{"id":51170,"date":"2024-02-07T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=51170"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T09:53:55","slug":"simple-minds-global-tour-2024","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/simple-minds-global-tour-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Minds: Global Tour 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This eight-month-long Simple Minds tour genuinely is global (they started in January in New Zealand: Dubai is a stop between Australasia and Europe) and they expect to play to over one million people worldwide, showcase their eighteenth studio album <em>Direction of the Heart<\/em> along with some of their classic hits. The setlist for past shows on the tour has a dozen songs, many of them seriously long, climaxing (of course) with Don&#8217;t You (Forget About Me).<\/p>\n<p>The nucleus of Simple Minds remains Jim Kerr (vocals) and Charlie Burchill (guitars and other instruments), who have been together since their short-lived late 70s punk incarnation as Johnny &amp; The Self-Abusers. Now they tour with a full band, including Ged Grimes (bass), Cherisse Osei (drums), Gordy Goudie (guitar and keyboards), Erik Ljunggren (keyboards), and Sarah Brown on backing vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: Simple Minds took their name from a David Bowie lyric \u2013 &#8220;He&#8217;s so simple-minded, he can&#8217;t drive his module&#8221; from Jean Genie.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This eight-month-long Simple Minds tour genuinely is global (they started in January in New Zealand: Dubai is a stop between Australasia and Europe) and they expect to play to over one million people worldwide, showcase their eighteenth studio album Direction <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/simple-minds-global-tour-2024\/\" title=\"Simple Minds: Global Tour 2024\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51172,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-51170","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-concert","cat_concert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/51170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/51170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51170"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=51170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}