Midge will be the guest on tomorrow (Monday May 11th) nights BBC radio 2 Jools Holland show.... Midge will join Jools and his big band for an interpretation of Man Of The World in a slot where guest artists choose and then perform a favourite song.... Links here and here..

This guest appearence was recorded on Feb. 17th this year.

Midge presents another of his infrequent Radio 4 documentaries, this time focusing on African music from the townships both historically and in 2009 .

Featuring South African act Abavuki the programme was recorded in and around Soweto township in the last week of January this year.

To be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday April 11th at 10.30 AM, listen again will be available on the Radio 4 web page

Ultravox are featured in the April edition of the UK music and record CD review magazine Record Collector.

Info can be found here

Ultravox will play the Isle of Wight Festival on Saturday June 13th 2009.

The band will play the Big Top, mid to late evening.

Tickets are available here

Ultravox will play the long running Lokerse Festival in Belgium on Saturday August 8th 2009.

Tickets are 25 euro in advance, or 30 euro on the day, and will be available here

Midges albums Pure (1991) and Breathe (1996) get repackaged with many extra tracks by Edsel Records (Cat No: EDSD2034 ) for release on April 6th

Track Listings -

Pure

1 I See Hope In The Morning Light
2 This World Has Music
3 Pure Love
4 Sweet 'n Sensitive Thing
5 Let It Go?
6 Rising
7 Light In Your Eyes
8 Little One
9 Hands Around My Heart
10 Waiting Days
11 Tumbling Down

Bonus tracks:
12 Flowers
13 Supernatural
14 I See Hope In The Morning Light [single remix]
15 The Man I Used To Be
16 Madame De Sade
17 Dear God [live]
18 Just For You [live]

BREATHE

1 Breathe
2 Fields Of Fire
3 Fallen Angel
4 Free
5 Guns And Arrows
6 Lay My Body Down
7 Sinnerman
8 Live Forever
9 Trail Of Tears
10 May Your Good Lord
11 The Maker

Bonus tracks:
12 Breathe [live]
13 Man Of The World [live]
14 No Regrets [live]
15 Cold, Cold Heart [live]
16 Trail Of Tears [live]
17 Tor

The soundtrack Midge recorded for the independent movie "Went To Coney Island" is back in print after many years of being unavailable...

For those who don't know the CD it leans musically more towards Move Me than Breathe, and is a good example of "instrumentalUre"

Available here.... go buy it... Richard who did the movie is a nice guy !!!

Midge yesterday recorded a session for future broadcast on Jools Hollands BBC Radio 2 show which goes out every Monday evening at 22.30...exact broadcast date is as yet undecided..

Midge will be on BBC Radio 2 on the Jonathan Ross radio show this Saturday Feb 21st at 10.00 AM, available to listen online here

Just to clarify (somewhat late I know) that the live "extra" tracks on the I tunes download version of "Ten" are from the Intimate Moments 2 CD/DVD and as such are not unreleased in any shape or form.......

If you own IM2 , then you have these tracks already...

Apologies for not making this clear from the outset - we were not kept up to date about the inclusion of these songs on the download version....

An acoustic session is being recorded at Abbey Road studios tomorrow AM, for Absolute Radio (Virgin radio as was) which will be broadcast later in the day - possibly during the drivetime spot from 16.00 onwards...

Info here, the show can be heard online here, or on a radio (!) at 105.8 FM in London, or 1215 AM in the rest of the UK

Midge can be seen on the ITV daytime chat show "Loose Women" on Wednesday September 24th at 12.30 PM...with various repeats during the following few days...

Loose Women has a website here, where clips can be seen.....

"Ten "is now available form the MU shop to preorder...

The first 100 copies will be signed and numbered by Midge...

The CD will start shipping on Monday September 29th to be with you (UK that is) the day after......

Talking about Ten, Ultravox reissues, and life in general !!!!

Usually around 9.05 AM (after the news!) - BBC1...

The BBC has a "watch again" facility called BBC I Player, if you want to try and find BBC Breakfast on it here is the link. ...(good luck!!)

Confirmed a few days ago by EMI are the track listing details, and release dates of the remastered / expanded versions of the Ultravox CDs of Vienna and Rage In Eden

Track listings are -

Ultravox - Vienna (2 CD remastered edition)

Local cat no: CHRX 1296

CD 1:

1. Astradyne

2. New Europeans

3. Private Lives

4. Passing Strangers

5. Sleepwalk

6. Mr. X

7. Western Promise

8. Vienna

9. All Stood Still

CD 2:

1. Sleepwalk (Early Version)

2. Waiting

3. Face To Face (Recorded live at St Albans, 16/8/80)

4. King's Lead Hat (Recorded live at The Lyceum, 17/8/80)

5. Passionate Reply

6. Herr X

7. All Stood Still (12" Version)

8. Alles Klar

9. Keep Talking (Cassette recording during rehearsals)

10.Sleepwalk (Recorded live in rehearsals at The Lyceum,17/8/80) (Previously unreleased)

11.All Stood Still (Recorded live in rehearsals at The Lyceum,17/8/80) (Previously unreleased)

Ultravox - Rage In Eden (2 CD remastered edition)

Local cat no: CHRX 1338

CD 1:

1. The Voice

2. We Stand Alone

3. Rage In Eden

4. I Remember (Death In The Afternoon)

5. The Thin Wall

6. Stranger Within

7. Accent On Youth

8. The Ascent

9. Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again)

