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\n<\/a>Jim Kerr is of course best known as the singer and front man of Simple Minds a band that have brought as such timeless songs as \u2018Alive and Kicking\u2019, \u2018Belfast Child\u2019 and \u2018Don\u2019t You (Forget About Me)\u2019 but now over 30 years into the bands career Jim has taken a big step and released his first solo album titled \u2018Lost Boy AKA Jim Kerr.\u2019 A somewhat departure from the norm Jim has fused rock with electro and produced an album that is so easy to listen to that you couldn\u2019t not enjoy it.<\/p>\n

About to finish up touring with Simple Minds and hit the road for a number of dates to promote \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 Jim took some time to talk to us about the new album, touring and why we\u2019ll probably never get an unplugged set from him in the near future.<\/p>\n

The new album \u2018Lost boy AKA Jim Kerr\u2019 is your first solo album, why was now the right time to release your debut effort?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a great question! I mean I struggled with it because no one is more surprised at this realization but me because ironically people say \u201cwhy didn\u2019t you do a solo album previously?\u201d and my answer is because I love being in a band and I really do.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t tell you why, I can only tell you why the last couple of years have been the most prolific in my life and from that point of view it was really the music that was appearing, the music that was pushing and if you\u2019d said to me 3 or 4 years ago that this was on the cards I would\u2019ve said never.\u00a0 But I\u2019m delighted that it\u2019s come to be.<\/p>\n

The name, is almost like you\u2019re giving yourself an alter ego, was this intentional?<\/strong>
\nWell it was intentional in the sense that once I knew that the music was coming and I knew I was going to do something, I was a little bit jammed for just a Jim Kerr solo album.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t getting my juices flowing and I didn\u2019t want to go and start another band because I like the band I\u2019m in.\u00a0 So I said how am I going to work, what\u2019s the vehicle here?\u00a0 Then once the music was coming together I could hear this nostalgic element that was not only taking me back to a style and a period of music, but it was also taking me back somewhat to myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Which is weird because I\u2019m not normally a nostalgic person, I\u2019m always thinking of the next idea but that was going on and it was taking me back to the recollection of who I was when I was maybe 18 or 19.\u00a0 Not quite a boy, but not a man either and I felt that I wonder what that character would make and do things in the studio today and that\u2019s maybe stretching it to say that it\u2019s an alter ego, but it\u2019s not a million miles away either.<\/p>\n

The sound leans towards a more electro feel but still maintains the driving rock beat that we are all familiar with from you, was it always the intention to do something a little different for this release?<\/strong>
\nWell yes, the music was coming through to be frank, there were a few ideas that could\u2019ve fit in the Simple Minds camp but I also felt there was something growing that would be a bit more distinctive to itself.\u00a0 I\u2019m already working on the songs for the second album and I think not only is it going to take some time to grow this through the years but I think in growing it, it will become more and more its own thing and indeed it took Simple Minds 2 or 3 albums to have an identity that was much fuller, much, much their own and less to do with our influences and so on and I think \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 will probably take a similar pattern.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The album has been released for a few months now in Europe, how has it been received?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been good, I didn\u2019t know what to expect and I had no illusions either.\u00a0 Well you would expect Simple Minds fans to get behind, but in fact I mean this in a nice way, but fans are pretty conservative people, they like their bands to be the classic line up, they like the classic artwork, they\u2019re not great at accepting people splintering off and all that.\u00a0 I was in Germany last week doing some work with \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 and hearing it on the radio and stuff and when I started off in this I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get that kind of exposure and its nice to be getting it.<\/p>\n

Are you excited to now be able to unleash it to the rest of the world?<\/strong>
\nWell certainly, I\u2019m really into it and part and parcel that is to let people know it exists and it\u2019s great to be talking to you about it.<\/p>\n

What are the origins of the songs on this album you\u2019ve said they were written specifically for this album but what inspired these songs in a lyrical sense?<\/strong>
\nHow I work is that I\u2019m always pretty much looking around and always since I was a kid I was always writing things down and playing with words and stuff like that goes on.\u00a0 But I suppose the kick off stuff is the music and the music that I work with is not only hopefully good melodically, but it usually has a strong sense of atmosphere within itself and it\u2019s the atmosphere of the music that provokes what I think will be a lyrical theme or a theme within a song and I try and elaborate on that.<\/p>\n

Was it easy to write the songs for this release compared to the 30 years of Simple Minds songs in your back catalogue?<\/strong>
\nIt wasn\u2019t hard and to be honest when I\u2019m in the heart of a song, when I\u2019m in the challenge of it, I\u2019m not really thinking of 30 days ago let alone 30 years ago, you\u2019re very much in that moment and you\u2019re just writing and it\u2019s always hard, it\u2019s always a puzzle, but it\u2019s a puzzle that I enjoy.<\/p>\n

Starting off promoting this album I believe you played a bunch of club shows and now you have been back playing stadiums, with Simple Minds, how have you found this transition from small to large stages?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a completely different world you know, before I even go on stage with Simple Minds you turn up and the dressing room is bigger than the venue I do with \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 and you know there\u2019s lovely things in the dressing room ha ha and assistants to help, with Lost Boy we turn up to these great but grotty little clubs and I\u2019m back where I was 30 years ago and I love that as well.<\/p>\n

Soon you\u2019ll be out doing some dates but rather than a usual band that you\u2019d normally have, tell us about the \u2018Electro set\u2019 for those that may not be aware of just what that is?<\/strong>
\nI have a band, a full blown rock band to do the \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 songs and that\u2019s very big and done very well but if you can imagine, sometimes you get people who do their album and then they go out with their acoustic and they do their acoustic version of their album and they usually have some intimate little venue or whatever and they play their songs \u2018Trubador style.\u2019\u00a0 Well \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 doesn\u2019t do the acoustic thing, but this version of that is an electro thing, pretty much, well the keyboards are all played live with another singer so there\u2019s two of us, but we play with programmed rhythms and loops and stuff.\u00a0 So if you look back, some of the early Simple Minds songs were written with sequencers and all that as well.\u00a0 So its just a version of the album and the centre of the album has that sound at its heart anyway so its another way of doing it and its been getting a very good reaction as well.<\/p>\n

