When Sparkle in the Rain was released in 1984, it made good on the promise of “Waterfront”, the single which trailed it. This was a new, heftier Simple Minds: a band retooled for stadia. “Someone ...
The familiar Waterfront bassline ringing out over Trinity College Dublin is akin to a tank rolling across the cricket pitch. While that may well be the groundskeeper’s worst nightmare, it’s the ...