theunderestimator-2: After their infancy as Johnny And The Self Abusers, toddler Simple Minds can be

theunderestimator-2: After their infancy as Johnny And The Self Abusers, toddler Simple Minds can be seen here performing in 1978 at Mars Bar, Glasgow (where they held a residency during their early days), as shot by Laurie Evans who was the in-house photographer for the Edinburgh listing magazine City Lynx at the time.In that capacity she was able to capture some of the earliest images of Simple Minds at various gigs at Glasgow and the band’s previously unseen images from those early days were put together in a little photobook entitled “Pleasantly Disturbed” (2020) available via Hanging Around Books or by DM her on her social media accounts on FB & IG.“The embryonic Simple Minds quickly became the resident band at Glasgow’s Mars Bar (it was the only pub fearless enough to book reformed punks). They played every Sunday night. The band would come on with their backs to the audience, to a tape of weird sounds put together by David Henderson, with a revolving police light in a perspex head casting a blue beam around the cramped environment.They were writing new songs every week, with tracks appearing and disappearing throughout the year. Some of the songs played never made it to official release, only existing on scratchy bootlegs. By the end of the year, they were under the watchful eye of Bruce Findlay, had signed with Zoom Records, were a support band in demand (having supported The Only Ones, Ultravox, Generation X and The Strangers) and were ready to cut their debut album…”simpleminds.org(via & via) -- source link

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