In over 30 years in the business, you would\u2019ve seen so many trends come and go and music change, how do you feel that what you are doing now is relevant in this day and age?<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s a good question!\u00a0 Well it\u2019ll be relevant to some people and it won\u2019t to others ha ha!That\u2019s the same as 30 years ago, there\u2019s no give, some bands can appear today that\u2019s just a day old, doesn\u2019t make it relevant to anything other than themselves necessarily.\u00a0 I guess my philosophy is that you try to do great work, you try to do plenty of it and you try and let people know it exists and that\u2019s what you do and if your luck\u2019s in you may get some feedback and if your luck\u2019s out, you won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Can we expect to see you tour Australia with this new material?<\/strong>
\nNothing would make me happier.\u00a0 First of all as you said earlier, I am touring, next month we start, I\u2019ve got 40 \u2018Lost Boy\u2019 dates so this is a touring thing and I\u2019m a touring guy.\u00a0 As you know, my band Simple Minds, my other band had some of our greatest days in Australia, some of our best memories and even if we were there currently just enjoy it so nothing would make me happier.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been to Australia more than a few times, as most recent as earlier this year where you played at the Formula 1 Grand Prix, do you have any memories of Australia you can share with us?<\/strong>
\nSome of the greatest, it is a fact and I never hesitate to underline it.\u00a0 Australia was the first place that really gave Simple Minds a whole hearted break.\u00a0 The first place I remember getting presented with a gold disc and all that stuff and we went down there pretty much unknown and we came and supported one of your local groups called \u2018Icehouse\u2019 and people really, really encouraged us.\u00a0 At the same time we were young and to use sort of laymen\u2019s terms we were still learning our trade, so I\u2019ve got only great memories from that and the multitude of times we\u2019ve been there since then of course, not only experiences of playing, but as we go everywhere we made a lot of good friends and good mates there so that always makes the experience pleasurable.<\/p>\n

Your gig in The “Fete de l’humanit’e” on September 11th in La Courneuve Paris is set to be special in that it will be the last Simple Minds show for the foreseeable future and in reading on your blog on simpleminds.com you are expecting a crowd of up to 100,000. That’s a pretty remarkable way to stop the current run of gigs that began nearly two years ago with the 30th anniversary shows in \u201908, what can fans expect at this show?<\/strong>
\nPutting it very simple, I was talking about it yesterday, one of the great things about the band currently is that it goes from strength to strength.\u00a0 We\u2019re ending a tour I think fresher and better than we were at the start you see, well we\u2019ve played a lot more so you should be better you know.\u00a0 Normally when you do gigs, I don\u2019t know how many we\u2019ve done this year but a few, you would expect a bit of auto pilot to creep in or you would expect a bit of going through the motions.\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 The band goes from strength to strength and that gig is 12 days away from now I think.\u00a0 We go into a studio with Simple Minds in fact today working on 3 or 4 new songs and I\u2019m pretty sure that a couple of them will get an airing that day as well, they\u2019ll say well that\u2019s a bit of a brave thing to do.\u00a0 Well why would you risk that to play songs that people have never heard but that\u2019s how confident we are and that\u2019s how good the band is at the moment, so we\u2019ll be going at that gig not with the feeling of a count down to a holiday but we\u2019ll be giving it our best.<\/p>\n

Throughout your career, if you could pick one song from your entire back catalogue that you feel defines you as an artist what would that be and why?<\/strong>
\nWell there isn\u2019t one song, it just doesn\u2019t exist and pride is not a word that I use a lot but I\u2019m really proud of Simple Minds have much different styles within their own style you know, go back to the early days of the electro or that band began as an alt rock band and of course we\u2019ve been a pop band, a stadium band and if you look at songs like \u2018Belfast Child\u2019 some would say a political band.\u00a0 Whatever, it\u2019s a huge experience, so there\u2019s not one song I think, there\u2019s one song that people can say \u2018well that\u2019s your most famous song\u2019 or whatever but there\u2019s not one song that defines it.\u00a0 I\u2019m afraid I couldn\u2019t do that for you, maybe somebody else could.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I wanted to ask about the legacy of \u2018Don\u2019t you (forget about me)\u2019 and how you feel about THAT song?\u00a0 Are you sick of it?<\/strong>
\nNo, not at all, if we were sick of it, we just wouldn\u2019t play it, but we always play it and when we play it we give it 100%.\u00a0 Its one of those songs we never rehearse, I should say in rehearsals or sound checks you go \u2018oh not this again\u2019.\u00a0 It\u2019s just one of those but you never feel that in front of an audience, its almost not our song in the sense that it\u2019s fair to say that it\u2019s a song of a particular generation and its one of those songs that even people who might not like Simple Minds, they like that song.\u00a0 You know they played it at their wedding or they played it at their Bar mitzvah, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 You can\u2019t let people down, you have to play it and you have to give it 100% and we do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just one of those songs that you put on at a pub and people just goes crazy for it..<\/strong>
\nThey go crazy and listen it\u2019s not bad to have one of those in the set huh?<\/p>\n

Thanks for your time Jim and we hope to see you in Australia soon.<\/strong>
\nThank you. Yeah, that\u2019d be great, see you then.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Scotland<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Jim Kerr – Lostboy<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.lostboyaka.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Jim Kerr – AKA Lostboy (Riot! Entertainment)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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