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Paul Morley recently interviewed John for a new series on Radio 2 called Paul Morley\'s Guide To Musical Genres .

John's interview will be in the programme about Glitch, due to be broadcast at 11.30pm on Tuesday the 17th of June, 2008.

Here's some blurb about the show...

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Paul Morley is both fascinated and confused by the number of different musical genres that exist today.

In this four-part series, he sets off to find out where all of these new genres have come from and what, if anything, do they mean to music fans today.

Each programme finds Paul talking to current champions of a new music style and the artists that have influenced them.

Tune in to find out everything you ever wanted to know about psych-folk, glitch, twee, post-rock, emo and perfect pop in the company of Lou Reed, Billy Bragg and Bernard Butler amongst others.

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Rob

That should be a good bit of publicity for John. Morley has always been very supportive of bands like the Human League and others to have emerged from that era.

I'm a big fan of Morley but I got the impression he wasn't a fan of Ultravox! - he had a dig at Ultravox! in a Joy Division review once and can be read in his collected writings on Joy Division published late last year.

I don't think he's ever offered an opinion on Foxx' solo career though.

But then that is all so long ago - perhaps he's revised his opinion over the years.

John seems to be getting himself about a bit, which in a way is not a bad thing. It's good publicity. Should be an interesting interview and looking forward to hearing it.

Peter

And those of us overseas will also be able to listen to this.

Interesting - I wonder why John with respect to glitch? I know very little about the genre, but it immediately makes me think of Autechre and other awkwardly rhythmic stuff. I would definitely rate the sublime "Cold House" by Hood, kind of an indie-glitch hybrid, if you will.

The post-rock one should be interesting too.

I'm ambivalent about Paul Morley - he always sounds incredibly pretentious to me, although I would admit that he expresses some interesting ideas in that unique way of his.

You're very polite Mr Puddle - he's an a*se.

I'm looking forward to reviewing my opinion...

Here it is…

“For Isolation they have the same instrumaentation, but it’s more withdrawn and estranged; a song they wrote only days before that reveals Numan and Foxx as true fools.”

Review of Joy Division at the University of London, NME, February 1980

http://www.iancurtis.org/gigs/articles/16-02-1980.html

However as I pointed out, this is so long ago, and indeed it does seem as if Morley had a change of heart for in his list of 100 Greatest Albums of All Time at the back of his book ‘Words and Music’ we find;

John Foxx – Metamatic

And also from the same book in his list '121 Songs That Explain Why Kraftwerk are Kraftwerk & Just How & Where & When Their Influence Spread & Turned';

John Foxx – He’s A Liquid

I’ve a lot of time for Morley – there’s a million hack journalists out there but only one Paul Morley (and sadly a host of on-line imitators) but he’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

One of the most thought-provoking and painful books I’ve ever read was Morley’s book ‘Nothing’ on his father’s suicide and its effect on him (and probably explains a lot of his Joy Division reviews!)

The show which features Paul Morley interviewing John is going to be broadcast TONIGHT...

Rob