Following on from Simple Mind’s cracking show before Christmas in the O2 – and his appearance at the 2009 Music Show in the RDS – Jim Kerr brings his new LOST BOY! AKA solo project to Dublin on November 13 for a very intimate show in the Academy 2, tickets for which are €23 and go on sale on Friday August 20.
"Somehow I had tuned into the boy that I used to be, the passionate kid that I had left behind, and mysterious as that all was, there was no denying how thrilled I was to be reconnecting with the energetic outlook and liberating values at the core of that distantly familiar character,” Kerr says of his new flight of musical fancy. “Rapidly I then began considering what kind of songs could be created if I could immerse myself ‘now’ in engaging fully with that young ghost. LOSTBOY AKA! is the result of that curiosity, and I am exhilarated by it. No mere dance with the past – thanks to the vision of co-writer and producer Jez Coad – much of these songs feel to me that they could be signals from tomorrow. It’s only a first step, but I can easily imagine taking this new relationship much further in parallel with the continuing great story of Simple Minds."