Mick Hucknall – Simply Red archive

Today we say “Happy Birth­day” to Dave Clayton who has played key­boards for Simply Red since the Home album.

Hope you have a good day Dave!

Two more live shows have just been added to the sum­mer tour, one near Venice which is already on sale and one in Ten­erife which is part of the Canary Islands Fest­ival and which we have a pre-sale for start­ing at 10am tomor­row — see the tour sec­tion for more details.

Diane Birch has just been con­firmed as the sup­port to Simply Red at the fol­low­ing UK shows:

18.6.10 Sher­wood Pines Forest Park
19.6.10 West­on­birt Arbor­etum
20.6.10 Cardiff Inter­na­tional Arena
25.6.10 Can­nock Chase Forest
27.6.10 Broad­lands
02.7.10 Delamere Forest

You can find out more about Diane at her web­site

The line up for this year’s Montreux Jazz Fest­ival in Switzer­land was announced at mid­night and will go on sale at 10am today (Swiss time). Simply Red will per­form in the Strav­in­ski Aud­it­or­ium on July 14th — lots more inform­a­tion about the fest­ival, includ­ing how to buy tick­ets, can be found here

Photo taken by Cam­illa Bjorvig

The “Songs Of Love” album is due to be released in Mex­ico next Tues­day — April 27th