Midge Ure Announces October 2025 New Zealand Tour
UK legend Midge Ure brings his band and extensive catalogue to New Zealand for an unmissable national tour this October 2025, with all the hits from his superb solo career plus favourites from his bands Ultravox, The Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy and Visage.
Midge Ure announces October 2025 New Zealand tour
Catalogue: The Hits tour
with solo classics, Ultravox, Visage + much more
Plus1 is delighted to present Midge Ure live in New Zealand:
Thurs 23 October – James Hay – CHRISTCHURCH
Friday 24 October – Meow Nui – WELLINGTON
Saturday 25 October – Powerstation – AUCKLAND
The Plus1 48-hour presale begins 9am Tuesday 8th April at plus1.co.nz
Tickets are on general sale at plus1.co.nz from 9am Thursday 10th April.
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Touring New Zealand for the first time since 2020, Scottish-born Midge Ure has been fearlessly innovative over the years – with his classic songs like ‘Fade to Grey’ (Visage), ‘Vienna’, ‘Hymn’, and ‘Dancing With Tears in My Eyes’ (Ultravox), and solo gems like ‘If I Was’, and ‘Breathe’.
Ure has featured in various significant moments in music history, His work co-writing and producing ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ for Band Aid, and subsequent role in Live Aid, enshrined him alongside Bob Geldof as one of the most important figures in British music.
Ure has been a firm favourite with New Zealand audiences, dating back to his first show here with electro-pop legends Ultravox at Sweetwaters festival in 1982. Subsequent solo tours in 2015, 2017 and 2020 resulted in sold out shows and acclaimed reviews.
“I performed live long before I was ever allowed anywhere near a recording studio and as much as I love spending time writing and recording, live music remains my first love. This ‘Catalogue’ tour will allow me to not only play a wide selection of hits from my past but perform some of the most requested favourites. Revisiting these moments from my musical life is something I am really looking forward to sharing.” Midge Ure.
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About Midge Ure
Musical success is seldom measured in time spans of more than a few years, if not Andy Warhol’s often quoted “fifteen minutes”, so the fact that by the time Midge Ure’s single ‘If I Was’ went to No1 in 1985 he had already crammed several musical lifetimes into a 10 year professional career speaks volumes – Slik, The Rich Kids, Thin Lizzy, Visage, Ultravox, and of course the most famous one-off group in musical history Band Aid – had by then all had the guiding hand of his musical navigation.
Then you have to take account of Ure’s musical directorship of a series of rock concerts for The Prince’s Trust, Night of the Proms, Wicked Women for Breakthrough and in honour of Nelson Mandela; record production for Phil Lynott, Steve Harley and countless others; his video direction of memorable hits by Fun Boy Three, Bananarama and others, or a whole swathe of landmark singles by Ultravox; TV, theatre and film music credits ranging from ‘Max Headroom’ to stage and big screen.
Ure appeared to the wider public in a moment of heady teen success with Slik. Their sway-along single ‘Forever And Ever’ took over at No.1 in the UK from Abba’s ‘Mamma Mia’ on Valentine’s Day 1976.
Soon outgrowing Slik’s pop dimensions, Ure was snapped up by ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock the following year for his new outfit Rich Kids, who charted amid an avalanche of press with a self-titled EMI single early in 1978. By 1979, with his name being added to many musicians’ contact book, Ure had been asked by Billy Currie, Chris Cross and Warren Cann to become the new frontman of Ultravox.
And that was just the start of his extraordinary career.
