Soft-spoken when you speak to him and fierce when he’s facing the audience, Midge Ure may seem to embody contradiction – and such a core of this artist’s personality is also, perhaps, the very root of his creative vim, or élan if you prefer to focus on Ure’s elegance – something that he took to the fore with VISAGE, which he helped form, with ULTRAVOX, which he transformed, and of course, with his solo career. Midge last issued fresh music under his own name a decade prior to our tête-à-tête prefacing his Toronto show, but, as his performance proved in style, the seventy-year-old still feels relevant.
Read the interview.
