{"id":31311,"date":"2025-01-27T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-announces-north-american-dates-for-the-alive-kicking-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:03:07","slug":"simple-minds-announces-north-american-dates-for-the-alive-kicking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-announces-north-american-dates-for-the-alive-kicking-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Minds announces North American dates for the Alive &amp; Kicking tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-27\/M_SimpleMindsAliveandKicking_012725.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy of Live Nation\/photo by:  Anton Corbijn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Simple Minds<\/strong> is returning to North American for a new tour this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The Alive &amp; Kicking tour, featuring special guests <strong>Soft Cell<\/strong> and <strong>Modern English<\/strong>, will hit arenas and amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada starting May 16 in Ridgefield, Washington, and wrapping June 22 in Noblesville, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Been a while but absence makes the heart grow fonder,\u201d says frontman <strong>Jim Kerr<\/strong>. \u201cSimple Minds are ecstatic at the prospect of touring so extensively in the US and Canada this coming Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A ticket presale launches Wednesday at 10 a.m. with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The tour coincides with this year\u2019s 40th anniversary of their hit studio album <em>Once Upon\u00a0a Time<\/em>, which featured their #1 hit \u201c(Don\u2019t You) Forget About Me.\u201d To mark the occasion the band released a ruby anniversary digital edition of the album on Monday, and will play \u201c(Don\u2019t You) Forget About Me\u201d on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simpleminds.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>simpleminds.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Live Nation\/photo by: Anton Corbijn Simple Minds is returning to North American for a new tour this spring. The Alive &amp; Kicking tour, featuring special guests Soft Cell and Modern English, will hit arenas and amphitheaters across the U.S. and Canada starting May 16 in Ridgefield, Washington, and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-announces-north-american-dates-for-the-alive-kicking-tour\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}