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Released
  
25 May 2009

Length
  
42:52

Graffiti Soul (2009)
  
Big Music (2014)

Release date
  
25 May 2009

Label
  
Universal Music TV

Recorded
  
August - October 2008

Graffiti Soul (2009)
  
5X5 Live (2012)

Artist
  
Simple Minds

Producer
  
Jez Coad

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll

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Similar
  
Simple Minds albums, Rock and roll albums

Graffiti Soul is the fifteenth studio album (of original material) by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 25 May 2009.

Contents

On 31 May 2009, the album entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 10, becoming Simple Minds' first UK top ten album in 14 years, since the release of their 1995 album Good News from the Next World.

In early April 2009, the video for the single 'Rockets' was made available via the band's official website.

Simple minds moscow underground


Overview

During the recording of Graffiti Soul, Jim Kerr stated: «We really are flowing with ideas at the moment and [...] I do feel that we are possibly writing two albums simultaneously at present.» Several tracks were omitted from Graffiti Soul so that the album had more focus. Possible candidates include "Six Degrees Of Separation", "Lotus Effect" and "Shaman".

Recording

An e-mail announcement by Simple Minds stated that Graffiti Soul was initially written on location in Rome, Sicily, Antwerp and Glasgow. The band then returned for the first time in almost three decades to Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth in Wales, where the group originally recorded their earlier albums Real to Real Cacophony, Empires and Dance and New Gold Dream. The album was mixed in Los Angeles by Bob Clearmountain.

Release

Graffiti Soul is also available as a Vinyl LP and a 2-CD Deluxe edition, both including a second album called Searching for the Lost Boys, actually a covers studio album made up of cover songs of Neil Young, Massive Attack, Magazine, The Stranglers, Thin Lizzy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Call and The Beach Boys.

Personnel

  • Jim Kerr – vocals
  • Charlie Burchill – guitars, keyboards
  • Mel Gaynor – drums
  • Eddie Duffy – bass

    • Left-overs

    At least, three tracks, "Six Degrees Of Separation", "Lotus Effect" and "Shaman", were demoed for Graffiti Soul.

    Live performances

    Many of the songs have been played live:

  • "Moscow Underground", "Rockets" and "Stars Will Lead the Way": during the 2009 "30 Years Live European", 2009 "Graffiti Soul", 2010 "Australian", 2010 "Festival Show" and 2010 "Final Shows" tours.
  • "Moscow Underground": also during the 2011 "Greatest Hits Forest", 2011 "Greatest Hits +", 2012 "Festival", 2012 "Australia" tours and at the 2011 "Australia" "600 Sounds" Festival show.
  • "Stars Will Lead the Way": also during the 2011 "Greatest Hits +" and 2012 "Festival" tours.
  • "Light Travels": only one time as an encore (in Rome, Italy) and another time as a soundcheck (in Ancona, Italy) during the 2009 "Graffiti Soul" tour.
  • "Kiss and Fly": only one time as a soundcheck (in Birmingham, UK) during the 2009 "Graffiti Soul" tour.
  • "Graffiti Soul": during the 2009 "Graffiti Soul" and 2010 "Festival Show" tours.
  • "This Is It": during the 2009 "30 Years Live European", 2009 "Graffiti Soul", 2010 "Festival Show" and 2010 "Final Shows" tours.
  • "Rockin' In The Free World": only one time as a spontaneous improvisation launched by Jim during the 2009 "30 Years Live European" tour and another time as a soundcheck (in Birmingham, UK) during the 2009 "Graffiti Soul" tour.
  • "Teardrop" only four times: (as an encore) during the Lostboy! AKA's 2010 "Electroset Radio" tour and only one time (as an encore) during the Lostboy! AKA's 2010 "Electroset" tour.
  • "Whiskey In The Jar": only one time (in Cork, Ireland) during the 2009 "30 Years Live European" tour.

    • Songs

    1Moscow Underground5:01
    2Rockets4:36
    3Stars Will Lead the Way3:26

    References

    Graffiti Soul Wikipedia
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