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Thanks Harold for the wonderful review. I enjoyed reading it. Can't wait for Cargo on Monday

Peter

Well what can I say, I was just happy to be there and experience John in the flesh atlast! I did notice that the audience was mainly made up of late 30 early 40 year old men but then again I am mid 30s, so I can't really talk! There were a few scatterings of women here and there including myself and my sister!

Yes the encore was quite long wasn't it, but I for one was glad he did "Glimmer and This City" amongst it.

I did see a few cameras and videos but not that many - but then again I was hovering around the back so who knows what was going on at the front!

It would have been nice if the audience had been a bit wilder to get the atmosphere up a bit - but maybe thats because of the distinct lack of women who tend to let themselves go a bit more!

Anyway I enjoyed myself alot - it was a good night.

Glad to hear you enjoyed the gig

I'm not sure there's such thing as a 'wild' crowd at a Foxx gig... I would hope that the average Foxx crowd would be more intellectual and appreciative of John's 'art'.

But at the same time you don't want it to feel like everyboddy dragged their feet to be there... though there'll always be some drunken idiot shouting out slurred requests of old Ultravox songs!

Oh yes I totally agree with the "intellectual and appreciative of his art" bit...... his music is a totally different calibre altogether! I wasn't expecting to turn up at a "Robbie Williams" gig hahaha

It was almost surreal actually - seing him live for the first time.

Some people do go over the top, but I think it's nice to take a few photos and a few (crappy) videos. Five minutes out of 90, and with a camera though, not with a mobile phone. Silly to have the technology and not to use it. A

And what is wrong with wanting to hear "old Ultravox songs" ? They are classics and I for one would be ecstatic if I ever got to see John Foxx live and he did something from Systems of Romance. I liked what he did on the Exotour.

There was someone at the ICA shouting for John to sing Vienna. LOL Probably too much falling over water .

Peter

Oh yeah i can see that would be a bit silly. Theres been a lot of that years ago in a few of Johns early bootlegs too.

Im still all for John and Louis doing some Foxxvox tracks though. But in a 'album show' its pretty obvious there will be limits to the songs played.

First time I've seen John. Magical stuff. 21st Century at the end was the only one that seemed to have an updated feel to it - the rest was pretty true to the original, vocal delays in a few tracks excepted.

I'm a veteran of Numan shows, but I realised the atmosphere would be a bit different and more "cerebral" as somebody suggested. It would have been nice to have a few choral contributions from the audience on occasion, but I did enjoy seeing Louis' impersonation of Mr. Bounce for the first time!

Thanks to John for all the years of quiet genius. Thanks to John and Louis for a memorable show.

PS: (We Are) Performance are pretty good, even if the lead singer looked a bit like John Barrowman with epilepsy.

I thought he was the ******* son of Ian Curtis and Robert Smith!