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Midge’s photo book documents life with Ultravox
Midge Ure will release In A Picture Frame, later this month, a new photo book that documents his life with Ultravox in the early 1980s.
Between 1980 and 1985, the Scottish musician travelled with his trusty Canon A-1 camera while on tour, in the studio or undertaking promotional duties with the band. Healso documented holidays and far flung road trips.
Ure’s photographic archive has now been scanned and retouched from the original negatives to showcase these images and produce this 240-page travelogue (which has dimensions of 290mm x 220mm x 32mm and weighs in at 2kg).
The book is released on 18 November 2021 and can be pre-ordered exclusively from the official shop. It can be bought with a set of signed postcards or on its own (not signed).
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It’s really cool that he thought to document this period so well, such a treasure trove.
Firstly. love Midge Ure. Saw him in San Francisco at an intimate venue with Paul Young. The concert remains one of my favourites. Went to order this book and postcards, THEN the shipping of £42 came up! That’s outrageous. BREXIT really F’ed things up. I can’t afford £101 now…for one book.
Wow – you can buy the signed set of cards on their own. I may pick up the book later, but I suspect the bundles with signatures will run out sooner than I can afford it with the big Bowie box and other releases this year.
Had to think for a moment where that line is from. “In a picture frame” … “In a picture frame” … Vienna, of course.
Midge must have one of the best current CVs in the music business
Nice if it’s your thing. I would’ve liked a 40th anniversary edition of Rage In Eden (and how did the Human League slip up on a 40th anniversary edition of Dare?). But I suppose with the way the world is today, it would be a tall order.
There’s plenty of time for a Dare reissue it’s only November :-D
The anniversary tour starts in December I think
Trainspotter note: The top self-portrait in the backstage mirror looks to have been taken with an Olympus XA, not the Canon A1. You can recognize it by the company logo on the slide-aside lens cover, and the distinctive detachable side-mount flash. That little Olympus was a great design, small enough to fit in a jeans pocket, and I took mine everywhere in the early 80s.
There is something off with those dimensions Paul :)
Whoops. Fixed.
Paul, are we going to get a Abba “Voyage” review? I’m itching to read a sensible review as opposed to the tabloid level media ones currently doing the rounds who seem like they have a personal gripe with the band. I wasn’t keen on their single campaign, the avatars thing but the music will obviously speak for itself…
Yes, ‘track by track’ coming.
That lamp on the bedside table has an intriguing prominence.
Midge Ure is, in my eyes, an architect of the 80’s and should he held up as more of a national treasure than he is.
This is verrrry tempting, although £40 for a book to a CD person is a ‘considered purchase’!
I often wonder how big Ultravox may have become if Midge hadn’t left. Granted their success is hardly no small feat in itself but (despite being a fan) Midge’s solo works never quite capture that level of magic IMHO.
I often think it’s unfair they get slated for being so po-faced/serious when bands like U2 were equally as guilty of that. I must relisten to Brilliant thinking about it, here’s hoping one day they’ll release a follow-up to that.
An Evening in Conversation with Midge Ure
Midge will be interviews by Ronnie Gurr as part of the British Music Experience in Liverpool on Dec 9th. Tickets go on sale this Friday 5th November 2021. More details here https://www.britishmusicexperience.com/evening-with-midge-ure
The correct size is
290x220x32mm ;o)
500 signed copies have also been made available to independent book stores. For instance, Coles and Flood have signed pre – order copies available.