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.
