Tag Archives: Midge Ure

Blancmange and Midge Ure Join Up For North American Mini-Tour This May

Posted on February 28, 2025 by postpunkmonk

We’ve already written about the Cruel World Festival that brings a mixture of New Wave vets and contemporary Darkwave bands into a large pot and applies the heat. It’s a huge, fun show that often sees PPM royalty jetting over … Continue reading →

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Ten Years Ago, The World Became A Little Less STRANGE [pt. 2]

Posted on February 13, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Steve Harrington was a Welsh music fan swept up in the drama of Punk Rock sweeping across the UK, even in relatively quiet and bucolic Wales. Seeing the Sex Pistols in 1976 lit a fire, and he was soon booking … Continue reading →

Posted in Bowie, Core Collection, Designed By Peter Saville, New Romantic, Scots Rock | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 2]

Posted on September 11, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from this post] Today we’ll continue and hopefully finish looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer of other peoples records. We got into this a few weeks ago and I knew the timing was … Continue reading →

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Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 1]

Posted on August 29, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Today we’ll start looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer only. I swore that I’d already posted on this before, but inasmuch as I may have mentioned it, the nuts and bolts of it remained … Continue reading →

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Midge Ure Busily Touring World Stages In 2024

Posted on July 8, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Commenter Schwenko just dropped a note a week or two ago letting me know that Midge Ure is up to his old tricks, touring in America, but a closer look tells us that there’s no stopping the man as he … Continue reading →

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UK’s Record Store Day 2024 Still Surprises

Posted on February 29, 2024 by postpunkmonk

There were so many things of interest in the US that that I wondered… if the US was getting the Core Collection likes of OMD and Ultravox, what, if anything, would be UK-only items of interest? I needn’t have worried, … Continue reading →

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Midge Ure Has A Gift Box Ready For Our Ears

Posted on August 25, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Yow! The “Quartet” ultrabox has barely cooled from shipping [I’ve not started reviewing it yet owing to lack of time] and already the next step in the Midge Ure SDLX reissue program is ready to hit the pavement! In a … Continue reading →

Posted in BSOG, Core Collection, Designed By Peter Saville, Live Music, Mid-80s Malaise, New Romantic, Scots Rock, Want List | Tagged , , , , | 11 Comments