A Walk Across The Rooftops Wed, 06 May 2026 15:21:38 +0100 https://awalkacrosstherooftopspodcast.buzzsprout.com en-gb © 2026 A Walk Across The Rooftops yes 151c3111-3a43-5475-8338-c5c04f650cdd Graeme episodic false A new Scottish music podcast presented by Graeme Thomson and Teddy Jamieson. Covering mainstream hits and underground innovation, major league stars and cult heroes, champions and underdogs, we throw open the skylights to artists, albums, songs, cities, themes, scenes, moments and connections to create a kaleidoscopic history of Scottish music from the late 1950s to the present. Featuring exclusive new interviews with Scottish artists from across the spectrum. 

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Graeme https://storage.buzzsprout.com/emaf85j9wkdf0xd4q4s1kkk2u5kr?.jpg A Walk Across The Rooftops A Walk Across The Rooftops #1, with Midge Ure A Walk Across The Rooftops #1, with Midge Ure AWATR talks to the man with perhaps the most varied career in Scottish pop. In his 50+ years making music, Midge Ure has been a boy band member, a punk, a post-punk, a new romantic, a synth pop pioneer - not to mention the owner of the sharpest side burns in the business.

We talk to Midge about the early days in Stumble, Salvation and Slik, his pioneering desire to marry synths and punk in The Rich Kids, Visage and Ultravox, and being the musical driving force behind Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Midge also talks about his creative identity: "I'm a Scottish artist before I'm anything else. Absolutely. When I've got a bit of time off and I'm up in Glasgow, I'll go back to Cambuslang and I walk around the streets. It's not nostalgia. I walk around the streets to remind me that I got what I wished for." 

His rich, rewarding new double album, A Man of Two Worlds, his first for 12 years,  is released on May 8th. Midge is touring the UK throughout May and June: http://www.midgeure.co.uk/shows.html

]]> AWATR talks to the man with perhaps the most varied career in Scottish pop. In his 50+ years making music, Midge Ure has been a boy band member, a punk, a post-punk, a new romantic, a synth pop pioneer - not to mention the owner of the sharpest side burns in the business.

We talk to Midge about the early days in Stumble, Salvation and Slik, his pioneering desire to marry synths and punk in The Rich Kids, Visage and Ultravox, and being the musical driving force behind Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Midge also talks about his creative identity: "I'm a Scottish artist before I'm anything else. Absolutely. When I've got a bit of time off and I'm up in Glasgow, I'll go back to Cambuslang and I walk around the streets. It's not nostalgia. I walk around the streets to remind me that I got what I wished for." 

His rich, rewarding new double album, A Man of Two Worlds, his first for 12 years,  is released on May 8th. Midge is touring the UK throughout May and June: http://www.midgeure.co.uk/shows.html

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