Simple Minds - Tiffany's, Glasgow, 29th December 1981 (FM Broadcast, 8 Songs)

Recorded at Tiffany's, Glasgow, 29th December 1981.
Original recording that unfortunately suffers from some hiss and a little FM static noise now and again compared to the 5 song rebroadcast version I put up here a few years ago.
Radio Clyde recorded 2 Simple Minds concerts and many other bands in the early to mid-eighties. Goodness knows what has happened to all the master tapes over the years. Probably gone forever!
This captures the band at their Krautrock influenced best. Enjoy!
Songs are:
01. Sons And Fascination
02. Changeling
03. Thirty frames A second
04. I Travel
05. Celebrate
06. Love Song
07. This Fear Of Gods
08. Factory
Photo by Virginia Turbett of Kenny Hyslop on stage with Simple Minds at Edinburgh Odeon, Scotland, 27th August 1981.

[@christos1973]

That was when the juices were really flowing. Derek's fingers were surely bleeding at the end of this! F***ing BRILLIANT!

[@neilfitzsimmons1800]

Simple Minds at their best in my opinion.

[@MrWarwolf6]

It’s hard to overstate how great the bass and drum playing are in this early incarnation of SM

[@MrMansun95]

The real Simple Minds not like the crap version now !

[@kennethhannah]

My first ever gig. A spotty 14 year old wearing a Bowie jacket, frilly shirt, and burgundy tukka boots. A couple of sneaky pints in Hurricanes followed by some Moscow Mules in Centre Court across the road from Tiffany's. Brilliant to hear it after so many years.

[@caselou67]

Oh God. To hear Derek's bass lines in this recording is such a bliss... so fast so faithful to the recordings. Overall, Brilliant! I'm shocked ( in a good way)!!

[@30pineza]

I don't know how you can lose a bass player like that.

[@stephencraw1654]

Forbes & McNeil were on a different level

[@nakedeye68]

SM at their darkest best. To think, there must be so many recordings sat in dusty drawers of SMs early gigs and nothing ever gets officially released. Just endless greatest hits with all their worst songs on.

[@gillesleguen7762]

this live is just craaaazy ! this is the best era for The Minds. and very precisely the six month time with the perfect vibe and setlist ... still a bit of Real to Real, the great classic tracks from Empire & Dance, and the new songs from Sons & Fascination. i need more live from this era. Thank You ! a french fan

[@theperfectbeatglasgow]

Sublime playing by Forbes & Hyslop!

[@neilclarendon3615]

When they were at there best

[@fuckamericanidiot]

The fact that Simple Minds didn't do a live album in 1980 or 1981 is a tragedy.

[@stephenfirth466]

Jesus christ how good

[@davemeeth8801]

The first time I saw them was soon after this, in Atlanta at the Agora Ballroom (‘82-‘83) and it changed my musical life.

[@johngonzalez624]

Very interesting performance. Fast, raw, synth and bass dominated with splashes of guitar brilliance and melancholy lyrics. Thank you for posting.

[@captainmission]

Outstanding!

[@iancrause1856]

I still think Simple Minds must be the only band on record to have gone almost completely to pieces when their bassist went. New Order bears no comparison.

[@dbdillboy]

I was at this gig,so good to hear this again,this was the real simple minds,none of the shite they are coming out with now for the past 10 years,this was the Real minds?

[@RhemieleBoue]

Thanks so much for this old classic !