Simple Minds At Acrisure Arena: May, 2025 Tickets Go On Sale This Week

PALM DESERT, CA — Simple Minds has announced plans for a major North American headline tour – the legendary UK band’s biggest live run across the US and Canada in four decades. They will be joined by bands such as Soft Cell and Modern English, according to a recent news release.

The Live Nation-produced run includes a performance at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert on Friday, May 23, with additional shows at famed arenas and amphitheaters such as Inglewood, CA’s Kia Forum (May 22) in Los Angeles.

Ticket presales begin Wednesday, January 29, at 10 a.m. PST. Local presales begin Thursday, January 30, at 10 a.m., and all presales end Thursday, January 30, at 10 p.m.

General on-sales start Friday, January 31 at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com, the official ticketing provider of Acrisure Arena.

For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.simpleminds.com/tour.

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"Jim Kerr said that though it's "been a while, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Simple Minds are ecstatic at the prospect of touring so extensively in the US and Canada this coming Spring.”

"The tour coincides with the 40th anniversary of Simple Minds’ 1985, a milestone year in their career which saw them topping the world’s charts with their Billboard “Hot 100” #1 hit, “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” and RIAA Gold-certified seventh studio album Once Upon A Time, not to mention their unforgettable set in front of 135,000 fans – and a TV audience of millions – on the American leg of 1985’s Live Aid. Today sees the digital premiere of a special new 9-track edition of Once Upon A Time featuring the addition of “Don’t You (Forget About Me)" and updated Ruby Anniversary artwork.

"Hindsight is a glorious thing!” continues Kerr. “40 years on, and it now feels right for Simple Minds to have ‘Don't You (Forget About Me)’ included in this classy new nine-track edition of Once Upon A Time."

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