Your Brother Should Know
Dave and Rob didn’t share a childhood, so they’re sharing the music that shaped them instead
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Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
In a Your Brother Should Know first, we publish an interview from Rob’s limited library of encounters with music’s great, good and mediocre. In the first category, we can safely file Midge Ure: guitarist, singer, songwriter, Band-Aid founder, and member of Thin Lizzy, Visage, and much more in between. Find out from the man himself what it's like to be simultaneously Brilliant (Ultravox, 2012) and Fragile (solo album 2014), where he stands on Scottish independence, and why he turned down the chance to be a Sex Pistol. If you’re really interested, then wind back to Rob and Dave’s companion episode on the classic Ultravox album Vienna, and find out just how much they got wrong about Midge’s life.
Dave and Rob have the same dad. Only they didn’t meet until Rob was 16 ... and Dave was nearly 30. That’s a lot of life to catch up on. And music – because whatever else they had in common, these long-lost brothers quickly realised they both really bloody loved music.
So, some 20 years after that fateful first meeting – and separated by 6,000 miles – the estranged siblings launched this podcast. It's super simple: every episode introduces an album that one brother loves, and the other doesn’t know from Adam. Then the other brother selects the next episode’s subject … and, repeat.
Welcome, then, to a podcast about some music that at least one of us is convinced Your Brother Should Know.
And you probably should, too.