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2009

Simple Minds to play Isle Of Wight Festival

It's their first time at the legendary bash

Rock veterans Simple Minds lead the latest round of additions to this year’s Isle Of Wight Festival.

The Scottish legends will share a stage with headliners Neil Young and Pixies on the Main Stage on Sunday 14 June.

Frontman Jim Kerr commented: “We are very excited about playing the Isle of Wight. This is the first time Simple Minds have played the festival, so as you can imagine, we’re really looking forward to it.

We’ll be performing songs from our new 'Graffiti Soul' album and some classic gems."

Completing the Sunday night Main Stage line-up are The Pigeon Detectives, The Script, Goldie Lookin Chain, Judy Collins and Arno Carstens.

Meanwhile, The Charlatans play the Big Top.

The full line-up for Isle Of Wight so far is:

The Prodigy
Basement Jaxx
The Ting Tings
Pendulum
Stereophonics
Razorlight
Neil Young
Pixies
The Charlatans
Simple Minds
Maximo Park
The View
White Lies
The Rifles
The Zombies
Paolo Nutini
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Ultravox
Jesse Evans
The Arcadian Kicks
The Script
Goldie Lookin Chain
Judy Collins
Arno Carstens


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crink 

Apr 1, 2009

NME mentioning Simple Minds again? Must have had a change of heart. Great news they are playing this festival, it will prove that Simple Minds live will wipe the floor with most of the 'fashionable' bands of today.

Splendid Fool 

Apr 6, 2009

Crink, the sad fact that few bands of 2009 can blow rock dinosaurs the like of Simple Minds off stage does not make Simple Minds relevant today. In fact, they ceased to be relevant as early in their career than 1985 or something.

crink 

Jun 7, 2009

Splendid fool, maybe you are right but the fact is after 1985 they sold out Wembley Stadium and almost every other stadium across Europe and America and probably sold about 20 milllion albums. Add to that the latest album is the first top 10 album in 14 years i think they are still quite 'relevent'

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