Midge Ure

  • Glasgow, Scotland
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  • 1972
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One of the key members of the new wave band Ultravox, guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music career with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join the Rich Kids, a punk-pop group led by former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock. The Rich Kids only released one album, 1978's Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that same year. Ure spent a brief time with the Misfits (not the American hardcore band) before forming Visage with drummer Rusty Egan and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy, who left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was finished, he fulfilled an agreement to join Ultravox.

Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley and Modern Man. In 1982, Ure released a solo single, a cover of the Walker Brothers' hit "No Regrets"; it climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. Ure and Bob Geldof formed Band Aid, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. The two wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and assembled an all-star band of British musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season and prompted Geldof to organize the benefit concert Live Aid in 1985.

In 1985, Ultravox was put on hiatus and Ure began to pursue a full-time solo career. Recorded entirely by Ure, his 1985 solo debut, The Gift, launched the number one single "If I Was," as well as the minor hits "That Certain Smile" and "Call of the Wild." The following year, he recorded the final Ultravox album; in 1987, the band broke up and he began recording his second solo album. The resulting record, 1988's Answers to Nothing, was less successful than The Gift in the U.K., yet it charted in the U.S., which is something Ure's previous album failed to do. Three years later, Ure released his third album, Pure; while it didn't do any business in America, the album featured the Top 20 British hit "Cold, Cold Heart." He attempted a comeback in 1996 with Breathe, which went ignored by both the American and British markets. After being released in his native U.K. in 1998, Answers to Nothing followed in mid-2000, as well as a soundtrack effort for the critically acclaimed 1998 drama-comedy starring Jon Cryer, Went to Coney Island. Move Me appeared on Koch in fall 2001. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Tour Dates

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  • May 18 Saturday
    Cookham, UK Marsh Meadow
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  • May 18 Saturday
    Cookham, UK Marsh Meadow
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  • May 23 Thursday
    Sheffield, UK Sheffield City Hall
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  • May 23 Thursday
    Salford, UK Salford Music Festival
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  • May 24 Friday
    Sale, UK Waterside Arts Centre
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  • May 25 Saturday
    Stockton-on-tees, UK ARC
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  • May 26 Sunday
    Tewkesbury, UK Bishops Cleeve Tithe Barn
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  • May 29 Wednesday
    Harrogate, UK Harrogate Theatre
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  • May 30 Thursday
    Lincoln, UK Drill Hall
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  • Jun 1 Saturday
    Sankt Goarshausen, Germany Loreley Freilichtbühne
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  • Jun 1 Saturday
    Inzell, Germany Max Aicher Arena
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  • Jun 2 Sunday
    Inzell, Germany Max Aicher Arena
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  • Jun 6 Thursday
    Bilston, UK Robin 2
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  • Jun 7 Friday
    Milton Keynes, UK The Stables
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  • Jul 12 Friday
    Hampton, UK Hampton Pool
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  • Aug 3 Saturday
    Wilhelmshaven, Germany Pumpwerk-park
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  • Sep 29 Sunday
    Southampton, UK The Brook
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  • Oct 19 Saturday
    St Helens, UK Citadel Arts Center
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  • Oct 24 Thursday
    Oberhausen, Germany Zentrum Altenberg
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  • Oct 28 Monday
    Augsburg, Germany Spectrum Club
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  • Oct 30 Wednesday
    Roth, Germany Kulturfabrik
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  • Nov 2 Saturday
    Osnabrück, Germany Rosenhof
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Discography

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  • "10" (2008)
    Midge Ure
    "10" (2008)
    Hypertension Music
  • Relive (2005)
    Midge Ure
    Relive (2005)
    Hypertension Music
  • A Glorious Noise: Breathe Live (2001)
    Midge Ure
    A Glorious Noise: Breathe Live (2001)
    Environment
  • Little Orphans: The Black and White Sessions (2001)
    Midge Ure
    Little Orphans: The Black and White Sessions (2001)
    Environment
  • Move Me (2001)
    Midge Ure
    Move Me (2001)
    Koch Records
  • Went to Coney Island (2000)
    Midge Ure
    Went to Coney Island (2000)
    Evenmore Entertainment
  • Live in Concert (1999)
    Midge Ure
    Live in Concert (1999)
    Strange Fruit
  • Breathe (1996)
    Midge Ure
    Breathe (1996)
    RCA Victor
  • Pure (1991)
    Midge Ure
    Pure (1991)
    RCA Records
  • Answers to Nothing (1988)
    Midge Ure
    Answers to Nothing (1988)
    EMI - (U.K.)
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