вЂњI think maybe there was a moment when we put the French spoken vocal on it, and it just seemed to gel. вЂњI knew there was something magical about the track,вЂќ says Ure. They scored a top ten hit with вЂњFade to GreyвЂќ in 1980. But half the band loved it.вЂќ After one album, Ure left the Rich Kids with his new instrument and drummer Rusty Egan to form Visage, a studio project fronted by singer Steve Strange. Things started to get shaky when Ure wanted to introduce a synthesizer. Then, we went to a warehouse party with Sid and Nancy and Billy Idol and the Clash, all these people IвЂ™d been reading about. вЂњThe support band didnвЂ™t show up, so we went and played the three songs IвЂ™d just learned. вЂњMy first weekend there, I learned three songs with the Rich Kids, and we went out that night and we opened up for the Police,вЂќ says Ure. In 1977, the 24-year-old Ure moved to London and joined ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock and his band, the Rich Kids, immersing himself in the nascent punk scene. Any means of escape for me was purely fantasy - it was music, it was imagination, it was dreaming of getting a guitar and standing on stage. вЂњI lived in a tenement, on derelict, empty streets. вЂњMy formative years were in this soon-to-be-demolished slum,вЂќ he says. Ure was born in Cambuslang, just outside Glasgow. tour will be his first in-person shows since the beginning of the pandemic. вЂњBecause of this enforced lockdown, 50 percent of my time is taken up in this little box, writing and recording,вЂќ he says in a warm brogue, gesturing to the purple room from which heвЂ™s been hosting intimate livestreams. The Scottish-born Ure lives in Bath, Somerset, a hundred miles west of London. Founded by Brian Serpone, Paul Nelson, and Scott Cornella, the space hosts concerts by both big and lesser-known names six nights a week. The intimate venue, accommodating 88 people, has been open since Memorial Day weekend. 28, Ure will be performing вЂњUnzoomed & Face to FaceвЂќ at the Music Room in West Yarmouth. (Photo Heiko Roth)Д«ona fide rock star Midge Ure has been with us, in varying degrees, ever since. Its title track spent four weeks at number two in the U.K. By the 1980s, after passing through the bands Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy, and Visage, Midge Ure started fronting the English synth-rock band Ultravox. Slik dissolved, but MidgeвЂ™s name endured. The nickname was originally given to him to avoid confusion with Jim McGinlay, the bassist in one of his first bands, Slik. The name on the screen for our Zoom call says вЂњJames Ure.вЂќ But Ure is better known as Midge, a phonetic reversal of the name Jim.

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