Simple Minds have announced details of a forest tour, which will seem them perform their greatest hits.

The band will play seven dates next year, starting at Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest in Kent on June 10.

Other gigs are scheduled for Thetford Forest, Suffolk on June 11 and Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire on June 25.

Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr said: "We've never done the forest gigs before so we are really looking forward to performing in such beautiful places."

Special guest support for all dates will be Starsailor frontman James Walsh.

Tickets - priced £35 - go on sale on Friday (December 3) at 9am.

Simple Minds 2011 UK tour dates are:

• Kent, Bedgebury Pinetum & Forest - June 10
• Suffolk, Thetford Forest - 11
• Gloucestershire, Westonbirt Arboretum - 17
• Nottinghamshire, Sherwood Pines Forest Park - 18
• North Yorkshire, Dalby Forest - 24
• Staffordshire, Cannock Chase Forest - 25
• Cheshire, Delamere Forest - July 3

(by Jason Gregory)