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Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy

Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy

Update: 2025-07-13
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Midge Ure is a musical chameleon, his career having taken him from boy band, Slik (stable mates of the Bay City Rollers), to punk band, Rich Kids (with ex-Sex Pistol, Glen Matlock), to singer, guitarist and keyboard player with Ultravox, penning one of the great New Romantic anthems, “Vienna”. For the past thirty years he’s been a solo artist with an ever-evolving songbook and later this year he’s bringing it to Australia. He talks to Andy about his varied career and why Ultravox was never really synth pop – not when their biggest hit contained a viola solo.

Nina Korbe is Koa, Kuku Yalanji, and Wakka Wakka singer and broadcaster. She joins Andy to talk about her operatic and music theatre career on the rise, and her advocacy work introducing kids from her family's traditional lands to orchestral performance.

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Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy

Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy

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