Just a Simple week at work for Ged Grimes
Last week was just another week in the life of Dundee's Ged Grimes, former bass player with Danny Wilson, and more recently Deacon Blue and Jim Kerr's Lostboy. Or so he thought...
Ged Grimes.
- By Alan Wilson, Rocktalk writer
- Published in the Courier : 16.09.10
- Published online : 15.09.10 @ 08.43pm
Having been asked by Jim and Charlie Burchill to help out with recording some new Simple Minds material in London at the start of this month, he ended up being pitched on stage with the band at one of Europe's biggest festivals in front of over 80,000 fans!
Now back at his day job as a music provider for the video games industry with his own company, Jack's Hoose Music, Ged takes up the story.
"I first met Jim and Charlie when Danny Wilson and Simple Minds were on Virgin in the 80s. But it wasn't until Deacon Blue supported them 18 months ago that we reconnected.
"This led to me doing Jim's solo Lostboy tour in May this year. Charlie performed with Lostboy on the last night on the tour in Amsterdam and we had a great night.
"So I was asked to come to London in early September to record some new songs with the full Simple Minds line-up. We spent the first week of September doing this and all went great.
"I was preparing to return to Dundee last Tuesday when Jim and Charlie asked if I was free to do a wee "show" on Saturday the 11th in Paris. I obviously agreed...but they were committed in the studio till the day of the gig so we couldn't rehearse before the show."
So Ged returned to Dundee with only two days to rehearse the Minds' set on his own then nip back down to London to rejoin the guys.
"We arrived in Paris on the day of the show. I didn't know anything about it...turns out it was France's biggest music festival Fete De L'Humanite and Simple Minds were headlining!
"No soundcheck...broadcast live...we walk on stage...80,000 punters...a baptism of fire. We played an hour and 20 minutes and it was kind of a surreal experience.
"After the show I received loads of messages from all over, Brazil, USA, Japan, from Minds fans saying they had listened in and loved it." — not to mention his mates back home who inundated his Facebook page!
Ged's now concentrating on his top-secret new venture...more news on that by the end of the month hopefully.
- For more local music news, see the Rocktalk page in Thursday's Courier.
02.37pm - 16.09.2010 Frank - Kampen, The Netherlands Report This
Great for Ged!! But what happened to Simple Minds bassplayer Eddy Duffie?
09.31am - 18.09.2010 Steph - Centerville, Canada Report This
Ged's a top notch musician s so you wouldn't expect anything less. However , this version of Somewhere , Sometime ..sounds a bit tired . And JK sounds like he just woke up :(<br />
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