CD 2:

1. I Never Wanted To Begin

2. Paths And Angles

3. I Never Wanted To Begin (Extended Version)

4. Private Lives (Recorded live at Crystal Palace, 13/6//81)

5. All Stood Still (Recorded live at Crystal Palace, 13/6/81)

6. I Remember (Death In The Afternoon) (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

7. Stranger Within (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

8. Rage In Eden (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

9. Accent On Youth (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

10.The Ascent (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

11.Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) (Recorded live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1981)

12.Stranger Within (Work in progress mix)

13.The Thin Wall (Work in progress mix)

Release date for both CDs is set for September 22nd

The track listing , cover and release dates for Midges CD of cover versions are all finally with us ...(only taken 25 years eh ??!!)

Track listing is as follows -

1 Alfie.

2 Man Of The World.

3 Goodbye To Love

4 Day After Day

5 Let The Heartaches Begin

6 My Minds Eye

7 Song For While I'm Away

8 Nevermore

9 To Sir With Love

10 Lady Stardust

Release dates are at the moment set as -

UK - September 29th

Europe - October 10th.

Front cover looks like this -

Which in case you were wondering is taken from one of Midges photos, of a famous UK landmark......

The CD will be available for pre order from the MU on line shop approx one week before release date, and will be shipped on 29/9/08

The finished mix of Man Of The World gets an early release on a free CD on cover of the July / August edition of music magazine Rock'n'Reel.

Available from most large newsagents / HMV / whatever Virgin is called now, or try www.rock-n-reel.co.uk. Price is a reasonable £4.25....

We are pleased to announce that Midge has been asked to join the Night Of The Proms shows in Belgium and The Netherlands in October & November 2008.

Midge will be joining the house band, replacing long time MD John Miles who is touring with Tina Turner....

Midge will be playing guitar in the house band as they back the likes of Sinead O'Connor and Simple MInds as well as singing a song or two of his own..

Ticket details can be found on our own gig page and on the official Night Of The Proms web page here

Midge has a guest vocal appearance on a track called "Smile" released on a new CD called "Colour" by an artist called Andy Hunter.....

The guest spot came about at the invitation of the album co - producer Robbie Bronniman (a friend / co keyboard player of Howard Jones) who Midge has known for a long time....Robbie played keyboards at the Wicked Women Breast cancer charity concert that Midge was MD for in Hyde Park, London in July 1999

Samples of the track can be heard here and here....

The song can be purchased via Andys web site - www.andyhunter.com

Two tracks from the long talked about (27 years!!) "covers CD" will be released as a promo single to German radio for the tour in April,

This limited edition (1000 copies) 2 track CD (to be called "Two" ) will also be sold (in an attempt to undermine ebay trade ) at the German shows, and online in the MU shop (shipping to begin after the German tour on April 28th.

The two tracks will be -

1 Man Of The World - Real Player and Windows Media ,

2 Alfie - Real Player and Windows Media

Proposed CD artwork looks like this

The full CD, entiltled "Ten" will follow later this year...date to be discussed

We are very very pleased to be able to announce that Midge will be playing this years Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire on Saturday August 9th.

For those not in the know the festival is hosted by English folk / rock legends Fairport Convention - however the festival should not be considered a "folk festival" by any sense of the word - as this years line up - featuring Supergrass, The Levellers, Joe Brown, The Muffin Men (a Frank Zappa tribute act) is as varied as always....

Midge is playing the prestigious "special guest" spot just prior to Fairports headline slot - typically a 3 hour + show !!

Tickets for the 20,000 capacity event, which generally sells out well in advance will be on sale from March 1st

The release date for this seems to have gone back to December 2008 !!!

We would suspect this means - "forget it" !!!!

If we have any more news we'll let you know !!!

Midge has two tracks - If I Was & Dancing With Tears ...... on a new double CD and DVD (catchily entitled "Das Konzert") of the concert he performed at in Wolfsburg for VW on June 3rd 2007 with the all star band "The Soulmates"

Other artists on the collections include Paul Young, Chris Thompson (from Manfred Manns Earth Band) Nick Van Ede (from The Cutting Crew), Chris De Burgh, Howard Jones, Robin Gibb (the Bee Gee), and German superstar Peter Maffay.

Available (according to Amazon) from January 27th as a double CD and a DVD....

It is unlikley we will have any copies to sell in the online shop, so grab em where you find the best price !!!!

Link to Amazon...which is German (cos its Amazon .de) - but it does show the full track listing.........which I'm not going to type out again here!!!!

Link to DVD info here

 To be released just in time for Christmas is the next Midge Ure shop Live CD from the archives of oblivion....

"A Live Xmas Gift" - as it will be called is taken from a 1985 Radio broadcast of the show at Wembley Arena, with 4 tracks to fill the single CD from Crawley a month earlier in the tour.

Track listing is as follows -

1 When The Wind Blows... Sample - Real Player Windows Media

2. Living In The Past ..........Sample - Real Player Windows Media

3. Wastelands

4. No Regrets

5. After A Fashion

6. The Chieftain

7. Dancer

8. Fade To Grey

9. Sleepwalk

10. If I Was

11. Antilles

12. That Certain Smile

13. The Gift

14. She Cried

The front sleeve looks like this