suz5862]

Fabulous! I taped the JJJ broadcast but lost the cassette. Thank you thank you thank you.

[@robmccann9844]

Brilliant

[@martinmaccauley]

This trumps any vinyl recording I've heard. Pure brilliance the way the instruments weave their gorgeous tapestry.

[@giovannisentimenti1870]

00:00 01. Intro/ Sons And Fascination 07:11 02. Changeling 11:46 03. Thirty Frames A Second 17:00 04. Premonition 23:40 05. Sweat In Bullet 27:57 06. I Travel 34:14 07. Celebrate 41:00 08. Love Song 46:14 09. The American 52:49 10. Room (includes Rock & Roll)

[@GohAhweh]

💋

[@preving]

I really like how 'Love Song' sounds

[@madtony2531]

This is fabulous. Thanks so much. Sons and Fascination my favourite album and tour . Bring it on

[@willswanson1]

Many thanks for posting this. I only had a poor copy of the main set and an even poorer copy of the last three tracks. The sound quality is amazing.

[@quentinstewart921]

You'll find this concert on the Japanese released CD called Theme for a Great City

[@sergiorubioortiz200]

Awesome! Police, U2, Pretenders, Simple Minds... The eighties! Do you like these bands too?

[@captainmission]

Derek is amazing!!!

[@paddymacIV]

lovely clear audio, super strong Bass, excellent Forbes tone monster . Ald Skool Mindbenders

[@lawrenceomond7341]

Regent Theatre in 82 was epic

[@incrediblewild]

awesome!!!!!

[@meldrew728]

What is it with your Aussie recordings of these bands?Magazine also had a blistering recording for Play. Feels like you’re on stage with them.

[@glennhalila8279]

I love ALL Simple Minds Songs! If I break it down Jim Kerr is one of the Best Vocalists Ever to Sing! Good Range, blends his Voice in with the beat (Very Important). Charlie's Guitar is also one of the Best. The Bass player and Drummer are in Sync all the time! 1981 is my Favorite Simple Minds Repertoire

[@carchie86]

"If I break it down Jim Kerr is one of the Best Vocalists Ever to Sing!"...I think that might be pushing it a bit, a good frontman but not a great singer xD

[@davidhobart9597]

Derek Forbes is the band

[@FoobsTon]

​@@carchie86 You've clearly never heard him live... He's a belting singer.

[@glennhalila8279]

Nobody plays that Guitar like Charlie Burchill! Noooo Body! When Jim Kerr was singing like this I assumed that it was almost like a miracle because he's got a good American Accent which is really unbelievable considering the way that he talks with to the Audience with his Scottish Accent!

[@MrMansun95]

before the sold out and sacked DF

[@GohAhweh]

on the nose!

[@DaylasWings88]

YOU TUBE HAS BEEN HACKED. TWO MUSIC GROUPS ARE ON AT THE SAME TIME; IT IS HAPPENING TO ALMOST ONE I'VE LISTENED TO THE LAST TWO DAYS.

[@jasonregan7138]

I wonder if they did a Shoey?

[@ALPQZM654]

Kenny Hyslop was the best drummer by far in Simple Minds.

[@user-gw7rg5yl2v]

Derek Forbes is a great bass player. Sorry Mr. Kerr, but without Derek, Simple Minds never was the same

[@henryperrier7285]

Jim where are you

[@MrMansun95]

his in his own tribute band lol

[@suz5862]

@@MrMansun95 Very funny but heartbreaking - they were without doubt brilliant 😔

[@gigiallin4337]

he is with us like he has always been, only 35 frames a second backwards

[@glenndouglas8822]

If I hear one more selling out comment I will go crazy🤣😂 the minds always wanted to be BIG. They never sold out, they just moved with the times. Be sad if they stuck to one sound and made the same album over and over. Get rid of this selling out BS. ✌️

[@suz5862]

Simple Minds sold out.

[@glenndouglas8822]

@@suz5862 what a lot of old tosh. Stop living in 1982.

[@suz5862]

@@glenndouglas8822 1981 actually (pre New Gold Dream). I have no desire engaging in a debate with you on this topic. I was rather holding you to your promise.