Bristol O2 Academy – 23rd September 2022
Following the overwhelming response to 2019’s ‘The 1980 Tour’, Midge Ure & Band Electronica are delighted to finally return to the road in 2022 and 2023 with the ‘Voice & Visions’ tour, celebrating 40 years since the release of Ultravox’s Rage In Eden and Quartet albums.
At the start of 1981, Ultravox were laying their claim to be one of the defining acts of the 80s following the global success of hit ‘Vienna’. Heading back into the studio the same year invigorated, they recorded their second album with Ure as frontman, Rage in Eden, which hit the Top 5 in the UK album charts. Quartet, their third album with Ure, came in quick succession in 1982 with production from legendary Beatles producer George Martin. Continuing the band’s impressive chart run, it became their third Top 10 album, featuring four Top 20 singles including the anthem ‘Hymn’.
The ‘Voice & Visions’ tour has 4 dates in September starting at the Bristol O2 Academy on the 23rd through to Hasting White Rock Theatre on the 27th September. The extensive 2023 leg of the tour will begin at Sheffield City Hall on 24th April visiting an astounding 31 cities across the UK before culminating at Swindon Meca on 31st May. Transporting fans back to the decade of electronics, experimentation, synthesizers and great songwriting, the albums highlights will be showcased alongside landmark hits from Ure’s incredible back catalogue.
Midge Ure said of the tour;
‘I can’t begin to tell you how great it feels to be back out touring after the uncertainty of the past two years and it is especially exciting to delve back in time and revitalise two standout albums from my career, Rage in Eden and Quartet. This is the logical and emotional follow up to the 1980 tour’
Tickets on sale from midgeure.gigantic.com and venue box offices.
MIDGE URE & BAND ELECTRONICA 2022/2023 DATES
23-Sept-22 Bristol O2 Academy
24-Sept-22 London Roundhouse
26-Sept-22 Norwich Theatre Royal
27-Sept-22 Hastings White Rock Theatre
24-Apr-23 Sheffield City Hall
25-Apr-23 Torquay Princess Theatre
27-Apr-23 Brighton Theatre Royal
28-Apr-23 Ipswich Regent Theatre
29-Apr-23 Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
30-Apr-23 York Grand Opera House
2-May-23 Guildford G Live
3-May-23 Southampton Engine Rooms
4-May-23 Cornwall Hall for Cornwall
6-May-23 Poole Lighthouse
7-May-23 Southend Cliffs Pavilion
8-May-23 Cardiff Tramshed
10-May-23 Bath Forum
11-May-23 Bradford King George’s Hall
12-May-23 Hull Bonus Arena
13-May-23 Stockton On Tees Globe
15-May-23 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
16-May-23 Blackburn King George’s Hall
18-May-23 Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom
19-May-23 Edinburgh Usher Hall
20-May-23 Aberdeen Music Hall
21-May-23 Newcastle O2 City Hall
23-May-23 Northampton Royal & Derngate
24-May-23 Leicester De Montfort Hall
25-May-23 Birmingham Symphony Hall
26-May-23 Cambridge Corn Exchange
28-May-23 Manchester Albert Hall
29-May-23 Llandudno Venue Cymru
30-May-23 Nottingham Rock City
31-May-23 Swindon Meca