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Thanks for posting the interview link RadioBeach


“ London as an Overgrown City - projected onto Battersea Power Station..."

“Make a graceful curve
 up to the interchange

Then I glide up to the lights, I'm feeling top of the range...
Automobile...”

“The aim is to make London into the kind of place we'd all like to live in. Instead of the dreadful car-dominated pedestrian-cowered rut it is at present”

Seems you can have too much of a good thing, even MetaFoxxically


A Virtual Greenery projected into suitable areas of the cityscape in place of the impossibility of an actual one, it might just help to bring pockets of momentary calm to the place, hey it could just catch on.

"The Quiet Man spoken word CD, and collaborations with Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and Steve Jansen (Japan) will follow early in 2009."

From a Myspace email sent out by Steve Malins the other day. No other details given, alas.

The more pedantic among us might care to note that the Patti Smith gig at the Roundhouse to which Foxx refers in this interview was eithr 16th or 17th May 1976 (not 74 or 75).

Some great little anecdotes like this in the interview though. He really was right in there with all them that matter at the pivotal moments in recent music history

He's a busy man.

While we are talking recent interviews, here's one John did a couple of days ago for the Yorkshire Evening Post

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/music-gigs/INTERVIEW-John-Foxx.4670300.jp

I'm sure I've seen the last couple of lines quoted somewhere?

This bit sums it up for me:
"That's what an artist's life is really about.Long-term communication"

Thanks for the link Birdsong.

Someday though I’d like to read an interview where Dennis Leigh was responding to the questions, here as with so many other past interviews the clipped sentences are always so stylishly and cleverly spoken, but I’d love to just occasionally hear the ordinary man speak out randomly from behind the huge character of John Foxx, but then again maybe Dennis/John really is a naturally informed and skilful responder.

Funny him mentioning the Brothers Quay, two tall enigmatic and elusive twins with wild swept back hair, usually dressed in sombre clothes, and also the same age as John. I wonder if he knew them at the RCA, I would imagine that he is a big fan of their films: Institute Benjamenta, and The Piano Tuner Of Earthquakes.

“To Travel without moving…” that’s from Dune I believe

Thanks for finding this article, Martin.

This bit sums it up for me:

I'm against preservatives. Music is a living, electrical language - has to be alive and moving forward, otherwise it's dead.

I posted this this morning higher up the thread,must be the re-mastered version :rolleyes:

Here is a collage of pictures from last night:-



And a slideshow:-

Since as usual in Hotels I cant sleep,here is a mini review.


As you can see from the pictures,the venue is a really beautiful old Victorian hall,a great venue for this type of event.

The show began just after 9pm with an intro by John then went into 3 or 4 discreet segments.
The first part video was ready made with John playing treated Piano.Narration was not John but the voice that we have heard before on the Youtube clip.

The middle section consisted of video mixed live by Karborn with narration by John.

Most of the images in the films I think we've seen before over the last few years.

The image of the white angel that we last saw at Cargo in the middle of My Sex crops up again.

The whole experience was deeply beautiful & quite hypnotic.

The show lasted around 45 minutes.This was followed by a Q & A session.

My favourite part was the live VJ mixed part.John did say that it worked better in rehearsal.

I cant wait to see the rest of this work in progress.

After the show a few of us hung back in the foyer.

John did eventually come out & I got to meet him,shake his hand & have a quick chat.

I know I've said before never meet your heroes but he was standing right next to me so it would have been rude not to.The time felt right.

He was very warm & frendly as it turns out.

I'd like to thank all of the forum members that I met up with again last night,Peter,Alex & Alexa,Mark,Craig,Sarah,Tessa & Gem.

Nice to see you all again.

Thanks to Mark for joining me for a few beers after the show.

Thanks Brian for an impressive souvenir of the event.

Chris