A Walk Across The Rooftops

AWATR talks to the man with perhaps the most varied career in Scottish pop. In his 50+ years making music, Midge Ure has been a boy band member, a punk, a post-punk, a new romantic, a synth pop pioneer - not to mention the owner of the sharpest side burns in the business.We talk to Midge about the early days in Stumble, Salvation and Slik, his pioneering desire to marry synths and punk in The Rich Kids, Visage and Ultravox, and being the musical driving force behind Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'Midge also talks about his creative identity: "I'm a Scottish artist before I'm anything else. Absolutely. When I've got a bit of time off and I'm up in Glasgow, I'll go back to Cambuslang and I walk around the streets. It's not nostalgia. I walk around the streets to remind me that I got what I wished for." His rich, rewarding new double album, A Man of Two Worlds, his first for 12 years,  is released on May 8th. Midge is touring the UK throughout May and June: http://www.midgeure.co.uk/shows.html