Whatever Happened to Midge Ure? Interview Interview He Should Be a National Treasure . . . So Why Is He Leaving for Canada?
Sunday Herald › November 26, 2007
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IN Weston-Super-Mare on a grim November afternoon, the tide has left the amusement pier high and dry. There isn't even enough water to reflect the feeble sunlight in this out-of-season, out-ofthe-way place. The nearby Playhouse theatre promises an intimate evening of music and song with Midge Ure a 1980s pop icon, the co-founder of Band Aid and now an ageing singer-songwriter whose career seems to be fizzling out in the cold Bristol Channel.
When I meet Ure in his small, bare dressing room it is 4.30pm and the sound-check is an hour away. He tells me about the time when he was soundchecking at a venue and someone came to the stage door to buy tickets for what he thought was a Midge Ure tribute band: "When the guy found out it really was me playing, he decided he didn't want the tickets after all." Ure, 54, laughs at the irony, unperturbed that some of his fans still prefer the sepia memory of his Ultravox-era moustache, the razored sideburns and the demob suit.See the full content of this document
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Whatever Happened to Midge Ure? Interview Interview He Should Be a National Treasure . . . So Why Is He Leaving for Canada?
The real Midge Ure has, however, moved on a long way since the days of Vienna's chart-topping success, and the poster for tonight's show says nothing about Ultravox or Band Aid. Ure is doing what he says he has always wanted to do: making music. The stripped-down set is basically Midge Ure on stage with a guitar. While his friends and tour managers set up equipment for the performance, he tells me that last night he played on the other side of the country, in Hull, and sold out. Next month Ure will be back in Scotland to take part in Burnsong, a festival tribute to Robert Burn...
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