NME — Black Lips, Simple Minds, The Rumble Strips also play the final day of the festival more info

The Vinyl Villain — Lost In The Eighties- A Post Punk Mix TapeFilm, TV and Radio with their roll call of ready made stereotypes and lazy clichés - would have you believe that the early eighties music scene was a period populated almost exclusively by frilly shirted N... more info

Scotsman.com — SIMPLE MINDS Graffiti Soul *** Universal 2703208, £12.72 more info

Express Newspapers — Simple Minds return with a new album but the same defiant attitude. CHARLOTTE HEATHCOTE spoke to Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill about 30 years at the top. more info

Guardian Music — She's the 'falsetto from the ghetto' who's taken revenge on school bullies by making 2009's first great pop record. Oh, and her mum was in The Bill. Tim Jonze talks 808s and heartbreak with La RouxTwenty one-year-old Elly Jackson is sprawled acro... more info

Express Newspapers — AFTER early, difficult works such as Life In A Day, Simple Minds blossomed into an upbeat chart act with a monolithic pop sound typical of the Eighties - epic, glacial, heroic. more info

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Scotsman.com — THIRTY-ODD years ago, the Sits Vacant column tantalised me with exotic possibility: "New Scottish Record Label – Staff Wanted." This music-mad school-leaver passed the more info

AngryApe — As part of their Graffiti Soul tour more info