Simple Minds has announced the 2025 Alive & Kicking North American headlining tour, the band’s biggest live run across the U.S. and Canada in four decades. Serving as support on the entire run will be Soft Cell and Modern English.

The band’s Jim Kerr shared: “Been a while but 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 Alive & Kicking tour launches May 16 at Ridgefield, WA’s Cascades Amphitheater and will play shows at such famed arenas and amphitheaters as Seattle, WA’s Climate Pledge Arena (May 17), Inglewood, CA’s Kia Forum (May 22), Denver, CO’s Ball Arena (May 27), Woodlands, TX’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (May 31), Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavilion (June 10), Wantagh, NY’s Northwell at Jones Beach Theater (June 13), Mansfield, MA’s Xfinity Center (June 15), and Toronto, ON’s Budweiser Stage (June 18) before they wrap-up on June 22 at Noblesville, IN’s Ruoff Music Center.

General tickets are on sale now at: www.simpleminds.com/tour.

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