Midge Ure - Fragile - The London Palladium - 19-11-2024

(Catalogue: The Hits Tour) Midge Ure has announced details of a 2024 UK headline tour. The soloist and former Ultravox frontman is due to head out on the road with his ‘Catalogue: The Hits’ playing tracks from his extensive career at the forthcoming shows: “I performed live long before I was ever allowed anywhere near a recording studio and as much as I love spending time writing and recording, live music remains my first love,” Ure said in a statement. “This ‘Catalogue’ tour will allow me to not only play a wide selection of hits from my past but perform some of the most requested favourites. Revisiting these moments from my musical life is something I am really looking forward to sharing.” James "Midge" Ure OBE (born 10 October 1953) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim. Ure enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, Rich Kids, Visage, and as the second frontman of Ultravox. In 1984, he co-wrote and produced the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", which has sold 3.7 million copies in the UK. The song is the second-highest-selling single in UK chart history. Ure co-organised Band Aid, Live Aid and Live 8 with Bob Geldof. He acts as a trustee for the charity and also serves as an ambassador for Save the Children. Ure is the producer and writer of several other synth-pop and new wave hit singles of the 1980s, including "Fade to Grey" (1980) by Visage and the Ultravox signature songs "Vienna" (1980), "Hymn" (1983) and "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" (1984).[3] He achieved his first UK top 10 solo hit in 1982 with "No Regrets". In 1985, his solo debut studio album The Gift reached number two in the UK Albums Chart and yielded the UK Singles Chart number-one single "If I Was". He also co-wrote Phil Lynott's "Yellow Pearl", which served as the theme of Top of the Pops for much of the 1980s. Solo discography: The Gift (1985) Answers to Nothing (1988) Pure (1991) Breathe (1996) Move Me (2000) 10 (2008) Fragile (2014) Orchestrated (2017) Ultravox Studio albums: Ultravox! (1977) Ha!-Ha!-Ha! (1977) Systems of Romance (1978) Vienna (1980) Rage in Eden (1981) Quartet (1982) Lament (1984) U-Vox (1986) Revelation (1993) Ingenuity (1994) Brill!ant (2012) #midgeure