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One of the most successful bands of their generation; Simple Minds will take a break from the preparations of their new album to celebrate their 30th Anniversary with a series of six rare UK concerts during November and December.
 
The concerts celebrates 30 glorious years dating back to the first time Simple Minds played their very first concert on January 17th at the Satellite City Club in Glasgow, as the support act to Steel Pulse.

Sunday the 16th December saw the students of April Graduate at Lock 17, Camden. It was a full house as students from the 1 Year Diploma course performed for family and friends. All in all around 450 people rammed into the venue, making for a very exciting night. Our fantastic endorsees as ever gave generously to those students who had stood out and worked hard. Every year these guys never cease to amaze us with their generosity. Prizes were as follows;

I recently posted a bunch of Top 10's and 20's in my AllOutGuitar biog and thought, who's ever going to read these? But these sort of lists are always good for debate and generally bemuse, annoy or please others. Whether these are my favourites or what I perceive to be the best is not certain, but they have featured heavily in my own evolution. So below are my Top 20 albums and Top 20 live gigs - these are straight off the top of my head and therefore not set in stone.