Simple Minds has announced plans for a major North American headline tour – the UK band’s biggest live run across the US and Canada in four decades. Soft Cell and Modern English will open the entire tour that gets underway May 16th at Ridgefield, WA’s Cascades Amphitheater and continues through the June 22nd at Noblesville, IN’s Ruoff Music Center. 

“Been a while but absence makes the heart grow fonder,” says Jim Kerr. “Simple Minds are ecstatic at the prospect of touring so extensively in the US and Canada this coming Spring.”

Artist presales begin Wednesday, January 29th and local presales begin Thursday, January 30th at 10am (local). General on-sale start Friday, January 31 at 10am (local). Find more info HERE. 

The tour coincides with the 40th anniversary of Simple Minds’ momentous 1985, a milestone year in their legendary career which saw them topping the world’s charts with their Billboard “Hot 100” #1 hit single, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” and RIAA Gold-certified seventh studio album Once Upon A Time. Simple Minds will be performing “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Wednesday, January 29th.

Today sees the digital premiere of a special new 9-track edition of Once Upon A Time featuring the addition of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and updated Ruby Anniversary artwork. Physical versions and other anniversary reissues will follow later in the year. Earlier this month, Simple Minds released a new single, “Your Name In Lights,” to celebrate the BBC premiere of their documentary, Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible, available to stream now exclusively in the UK on BBC iPlayer with North American broadcast dates to be unveiled soon. Check out the trailer HERE. The music video for the new single had its world premiere on January 17th – marking the anniversary of the band’s first-ever live performance on January 17, 1978, at Glasgow, Scotland’s Satellite City. Watch the video for “Your Name In Lights” HERE.