There will also be a coach running from Saturday April, 18 through Sudany, April 26
Organised by Peter Gilbert Travel, which is 42.00 pounds per day, based on two people sharing a twin or double room - for a minimum of 4 consecutive days. There is a 15.00 pound per day single supplement. Places are limited to 40, to reserve your place send a 50.00 pound deposit payable to Peter Gilbert Travel, to this address:
Peter Gilbert Travel, PO Box 181, Wembley HA0 4BE. Info line 0181 450 4506.
Carcrash Intern
John Foxx served as executive producer for a group called 'Carcrash Intern' . The name of their album is 'Fragments of a Journal in Hell'. It was released on April 16, 1995 via Cleopatra Records, catalogue #7309. Paul Simon is also given credit for producing and mixing. Carcrash Intern's personell are Dave Roberts who also has worked with 'Sex Gang Children' and 'Heretix', Matt Green, Judson Leach who has also worked with Bauhaus, Motorhead, The Damned and Psychic TV, Bari-Bari who has also worked with Mephisto Waltz and Christian Death, David Glass, Colin Dminchin and Nicky Garrett who apeared on the UK subs album 'Riot'. The album genre is rock and the style is alternative/industrial.
Post Exo Tour
John Foxx and Louis Gordon will be undertaking a follow up to the successful Exotour, expected dates
are set for March/April. Also, on January 10th, John Foxx and Louis Gordon are doing a one off concert in Shrewsbury, that concert is to be recorded on video and made available for purchase, I don't know through whom, probably through Voiceprint. Here are the details of the John Foxx concert which is set for January 10, 1997, for those that would like to attend:
Shrewsbury Music Hall
The Square
Shrewsbury
Shropshire SY1 1LH
Box Office: (01743) 244 255
Tickets are 6.00 pounds in advance and 7.00 pounds on the door. Doors
open at 7:30pm.
Exotour CD
1,000 Copies of the Exotour CD were made and given out at the John Foxx/Louis Gordon concerts
which were held last October. The five featured tracks are Burning Car, Dislocation, Overpass, This City and Shifting City. Voiceprint acquired
a small number of the CD's and was offering them for sale, though I don't know if they have any left.
Metamatic Record Label
John Foxx has a new record label. Both Cathedral Oceans and The Shifting City are to be released on 'Metamatic', John's new label. For those wishing to order the two forthcoming John Foxx releases, they will be available for purchase through Voiceprint Records. An independant label that features artists such as Bill Nelson, Anthony Phillips and Geoff Downes formely of 'The Buggles' and 'Yes'. Voiceprint has an on-line credit card order form, you can also phone, fax or e-mail your order to them. The March 24th, 1997 scheduled release date for 'Cathedral Oceans' and 'The Shifting City' is coming up fast, so get ready. For further details on 'Cathedral Oceans' and 'The Shifting City' click on the highlighted text above.
Cathedral Oceans
Cathedral Oceans has been completed though the artwork still needs a few adjustments, but apart from that it is ready for release. Tentative release for Cathedral Oceans is March 24, 1997. This one will take
your breath away, I'm so glad that John has decided to release this, a lot of people have been wanting this
for a long time. I was fortunate enough to hear Cathedral Oceans performed at St. Chads Church in Shrewsbury. It begins with a beautiful piano introduction and then moves into Cathedral Oceans which features some stunning keyboard pieces. It's very moving, very beautiful, though I didn't get to see it,
having a professional quality recording of it will be fantastic. This one is a must have. Click on highlighted text above for album details.
The Shifting City
Next up on the list of projects is a John Foxx - Louis Gordon collaboration entitled 'The Shifting City' which should also see its way to release on March 24, 1997. Although I do not have any information on Louis Gordon, I shall do some investigating to see if I can find out more about him, if not we'll certainly sure to find out more about him when the album arrives. I like the title of the album already, its strikingly similar to 'City Doesn't Care'. All I can say is that its a welcome surprise. Click on highlighted text above for further album details.
