Derek Forbes ( Formerly of Simple Minds)

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Derek Forbes ( Formerly of Simple Minds)

September 3, 2016 @ 10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Derek Forbes (born 22 June 1956, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish bassist, vocalist, and sometime guitarist, best known for his work with the Scottish band Simple Minds, which he joined in 1978, and recorded on their early demos and 1979 debut album, Life in a Day until shortly after their 1985 hit, “Don’t You (Forget About Me)”).
After Simple Minds, Forbes went on to play in number of other bands, including Propaganda (Germany) and Oblivion Dust (Japan). He also played in Fourgoodmen, a Scottish supergroup, between 2005-2007 and formed XSM, who were originally to consist of Forbes, MacNeil and McGee from the original Simple Minds line up. XSM recorded an albums worth of tracks, but Mick MacNeil didn’t want to play ‘Live’, so Forbes and McGee took the band out, along with ‘one Hit Wonder’ Owen Paul (McGee), sibling of Brian McGee. The guitar and keyboard player roles were twofold, with Steven Curley (version 1) on guitar, followed by Ant Seaman guitar (version 2) and Gary O’Hagan keyboards (version 1) and Andy Gall keyboards (version 2).

Forbes was voted ‘Best Bass Player in the World’ in 1982, and ‘Best International Bass Player’ in a music poll in Australia, the same year. Forbes was also voted ‘Best Bass Player in UK’. Forbes is highly respected by his peers and fellow musicians, including Adam Clayton, Peter Hook, Nicky Wire, Tony Butler, Pino Palladino, JJ Burnell, Bruce Foxton, John Giblin and Malcolm Foster.

In 2009, Forbes was voted ‘Scotland’s Greatest Ever Bassist’ by the readers of Dear Scotland,[1] and his life and work is the subject of a biography in both print and film by writer/director Ethan Dettenmaier.

Forbes had his own Hollywood radio show on LA Talk Radio for two years, before joining Big Country which, stopped production of his show ‘May the Forbes Be With You’.

Forbes was a featured extra in the film ‘This Is Not A Love Song’.

Forbes was the bass player with Scottish band Big Country, replacing the longstanding Tony Butler who retired from the band, but left the band in 2015.

Details

Date:
September 3, 2016
Time:
10:00 pm - 2:00 am
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Organizer

Steam Pub
Phone
215-942-6468

Venue

Steam Pub
606 2nd Street Pike + Google Map