Steve Orme writer

04/09/2026

What would you do? Let me have your comments.

03/09/2026

Only a month to go before you can find out how a hostage negotiator operates.

02/09/2026

One month go to. The countdown starts now.

09/07/2026

Kezia Gill: one of country music's brightest stars

There aren’t many musicians in the East Midlands who can say they’ve had as much success as Kezia Gill. She’s reported to be one of country music’s brightest stars: last year she was voted live act of the year at the UK Americana Awards and her latest album entered the official UK Country Music Chart at number one.

Not only that but the album All On Red was recorded at the world’s major centre for country music: Nashville in Tennessee.

It’s a long way from the days when she was a child watching her father singing in working men’s clubs. The man who used the stage name Eddie McGill was a “huge influence” on her and she learned so much from him.

“He was a singer and used to gig sometimes seven nights a week. He did summer seasons in Skegness, Corfu, Majorca and we we’d all go as a family. I’d just watch the master at work and spent my life wanting to do what he did.”

05/06/2026

Theatre review of Little Shop of Horrors (Based on the film by Roger Corman, screenplay by Charles Griffith, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken) from Derby Theatre and Northern Stage at Derby Theatre - reviewer: Steve Orme

21/05/2026

Theatre review of Scenes from a Friendship (Jane Upton) from Nottingham Playhouse at Nottingham Playhouse - reviewer: Steve Orme

18/05/2026

MIDGE URE: FIRST NEW MATERIAL FOR 12 YEARS

He’s one of the most recognisable figures not just in pop culture but society generally: Midge Ure is known for co-writing the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? and organising the Live Aid concerts with Bob Geldof.

But for more than a decade he’s been fairly quiet. Now Midge is preparing for the release of his first new material for 12 years. So why has it taken him so long to come up with new songs?

“I’m lazy. I’ve got loads of excuses,” he jokes before revealing a number of reasons why recently he hasn’t given his fans anything to get excited about.

“Part of it is the amount of time it takes to write songs. I don’t sit down and write a bunch of songs and then go into the studio and record them. I write the songs in the studio, so I’ve got a seed of an idea and I sit here and I create the entire thing, all the musical parts and the lyrics.

“Sometimes that takes a week and sometimes it takes three years just to get it the way you want it. And because I do all this on my own – there’s no engineer, there are no other musicians near me – the only way I can tell whether what I’m working on is any good is to walk away from it. You leave it, go and do something else and come back to it. Instinctively you’ll know whether it’s worth finishing."

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He’s one of the most recognisable figures not just in pop culture but society generally: Midge Ure is known for co-writing the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? and organising the Live Aid concerts with Bob Geldof.

30/04/2026

Theatre review of Small Island (Adapted by Helen Edmundson, based on the novel by Andrea Levy) from Leeds Playhouse, Birmingham Rep and Nottingham Playhouse in association with Actors Touring Company at Nottingham Playhouse - reviewer: Steve Orme

28/04/2026

PODCAST EPISODE: Birmingham Rep returns to Shakespeare with Dream

Birmingham Rep is to present its first Shakespeare play for ten years. Joe Murphy who became artistic director 12 months ago is directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream along with deputy artistic director Madeleine Kludje.

BTG Midlands editor Steve Orme spoke to Joe and Madeleine about their take on the play before chatting to three of the cast, Evie Ward-Drummond, Isabel Adomakoh Young and Charlotte Wallis.
https://btguide.libsyn.com/birmingham-rep-returns-to-shakespeare-with-dream

27/04/2026

Steve Orme Interviews Midge Ure!

He’s one of the most recognisable figures not just in pop culture but society generally: Midge Ure is known for co-writing the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? and organising the Live Aid concerts with Bob Geldof.

But for more than a decade he’s been fairly quiet. Now Midge is preparing for the release of his first new material for 12 years. So why has it taken him so long to come up with new songs?

“I’m lazy. I’ve got loads of excuses,” he jokes before revealing a number of reasons why recently he hasn’t given his fans anything to get excited about.
Read the full interview here and for more details on booking your tickets for his 'A Man Of Two Worlds tour' at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham on Saturday May 30th
https://countryimagesmagazine.co.uk/featured/steve-orme-interviews-midge-ure/