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Simple Minds: Moore Theater, Seattle

Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1995

IT COULD be coincidence that Simple Minds kicked off their first tour in three years in Seattle. Given the band's unveiling of a rougher-edged, guitar-based sound, however, it seemed apropos that the moody Scottish rockers would find themselves in the capital of grunge, rain and flannel.

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