Legendary rock group Simple Minds are performing a one-off gig in Kent this week.

The Glasgow band will be at Margate’s Winter Gardens on Tuesday, April 16, as part of a Greatest Hits Live national tour.

During the past 30 years they have achieved huge chart success with hits including Alive and Kicking, Don’t You (Forget About Me), and Promised You A Miracle.

Expect to hear songs from their extensive back catalogue at the show, which will be in two halves with an interval and no support. The band will also be bringing things up to date with two new songs, Broken Glass Park and Blood Diamonds, recorded for their new greatest hits collection Celebrate.

Singer Jim Kerr, pictured front, said: “When we started Simple Minds our objective was to be considered as one of the great live bands. A band that had the desire to go all around the world – playing everywhere and anywhere. That challenge is ongoing and we will relish touring all over the UK, getting up close to so many who have supported us over the last three decades.”

Tickets £37.50. Call 01843 296111.

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Simple Minds are Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Mel Gaynor, Andy Gillespie and Ged Grimes.

Named after a lyric – ‘so simple minded’ – from David Bowie’s 1972 single The Jean Genie, Simple Minds made their chart debut in April 1979 with the Life In A Day album.

They first topped the UK charts with the 1985 album Alive and Kicking, which included hit singles All the Things She Said, Sanctify Yourself and Ghost Dancing.

The band also broke into the US market in 1985 with Don’t You (Forget About Me), from the soundtrack of John Hughes film The Breakfast Club, which went to No.1 in the States.

Front man Jim Kerr married Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders, in 1984. The marriage lasted four years. He then married actress Patsy Kensit in 1992. The couple divorced in 1996.