Just as a add on to this thread.
I wasn't that impressed with the newer version of The Man Who Dies Every Day that John and Louis performed at their concerts last year, much preferring to hear the old original Ultravox version. I know there were a lot of fans that wanted to hear this song live. I wonder how, I'll pick a song out of the air, I Want To Be A Machine would sound now performed by John and Louis?
My personnel opinion is that John's Metamatic era music lends itself very well to being "updated/modernised" as opposed to his later solo albums.
So I'm looking forward to hearing Metamatic being played in it's entirety at the concerts later this year.
Peter