3 days ago
Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy
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.
Nina Korbe performs as Musetta in Opera Queendsland's La bohème in September.
Midge Ure tours Australia in October. Full dates here.
Music in this program:
Title: Kanana
Artist: Bumpy
Composer: Amy Dowd, Mick Power
Album: Kanana (due 3 October)
Label: Astral People Recordings
Title: Vienna
Artist: Ultravox
Composer: Chris Allen, James Ure, Warren Reginald Cann, William Lee Currie
Album: Vienna
Label: Chrysalis
Title: Forever and Ever
Artist: Slik
Composer: Bill Martin, Phil Coulter
Album: Slik
Label: Bell Records
Title: Put You in the Picture
Artist: Rich Kids
Composer: James Ure
Album: Ghosts of Princes in Towers
Label: EMI
Title: If I Was
Artist: Midge Ure
Composer: James Ure
Album: The Gift
Label: Chrysalis
Title: Shéhérazade (extract)
Artist: Nina Korbe, Queensland Youth Symphony, Simon Hewett
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Courtesy of QYO
Title: Somewhere from West Side Story
Artist: Nina Korbe
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Courtesy of ABC Classic
Title: Gone a Long Time
Artist: Billy Strings
Composer: Billy Strings, Jarrod Walker
Album: Highway Prayers
Label: Reprise
The Music Show is produced on Gadigal and Gundungurra Country
