Pre-ordered and...well...Blimey Guv...
I've not seen this amount of speculation/love/hype/andgeneralwell-being about a new release since...hmmmm...dunno...
Protection?...
Blue Lines?...insert name of an extraordinary album here.
That's not to be cynical - I'm just talking about the weight of expectation on this album.
Mind you, that's not our fault
per se.
Those of us who went to the Roundhouse last year, and then watched and re-watched Brian's wonderful Youtube clips of various tracks coupled with stuff like
September Town* and
Everegreen...well...it's practically the Third Summer of Metamatic Love...innit?
I feel kinda distant to the whole project - maybe because the gestation has been so long. But I also feel so close to it too; because I heard, up close and personal, versions of
Watching A Building On Fire and
The Good Shadow - weird situation.
Interplay promises so much adventure; because it's the promise of Foxx's 1980, re-programmed by someone almost half his age for 2011.
And that has got to be a good thing.
Oh Yes.
I'd of ordered the t-shirt version but they ran out of M
Postscript -
There are some people out there who are fed up of collaborators.
Well - I'd like to present a well reasoned argument...but I can't so I'll just give them a good old fashioned V-Sign and say "B0ll0cks to the lot of 'em!"...
...and on the basis of
Evergreen and Proustian rememberences of things past like me being very p!$$ed whilst hearing
Watching A Building On Fire and
The Good Shadow live at The Roundhouse...I'd like to say...
"Surrender! Surrender infadels to the collaborators!"
After all...what's the worst that can happen?**
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*I genuinely can't remember the A-Side...
**"A-ha Mr Foxx you have invaded my secret underground lair! A Swiss plastic surgeon worked on me for six months and now - no-one will know the switch that has taken place - and I VILL ROOOL ZE VURLD HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"So how come you look like the pr!c& out of Slik?"
"HA! Foxx! You are trying to rile me, but my laser beam will rid you of such thoughts! Odd Job! The Laser! Now! So Mr Foxx - do you expect me to talk???"
"No Mr Ure I expect you to die...I have already seen the plans for 'Project U-Vox'; vinyl and plastic will not help you, it will only seal your fate...even if it is designed by Peter Saville..."
"Damn you Foxx! DAMN YOU!!!!!!!"
John Foxx will return in Casino Royale...