Category Archives: New Romantic

Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 3]

Posted on May 16, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Following the never ending rendition of “Belfast Child,” the set list began its sprint towards the inevitable. Their three biggest selling singles would inevitably manifest, but they were shot through with some more thrills from the … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 2]

Posted on May 15, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] After the most perfect opening salvo to a Simple Minds live album ever, Where can anyone go but down? If Kerr’s “let me see your hands” in the song least likely to host such shenanigans was … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 1]

Posted on May 14, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Simple Minds: Live In The City Of Diamonds – Worldwide – 2xCD [2025] CD1 CD2 We put this on the want list when it was announced earlier this year and we made sure to pre-order so that it was posted … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Synthpop Band The Mood Return To Print With “Singles 1981-1984”

Posted on March 18, 2025 by postpunkmonk

The Mood were one of the many groups that hit the US shores during the reign of “New Music.” The post-MTV branding for what was previously called “New Wave, ” but with a lot of synthesizers! I don’t think I … Continue reading →

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Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion + Culture 1976-1986 @Orlando Museum Of Art

Posted on March 4, 2025 by postpunkmonk

It was over a month ago when I found myself traveling to Orlando, Florida not for a roots check, but to visit the Orlando Museum of Art on the final [HELD OVER!] day of the third, and largest, exhibit of … Continue reading →

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Blancmange and Midge Ure Join Up For North American Mini-Tour This May

Posted on February 28, 2025 by postpunkmonk

We’ve already written about the Cruel World Festival that brings a mixture of New Wave vets and contemporary Darkwave bands into a large pot and applies the heat. It’s a huge, fun show that often sees PPM royalty jetting over … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Simple Minds Live Album Has An Almost Perfect Setlist; This Fan Says “Huzzah!”

Posted on February 26, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Last Friday we got a surprise notice from the Simple Minds mothership that…stop the presses… a new Simple Minds live album was being prepped for release in April. Gloryoski! Simple Minds sure have a lot of live albums. Maybe not … Continue reading →

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