{"id":31503,"date":"2025-02-21T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-dropping-new-live-album-live-in-the-city-of-diamonds-in-april\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:02:33","slug":"simple-minds-dropping-new-live-album-live-in-the-city-of-diamonds-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-dropping-new-live-album-live-in-the-city-of-diamonds-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Minds dropping new live album, &#8216;Live in the City of Diamonds&#8217;, in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-21\/M_SimpleMindsDiamonds_022125.jpg\" alt><figcaption>BMG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Simple Minds<\/strong>\u00a0are giving fans a taste of their live show with a new live album coming in April.<\/p>\n<p><em>Live in the City of Diamonds<\/em> is a recording of the band\u2019s April 6, 2024, sold-out concert at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam and is the third in a trio of <em>Live in the City<\/em> albums, following 1987\u2019s <em>Live in the City of Lights<\/em>\u00a0and 2019\u2019s <em>Live in the City of Angels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As a preview of the album, the band has dropped a live performance of their classic hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DUrMX7wEoiI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Don\u2019t You (Forget About Me)<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d which is <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleminds.lnk.to\/DontYouForgetLiveWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>available now<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we wanted was to be in \u2018a great live band\u2019 and to spend our lives taking our music with us around the world,\u201d Simple Minds frontman <strong>Jim Kerr<\/strong> shares. \u201cDecades later we still relish that challenge every night on tour. <em>Live in The City of Diamonds<\/em> captures both the spirit and fever of Simple Minds live at this moment in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Live in the City of Diamonds<\/em> will be released April 25 in a variety of formats, including a two-CD set with 24 tracks and a 24-page book, a two-LP black vinyl set with 18 tracks and a two-LP clear glitter vinyl set, also with 18 tracks. All formats are <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleminds.lnk.to\/LiveInTheCityWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Simple Minds are set to\u00a0launch their\u00a0Alive &amp; Kicking tour, featuring special guests\u00a0<strong>Soft Cell\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Modern English<\/strong>, on May 16 in Ridgefield, Washington. 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<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUrMX7wEoiI\" title=\"Simple Minds \u2013 Don't You (Forget About Me) (Live in the City of Diamonds) (Official Audio)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMG Simple Minds\u00a0are giving fans a taste of their live show with a new live album coming in April. Live in the City of Diamonds is a recording of the band\u2019s April 6, 2024, sold-out concert at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam and is the third in a trio of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/simple-minds-dropping-new-live-album-live-in-the-city-of-diamonds-in-april\/\">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\/31503"}],"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=31503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}