Simple Minds share new single Your Name In Lights

Simple Minds share new single, Your Name In Lights, lifted from the soundtrack to the documentary, Everything Is Possible.

Released to celebrate the BBC premiere of the acclaimed Simple Minds documentary Everything Is Possible, the song was written in collaboration with Paul Statham. On Your Name In Lights the band sets out to match the film’s ambience whilst recapturing the innocent spirit of their early days: “When we were ‘wee boys’ playing around with our synthesisers,” says the band’s Jim Kerr, “proudly wearing our Kraftwerk and Brian Eno influences on our sleeve.”

The resultant track mirrors a style that Simple Minds previously produced on their 1979 Reel To Real Cacophony album, with an accompanying lyric which, as Kerr puts it, “conjures up a ‘Dreamer’s conversation with a distant Muse’ – that Muse being Aretha Franklin as sung by Sarah Brown.”

Listen below:

Everything Is Possible

Made by Lonesome Pine Productions for Paramount+ and in partnership with BMG, Everything Is Possible was directed and produced by Joss Crowley. The film takes the viewer on an extraordinary journey from the band’s isolated beginnings in late 1970s Glasgow, to their early groundbreaking and pioneering albums, through to their stratospheric ascent in the mid to late 1980s, and the subsequently challenging later years and triumphant rebirth over the past decade.

Along the way the film features candid interviews with band members including Simple Minds’ founders, singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, as well as a cast of outstanding musicians, writers, actors and broadcasters: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri, Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof, The Specials and 2-Tone founder Jerry Dammers, Irvine Welsh, Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club), broadcasters Murial Gray and Mariella Frostrup, and album producers John Leckie, Peter Walsh, Trevor Horn and Jimmy Iovine.

The overarching theme of the film is the lifelong friendship at the core of the group, that of Kerr and Burchill. Forged at the top of a sand castle on a new housing scheme in 1967, this remarkable relationship has spanned seven decades, making it an integral part of Simple Minds’ exceptional story.

Everything Is Possible is available to watch on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Scotland channel from the 10 December.

Summer Shows 2025

Next summer the band will play a series of UK and Ireland summer shows where the band will perform their iconic 1985 album Once Upon A Time along with a selection of greatest hits. Special guests will include Future Islands, KT Tunstall and Hamish Hawk.

27 June – Bellahouston, Glasgow
28 June – Lincoln Castle
29 June – Southampton Summer Sessions
01 July – Trinity Summer Series, Dublin
03 July – Bedford Summer Sessions
06 July – Lytham Festival, Lytham St. Annes *Already on sale
07 July – Live At Piece Hall, Halifax
08 July – Derby Summer Sessions

For ticket information click here

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