Simple Minds bass guitar legend Derek Forbes on ‘A Very Simple Mind: On Tour’

Derek Forbes
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In episode #154 of The XS Noize Podcast, Mark Millar meets Simple Minds bass guitar legend Derek Forbes to discuss his new autobiography, A Very Simple Mind: On Tour.

Derek Forbes is known for those iconic spine-rattling bass riffs, which we recognise in most Simple Minds’ songs, and he wrote and co-wrote many of the band’s earliest classics. Derek is also well known internationally as a songwriter and bassist for Big Country and Propaganda.

He won an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection in 2016 for his songwriting for Simple Minds, voted best bass player in the World in 1982 and best bass player from Scotland in 2010.

In this interview, Derek Forbes talks about how he nearly joined the Navy, the early days of Simple Minds, recording with David Bowie and Iggy Pop, getting sacked by Simple Minds and lots more. Listen to episode #154 of The XS Noize Podcast with Derek Forbes – BELOW:

Previous XS Noize Podcast guests have been Peter FramptonJohn LydonNick HeywardSteven WilsonMatt GossBilly NomatesTom MeighanToyah Wilcox, Midge UreTravis, New OrderThe KillersTito JacksonSimple Minds, Divine ComedyShaun RyderGary NumanSleaford ModsThe Brand New Heavies.

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A Very Simple Mind: On Tour

Derek Forbes A Very Simple Mind: On Tour, Published by McNidder & Grace on 9 November 2023.

 

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Mark Millar is the founder of XS Noize and looks after the daily running of the website as well as hosting interviews for the weekly XS Noize Podcast.Mark's favourite album is Achtung Baby by U2.

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