Simple Minds – Summer Live 2025

Simple Minds will perform on Sunday, July 27, 2025, starting with 9.30 pm, on the magical Sicilian stage of Teatro Antico, in Taormina. The concert is part of their Summer Live Tour 2025.

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Besides the concert in Taormina, Simple Minds will also appear on stage in Verona, on July 15, 2025, and in Lucca, on July 24, 2025, for the Lucca Summer Festival 2025.

SIMPLE MINDS

Simple Minds – Concert in Taormina

Simple Minds was born in 1977, in Glasgow.

The current lineup of the band consists of the two remaining original members – Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, and the more recent members – Ged Grimes, Cherisse Osei, Sarah Brown and Gordy Goudie.

Simple Minds became best known internationally for their hit Don’t You (Forget About Me), released in 1985. Their other prominent hit singles include Alive and Kicking and Belfast Child.

Their discography consists of 21 studio albums, 11 live albums, 10 compilation albums, 14 box sets, 68 singles, and 5 video albums.

They were the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s and, over the course of their career, they sold more than 60 million albums.

The discography of the band consists of 18 studio albums, eight live albums, 12 compilation albums, nine box sets, 52 singles, and five video albums.

Simple Minds was the most commercially successful Scottish band of the 1980s and, over the course of their career, they sold more than 60 million albums.

ANCIENT THEATER OF TAORMINA

The Ancient Theater of Taormina is an ancient Greek theater built around the third century BC.

With a diameter of 120 meters, the theater is the second largest of its kind in Sicily, after that of Syracuse, and it is frequently used for theatrical performances and concerts.

The theater is located about 450 meters away from the Porta Messina, the main entrance to the town, where you can also find a bus station to the Taormina-Giardini train station.

The railway station is about 3.2 kilometers away, or about 50 minutes on foot.