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Wasn't there a semi-acoustic track on there also? - I used to have a tape of the session also (god bless the 80's camden market bootleg sellers!)- my memory is very hazy I'm afraid, but I'm pretty sure there was a semi-acoustic track that was only on the session and never officially released during this period.

I think the track you're referring to is Hanging in the Air and it was performed on Saturday Live when John was being interviewed by Andy Batten-Foster.

Rob

Cheers Rob! Thought I was my memory was going. I got it into my head that it was called something with the word 'Smile' in it - not 'Distant Smile' obviously but another track similarly titled. I got that completely wrong so cheers for refreshing my (hazy) memory!

The plot thickens....

According to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2463/foxxnews.html, the session was as follows;

Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Shadow Of Your Smile and Twilight's Last Gleaming (John Foxx on Radio One's Saturday Live program December 1983)

Apparently John did a further session two years later;

Morning Glory, In Mysterious Ways and Hanging In The Air (John Foxx on Radio One's Saturday Live program November 1985)

I think I'm right in thinking "Shadow Of Your Smile" was a cover version of an old 1950s song?

I have those sessions on tape somewhere, so in my head - I've welded the sessions together and this is where (my) confusion lies.

I think the song I'm vaguely remembering is the semi-acoustic one - which Rob reckons is 'Hanging In the Air'.

Sadly I have absolutely no re-collection of 'The Shadow of Your Smile' beyond the title and I have absolutely no idea where that tape is now!

I have these 3 mentioned Radio sessions on CD.
I would make one copy for one guy here and he can do the next copy for the next guy himself, and on an on....
We did it on Extreme Voice with other things in the same way too and it worked well - at least ; there are only costs for postage.

So if anyone is interested...

BTW.: Is anyone here who could make me a copy of the last Radio show of John & Louis - I think it was the Tom Robinson show...?

Yes Please! E-mail me for info.

Incidently, wasn't 'Shadow of Your Smile' an alternative name for 'Shine On'? It's also a Bill Nelson track!

I think this is a summary of the sessions being discussed:

December 1983 - Richard Skinner "Saturday Live" (Radio 1)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Shadow of Your Smile
(this is a cover of an old 'song' which Foxx performs to demonstrate his love of 'proper' songs - structure and form etc. It's not a version of Shine On, and as far as I know has not been performed or recorded anywhere else)
Twilight's Last Gleaming

April 1985 - Andy Batten-Foster, Radio1
Morning Glory
In Mysterious Ways
Hanging In The Air
(I don't think this was as late as November, because it took place during the sessions for the IMW album and, at the time, Hanging in The Air was being considered for the album)

June 1985 - Janice Long's "Evening Session" Radio1
Shine On
Stars On Fire
Lose All Sense Of Time
In Mysterious Ways

I think this was John's last session of the period.
The last three tracks were re-broadcast on 6Music's Dream Ticket on June 15th 2005 when John did a brief telephone interview.
I've got this somewhere, which I could circulate if people want it.

Twenty years passed before John did a new session on the BBC, that being also for Janice Long (lucky girl!!) in July last year.

Corrections to the above very welcome

Oooh Yes. Most definitely.

I find it quite odd that no-one asked John to do a session at the time of the release of Metamatic. I would have thought that Kid Jensen would have been snapping at John's heels begging for a session. After all he (Kid) used to have an awful lot of electronic/ new wave stuff on his programme.

I must admit "Shine On" is a new song to me. Anyone heard it?
Thanks for the information Birdsong.
Peter