Metamatic Forums John Foxx Ultravox Media - interview

I'll post it at the other place too, but thought Foxx fans might like to see this.

New to me - an excellent interview with the earliest post-Foxx band while on tour in the US during the winter of 1979/1980

http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/pdfs/ubyssey/UBYSSEY_1980_01_25.pdf

(pages 9 and 12)

Great find and interesting read.

Anyone notice the prices advertised for the stereo equipment?

Nice interview. Thanks for the link Martin.

"Boring old fart" not a nice way to descibe our John.

Peter

Cheers for posting this Martin.

Was Warren really a hair dresser?

Tar for the linky. Always interesting to hear 'why they split' stories etc.

Yes, I noticed that also.

I going to have to be brutually honest here:

As much as I admire Warren, (Because of him, I started taking up drumming), I have to say if (and I stress, if) the interview is accurate (though I'm unsure of it myself) and Warren really did say that John was a "boring old fart" then it was rather rude of him to say that, not to mention very degrading and cruel . As far I know, John never spoke ill of his former bandmates (this includes Warren) in his interviews (did he?). If Warren's comment isn't true then I'll withdraw my statement .


As for Warren being a hairdresser (that's where I get a bit suss about this interview), well that's news to me . I would like to hear Rob and Cerise's opinion on this claim . The only person that I could think of that worked as a hairdresser before making it big as a musician would be Mike Score of 'A Flock Of Seagulls'...

Rant over

I'm afraid that I can't possibly comment on this as it's an interview from almost thirty years ago... I'm sure that no-one will remember what was (or wasn't) said.

Somewhere I have a picture of Warren cutting Midge's hair... honest... I do... somewhere... I'll try and dig it out and post it here.

Rob

There's a part of me that regrets posting reference to what seems to be a 'controversial' interview.

There's so much more archive value in this than what was said or not at a time when emotions and tension was running high in the band. That is why I thought it was of interest - it will be a real shame if one or two comments from it are taken out of context and become more significant than they should.

I really hope this hasn't caused any offense to John or members of Ultravox, and I apologise if that is the case.
Certainly wasn't the intention.

Originally posted by Birdsong:

You shouldn't have anything to regret. After all your intentions for posting the link were, as you said earlier, for archive value.

All I was only trying to do in my previous post was state my opinion on the matter regarding Warren's comment on John. But in the process, I might have slightly over-reacted and for that I apologise.

Cheers