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Book Simple Minds for private and corporate events. We provide talent booking services and work directly with artists, agents and managers. Booking and consulting for public events and festivals.
Simple Minds is a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977, known for 1980s synth-rock and new wave with global chart success.
BnMusic works directly with artists, their agents and managers to check the current availability and booking fee for Simple Minds.
The final price for Simple Minds depends on your event details, including the date, location, type of event, travel requirements and performance format. Fees may also be higher during peak periods and major holidays.
Send us your event details and BnMusic will check the best available booking terms for Simple Minds and provide you with an up-to-date offer.
BnMusic does not represent the artist. We do not provide personal contact information or handle press requests, interviews, fan mail, personal messages, gifts, free appearances or charity requests.
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Looking to book Simple Minds for your event? BnMusic can help with availability, pricing and booking arrangements. We handle professional booking inquiries only and do not provide personal artist contacts or forward private messages.
Sent all the details of your event: the date, city and type of event for booking Simple Minds.
Our agents will get in touch and provide you with the fee, travel details and rider Simple Minds.
We agree on the terms, draw up the contract, and transfer the fee to the Simple Minds's account.
We guarantee the Simple Minds's arrival, oversee their stay, and ensure their performance at your event.
BnMusic is not the artist’s official representative or exclusive booking agent. However, through BnMusic you can quickly and easily submit a booking request for the artist for a private event, corporate event, wedding, festival, concert or other project. BnMusic works directly with artists’ agents, managers and official representatives to check availability, obtain current commercial terms and coordinate the details of the performance. Final booking approval, performance fees and contractual terms are always confirmed by the artist’s official representation.
A booking request for Simple Minds can be submitted with the proposed date, city, country, event type, venue and required performance format.
BnMusic can coordinate the inquiry with the Simple Minds. BnMusic does not represent Simple Minds and an inquiry should not be interpreted as confirmation that a particular private or corporate event will be accepted.
The event must first be reviewed for availability, commercial terms and artist approval.
There is no single public Simple Minds booking fee that can be applied to every engagement.
A commercial proposal can depend on the date, country, event type, performance format, routing, production requirements and other conditions attached to the proposed engagement.
BnMusic’s current Simple Minds page also states that the final booking price varies according to factors including destination, travel and event type.
For meaningful pricing, submit the actual event rather than relying on an old fee found online.
Simple Minds availability must be checked for the exact date and location.
Simple Minds‘s public touring calendar on the artist’s website is useful for understanding announced concerts and routing, but it should not be treated as a complete private-booking calendar.
BnMusic can submit the proposed date with Simple Minds and event information for consideration.
For a serious Simple Minds inquiry, provide:
These fields closely match the information requested through BnMusic’s formal artist offer process.
For a major international artist, a detailed request is more useful than simply asking, “How much is Simple Minds?”
The initial request is reviewed before it is submitted or discussed with the relevant artist representatives.
If the proposed engagement moves forward, the process can include:
An indication that a date may be possible is not the same as a completed Simple Minds booking.
When touring, artists typically perform with their full line-ups.
However, it should not be assumed that this specific format and full line-up will automatically apply to every private or corporate event.
The available format and line-up for each private event must be agreed upon individually with the Simple Minds.
Once you submit a request with all the details regarding your event, we will discuss it with the Simple Minds‘s management and provide you with a definitive answer regarding the line-up and format for your show.
There are no grounds to publish information regarding a standard performance duration for a private event unless it has been confirmed for the specific performance by Simple Minds being planned.
Typically, the performance duration is agreed upon with Simple Minds based on the client’s preferences and the format of the performance.
Accordingly, the actual performance duration stipulated by the contract must be specified in the client’s commercial proposal and the event agreement with the artist.
The official sources do not provide a public technical rider for a private shows.
Technical requirements should therefore not be invented from photographs, previous concerts or another shows.
Once the performance format is established, the organizer or production company should review the current rider supplied for the proposed engagement.
This allows stage, sound, lighting, backline, power and other requirements to be planned against the correct production.
Not necessarily.
A private or corporate engagement may still be subject to its own available format, performance duration, production requirements and commercial conditions.
For this reason, the public tour is useful factual context, but it should not be copied into a private-event proposal as though all conditions are identical.
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977. The band evolved from post-punk roots to become a major force in 1980s new wave and synth-rock, led by vocalist Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, who remain the core members. Their rise to international prominence began with albums Sons and Fascination (1981) and New Gold Dream (1982), which established them across the UK and Australia.
The band achieved their commercial breakthrough in the US with ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ from the 1985 film The Breakfast Club, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Their album Once Upon a Time (1985) topped UK charts and reached the top ten in the US, spawning multiple hit singles including ‘Alive and Kicking’ and ‘Sanctify Yourself.’ Their next album Street Fighting Years (1989) continued their dominance with the UK number-one single ‘Belfast Child.’ Simple Minds sold over 60 million albums worldwide and were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s.
After a period of commercial decline in the late 1990s, the band returned to prominence starting in the late 2000s with albums including Graffiti Soul (2009), Walk Between Worlds (2018), and Direction of the Heart (2022). They received the Q Inspiration Award in 2014 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2016 for Outstanding Song Collection. The band remains active and available to book for festivals, corporate events, and live performances.
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