This from Artrocker, the guys behind the Xoyo gigs in London:

Next week on Artrocker.TV is John Foxx Week - meaning we'll be running a feast of exclusive content on the Ultravox founder ahead of his UK Tour.

Stand by for an exclusive new interview with the man himself, as well as a feast of celebrated artists discussing his work, including Vincent Gallo, Klaxons, Duran Duran, Gazelle Twin, The Human League and The Orb, as well as Black Swan soundtrack composer Clint Mansell and The Crow and I, Robot filmmaker Alex Proyas.

John Foxx Week takes place between 19 - 25 September

http://www.artrocker.tv/news/article/vin...on-artrocker.tv

Next month's Artrocker magazine looks set to feature an exclusive interview with John Foxx and Gary Numan

http://www.artrocker.tv/tom/article/foxx-and-numan

FOXX ON FOXX: A Personal Video History
As part of John Foxx Week on Artrocker.TV, the man himself presents this guide to some of the videos that have marked his career...

http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/foxx-on-foxx-a-personal-video-history

Vincent Gallo, Ladytron, Octavius pay tribute
It's John Foxx Week on Artrocker.TV - and we're going to be speaking to seminal figures who've been influenced by the legend as we go...

http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-the-tribute-interviews-1

Today's first entry is a wonderful piece by John on Shoreditch in the early 80s

http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/foxx-on-foxx-photographing-ghosts

A really beautiful interview

More tributes to John Foxx:

Duran Duran
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-duran-duran-pay-tribute

Clint Mansell (film soundtrack composer)
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-clint-mansell-pays-tribute

Xeno & Oaklander
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-xeno-oaklander-pay-tribute

LoneLady
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-lonelady-pays-tribute

Today's John Foxx week features include tributes from

Gazelle Twin and Alex Proyas
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-gazelle-twin-and-alex-proyas-pay-tribute

NY No Wave hereo Stuart Argabright
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article...ht-pays-tribute

Paul Daley
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-leftfields-paul-daley-pays-tribute

Back into The Garden

New video interview with John at his former studio:

http://www.artrocker.tv/videos/article/john-foxx-week-tom-artrocker-interviews-john-foxx

Johns looking very good in that neat little Artrocker interview, and the tributes from Xeno & Oaklander and Paul Daley have been very interesting and informative.

Thanks for all the updates Martin! In some ways I'll be glad when this week is over ... !

You and me both.
Glad ppl appreciate the links from this site

Transcribing and archiving all this stuff is taking up far too much time!!

One day, it will all be worth it...

I took the afternoon off yesterday and all hell has broken loose! Love it!

Handy hint: use the 'john foxx' tag to group all the artrocker features together, ie. http://www.artrocker.tv/artists/article/john-foxx

..and go from there!

We're really being spoilt with all this! How ace is ArtRocker?!

Yep -it's brilliant.

I'll try and keep all the links in this thread too because putting stuff out exclusively via Twitter does limit the audience, especially during working hours etc

The latest installment is the preview of a brand new track by John Foxx + The Maths:

Talk from the next album 'The Shape Of Things'
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-world-premiere-of-new-track-talk

Yes Martin and everyone else, thanks for the good work in updating us, and kudos to artrocker for JF week.

Tributes today (22nd September) from

The Neat
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-the-neat-and-silver-seas-pay-tribute
Supporting John Foxx + The Maths at Xoyo on 27th October

the Orb
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-the-orb-pay-tribute

Junior Boys
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-junior-boys-pay-tribute

We didn't get The Human League's take on JF, as promised...or perhaps still to come?

I understand that the contribution from The Human League will be included in this months edition of Artrocker Magazine...

In the meanwhile, here are some more tributes...

*****

Kevin Sampson pays tribute...
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article...on-pays-tribute

Mannequin Records and Dave Clarke pay tribute...
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-extra-mannequin-records-pay-tribute

Jori Hulkkonen pays tribute...
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-xtra-jori-hulkkonen-pays-tribute

*****

Rob

Cheers Rob

I've been 'otherwise engaged' today!

What!! You mean doing things that aren't John Foxx related...??

I know. Sorry. Will make up the time, guv...

Soft Moon
http://www.artrocker.tv/features/article/john-foxx-week-xtra-the-soft-moon-pay-tribute

The Kevin Sampson piece is especially interesting, and talks of the process behind using Ultravox songs in the soundtrack

Townsend have just mailed me about John's XOYO shows, and included a link to the Gazelle Twins Remix of "A falling Star".
It's awful.
Remember when Prince Charles described something or other as "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend"?
That's how I feel about this.

Sounds vaguely like an orchestra tuning up in the basement.

Here's the link: A failing stir

Ha, you've made me laugh there NerveJam! At the risk of opening up the 'ones mans music is another mans murder' debate I have to say that I really love this remix.

http://www.artrocker.tv/news/article/gaz...sive-remix-here

I'm a bit peeved that its 'exclusive' and not available on the 2000 copies of the Shape Of Things bonus disc, and why exactly not Mr Management? Lets spread this type of long-haired experimentalism wider and not just keep it for the 75 cool kids in their beatnik poetry club houses!

Harumph!

New post.

Not a completist myself and dont feel any need to have all things, but I know that many are on here, and not all with opportunity, so I think blatant encouragement for elitist cashing-in is surely a tad questionable, quote from artrocker:

"Put all that together and the EBAY value alone of 'A Falling Star' and you've got - an investment for a rainy day!"

Even bigger Harumph!!!

I'm sort of getting the impression that they are having problems shifting all of the platinum tickets.

Its not clear to me from various googled links leading to Townsend's website just what is available. I thought a while back that the VIP tickets were sold out for one of the nights. Either way the chance of a rare signed CD will certainly stoke up interest.

If you want it, just record it using Audacity, straight from the web..

If you're using Firefox, any downloader add-on should be able to grab the sound file. Only problem is, you're getting a 128kbps version, which is less than CD quality.

A new interview - this time with both John Foxx and Gary Numan (filmed at The Garden Studio) has just been posted on the Artrocker website...

Rob

Really enjoyed the Kevin Sampson interview, many aspects within it that ring true.

Love the line from Alessandro Adriani in reference to the original video for He's A Liquid - though personally I'd like to see a whole movie where the plot is the "Fluidity of human relationships and a Japanese horror film creating the life blood" for a fantastic musical score by John & Co'

Is the Soft Moon tribute online?

Yes, here's the link...

Rob

An interesting few minutes or so of JF & GN talking about *Gary Numan*... and Gary Numan only. Oddly, it's all done over a soundtrack of John's music. Why doesn't Numan say anything good or nice about John and his music?

Waste of time.

*Interesting* camera work; we get to see a lot of Numan's knees.

John wrote Numan a letter?

I thought the same thing.

Always found Numan to be a bit 'awkward' like that, and my guess was that he didn't enjoy being filmed.
The soundtrack was all wrong, and too loud.

Nevertheless, the two being together is undoubtedly a major achievement and not to be underestimated given they are so different

Well yes and no... !

A wasted opportunity.

I agree with that too...