Kerr comments on new material

Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr has been talking to music website Undercover about his recent album ‘Cry’. "I'm still a Glasgow boy but I live the very opposite in Europe now,” he says, “I live now in the south of Sicily and I think coinciding with beginning a new life in a different place, the music came back and the pleasure of making music came back. Not only is ‘Cry’ a pleasant surprise but it came with relative ease". The new album was produced very quickly by Simple Minds standards, but Jim says: "My partner Charlie Burchill says the good songs are written in ten minutes and the daft ones take a year because intrinsically they are daft. They fool you into thinking if you hang in there there will be something. But let's just say the ones that have something to say tend to land on your lap. ‘Promised You A Miracle’, ‘Waterfront’ and ‘Alive and Kicking’ all came with ease. Even the political ones ‘Belfast Child’ and ‘Mandela Day’, I don't remember going round the houses with them. But the album tracks, where you think you have a great riff but you don't have a great song ... it is experienced I guess". ‘Cry’ was released on Eagle Rock earlier this year.