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Midge Ure - There Was A Lot Of Makeup · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: It's been a while.
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  Speaker 2: He's in town.
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  Speaker 3: Since I heard Mature, If I Was.
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  Speaker 1: He's in town.
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  Speaker 2: He's in town on his catalogue, The Hits Tour. He's
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  Speaker 2: at the Astor Theatre tonight. Bad news, it is sold out.
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  Speaker 2: Good news for him. If you are going, you can
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  Speaker 2: enjoy a set list that spans his entire career from
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  Speaker 2: Rich kids to Thin Lizzy to Ultravox and Visage. You know,
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: choosing between Ultravox's Vienna and Visage's Fade to Grey.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: Is like choosing your favourite child or pet.
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  Speaker 3: Two very iconic songs from that very early 80s period.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, gee, there was a lot of make-up.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of make-up and a lot of synthesiser.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of make-up.
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  Speaker 3: And, of course, he was with Thin Lizzy as well,
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  Speaker 3: as you said, but The other thing about Midgeua that
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  Speaker 3: many people don't know, because he was kind of more
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  Speaker 3: in the background, well, he co-wrote Do They Know It's Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And he co-organised Live Aid.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Only the biggest concert event in music history.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, because Bob Geldof, of course, likes to talk about himself,
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  Speaker 2: but he wasn't the only.
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  Speaker 1: One putting that together. No, Midge was happy to just
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  Speaker 1: kind of hang back in the background. Which is a
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  Speaker 1: little more subtle. Pivotal point.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, so Mitch is in town. Here he is
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  Speaker 3: talking about how he puts such a wide, varied set
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  Speaker 3: list together and understanding that within one crowd, he actually
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  Speaker 3: has two different audiences that he needs to please.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot to get through. I mean, the wonders
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  Speaker 4: of social media, the good stuff is that people tell
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  Speaker 4: you what they'd like to hear or what you haven't heard.
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  Speaker 4: And you've got to think, well, there are certain songs
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  Speaker 4: that you've kind of got to play they expect it
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  Speaker 4: 50 of the audience don't really want to be there
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  Speaker 4: because they're there with other halves who do want to
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  Speaker 4: be there so they're just being polite and they might
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  Speaker 4: only know the big hits so you think i've got
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  Speaker 4: to cater for them as well they've got to hear
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  Speaker 4: something that resonates with them and so you've got the
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  Speaker 4: old stuff you've got the stuff that you want to
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  Speaker 4: play you get the stuff that the hardcore fans want
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  Speaker 4: to play which might be different from the new people
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  Speaker 4: that have come on board because they've heard your music
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  Speaker 4: on a video game or on a Netflix movie or something.
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  Speaker 4: So you've got to try and tick all those boxes
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  Speaker 4: for a person, but you've still got to make yourself happy.
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  Speaker 1: Midge is Scottish, by the way, if you hadn't picked
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  Speaker 1: that up.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to town, Midge. Great show tonight at 7 o'clock
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  Speaker 2: because we's old.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's an early matinee show.