[tweetmeme]For this week’s installment of Vintage Video we return to that treasure trove of quality early ’80s concert footage, the West German TV show “Rockpalast,” for this New Gold Dream-era performance by Simple Minds filmed on une 6, 1982. Below, via craig floyd, you can watch the full 90-minute performance by Jim Kerr and Co., which even includes the now-dated practice of trotting out your big hit for a second time in the same set.
Setlist: Simple Minds, Rockpalast, West Germany, 6/6/82
1. “New Gold Dream” (Intro)
2. “Love Song”
3. “Changeling”
4. “Thirty Frames a Second”
5. “Premonition”
6. “Sweat in Bullet”
7. “Promised You a Miracle”
8. “King is White and in The Crowd”
9. “I Travel”
10. “Celebrate”
11. The American”
12. Sons and Fascination”
13. Room”
14. “Promised You a Miracle” (Encore)