Ultravox
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Ultravox! New Music From A Doll's House
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 19 March 1977
CONTRARY to what Stranglers' bassist, Jean Jacques Brunel, is reputed to think, Ultravox! are not "a bunch of session musicians put together by Island records." ...
Profile and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1981
HEY BUNKY, are ya feelin' low because the whirlwind East Coast tour you were promised turned out to be two weeks at Vinnie's Peppermint Lounge ...
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Ultravox: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 20 November 1976
MAYBE IT was just the crowd, but nobody seemed able to generate much atmosphere and excitement on this Tuesday night at the Nashville. Support band ...
Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
"I want more bands like us. I want people to go out and start something, to see us and start something, or else I'm just ...
New Releases: The Kids Err Alright
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977
REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 13 August 1977
THE THING about Ultravox is that they're ultra-confident — and cynical observers haven't failed to point out that confidence comes easy when it's backed by ...
Ultravox: Patchy Enough, But Powerful
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, September 1977
ULTRAVOX HAVE come in for their share of criticism since Island Records launched them with a bang eight months ago and amidst the flashing lights ...
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 22 October 1977
FLICKING IDLY through a rack and coming across an album entitled ha! ha! ha!, you'd expect, if not a comic masterpiece, at least a couple ...
Ultravox: Vee Hav Vays Of Makink You Experiment
Report and Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 2 September 1978
Unfortunately, this piece is not about Germans. It's about ULTRAVOX. However, it does take place in Germany. Will that do? ...
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 9 September 1978
The Further Decline And Fall Of The Western World ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1978
I HOPE you're sitting comfortably, because this could be quite long... ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, January 1979
ZZ: THE MATERIAL on your first album strikes me as not being as unconventional as some of your later stuff, it's pretty straightforward. Does that ...
Ultravox: The Low-Budget Way To See The U.S.A.
Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 14 June 1979
AS RECENTLY AS January, Britain’s Ultravox — purveyors of highly stylized, often outré music alternately reminiscent of Pink Floyd, Brian Eno and Roxy Music — ...
Review by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 5 July 1980
HERE'S the first Ultravox album since signing to Chrysalis, and the first since Midge Ure filled the space left by John Foxx. The new lead ...
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 18 August 1980
IN THE SEARCH to perfect a commodity which is being touted as White European Dance Music, Ultravox now occupy the ground between Gary Numan, who ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 September 1980
WHEN GARY NUMAN was talking to the press every day of the week, unsurely basking in the cold sunshine of a sudden fame, a lot ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 3 September 1981
Ian Birch previews the new Ultravox album with the help of Midge Ure + Chris Cross. ...
Ultravox: Rage In Eden (Chrysalis)
Review by Iman Lababedi, Creem, January 1982
HEIL! HEIL! WE'RE THE VOXIES ...
Ultravox: Number 1 With A Bullet Train
Report and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 20 March 1982
HUGH FIELDER goes along for the ride with ULTRAVOX in Japan ...
Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, June 1983
ALL YOU NEED Is Synth. Producer George Martin sez these guys are the most musical band he's worked with since you-know-who. So, what'd you expect ...
The Half-Dozen or so Moods of Ultravox
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, July 1983
ONSTAGE, THE amazing Ultravox. Right in front, on the edge of the area called the pit — not, unfortunately, in my honor — myself and ...
Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 12 February 1986
He's had a hand in almost every type of pop group imaginable: he was number one in 1976 with "teenybop" group Slik, almost become singer ...
Ultravox: Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow
Live Review by Betty Page, Record Mirror, 15 November 1986
THERE WERE no Gothic monstrosities on stage. No pompous gestures, no frills, no Warren Cann. This was the new, lean version of Ultravox, and they ...
One Nation Under a Moog: How Britain Went Synthpop
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 10 October 2009
As new BBC4 documentary Synth Britannia shows, the synthesizer first dehumanised then re-humanised British pop, fulfilled the DIY promise of punk, and changed how bands ...
Ultravox: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 28 September 2012
REFORMED BANDS almost always find it nigh-on impossible to recapture the musical glories they routinely summoned up in their pomp. Ultravox may be a unique ...
Interview by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 2 September 2016
The leader of the original Ultravox on challenging the punk era's orthodoxies and the band as an art project ...
see also Rich Kids, The
see also Slik
see also Midge Ure
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