Translucence
The long awaited, the long talked about, the long guessed about Harold Budd - John Foxx collaboration is forthcoming it is entitled 'Translucence'. It is tentatively scheduled to be released in June or July of 1997.
John Foxx Film Score
John Foxx composed the musical score for the 1982 Michaelangelo Antonioni film 'Identification Of A Woman' which is available through Connoisseur Video. The format of the film is Italian dialogue with English subtitles. An intense movie with a brilliant effort by John Foxx, including a unique and different instrumental version of Europe After The Rain along with a number of unheard pieces by John Foxx. It appears to have been recorded in the period between 'The Garden' and 'The Golden Section'.
Also featured in the film are numbers by Tangerine Dream, Japan and XTC. 'Watching Identification of a Woman is a little like waking from a quietly perplexing, consistently intriguing dream'. You should be able to locate this film in a decent video store that carries foreign films. Locating this film is definitely worth the effort as I felt that listening to the soundtrack of this movie was like listening to a brand new John Foxx album.
The Golden Section
Apparently Virgin Records are considering re-issuing John's third solo album, The Golden Section, onto compact disc in the near future. Although there are no specific details at the moment, it is unlikely that it will include any extra tracks. However we have been pleasantly surprised in the past.
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Open University recently used the start of Twilight's Last Gleaming as the introductory music to a program on the BR high speed 125 train
Ultravox & John Foxx
There may be another Island compilation in the offing. Several tracks have
been recommended 'Extreme Voice' Ultravox/John Foxx fanzine to form the basis of the album:
(01) Slip Away (Live at the Rainbow, London)
(02) The Man Who Dies Everyday (Live at Huddersfield Poly)
(03) Young Savage (Live at the Marquee, London)
(04) The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned (Live at the Rainbow, London)
(05) My Sex (Live at Huddersfield Poly)
(06) Quirks
(07) Modern Love
(08) Man Who Dies Every Day (German Remix)
(09) Hiroshima Mon Amour (Original Version)
(10) Quiet Men (Full Version)
Warren Cann has indicated that there were a couple of tracks which were destined for the first album, but because of the time limitations due to vynil, they were not included. One of the tracks was called Car Crash Flashback, the other was City Doesn't Care. Warren has since located his tape of these tracks, and if the compilation goes ahead, they should also be included.
Windsong International
Windsong International have been able to license the following tracks from the BBC for a possible future release:
(01) Hiroshima Mon Amour & Slow Motion (John Foxx with Ultravox on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1978)
(02) Underpass & Blurred Girl (John Foxx on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1980)
(03) Lose All Sense Of Time, In Mysterious Ways Shine On and Stars On Fire (John Foxx on John Peel's late night show 1985).
The following tracks could also be included depending on whether or not the master tapes can be located:
(04) Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Shadow Of Your Smile and Twilight's Last Gleaming (John Foxx on Radio One's Saturday Live program December 1983)
(05) Morning Glory, In Mysterious Ways and Hanging In The Air (John Foxx on Radio One's Saturday Live program November 1985)
Windsong confirm that it would be regarded as a John Foxx release even though it would include two tracks performed as Ultravox.
Melody Maker
The following comes from Melody Maker's June 4, 1994 column that asks 'what ever happened to.....?"
John Foxx founded the synthesizer band Ultravox in London in 1974. Heavily influenced by German synth pioneers Kraftwerk and Brian Eno, they signed to Island in 1976 but were destined to be a band both out of step and ahead of their time. Their eponymous debut was produced by their mentor Brian Eno but had little success. A further two albums, Ha! Ha! Ha! and Systems of Romance didn't fare much better and in 1978 Ultravox were dropped by Island. Foxx left the group to pursue a solo career with Virgin Records. By this time, Ultravox's role in paving the way for the likes of Gary Numan and The Human League had become obvious and Ultravox enjoyed a new lease of life with their huge LP Vienna, while Foxx achieved more modest success with his bleak Metamatic, including chart hits with Underpass and No One Driving. He released a further three albums before taking a break from the music scene in 1985. His next project was in 1987, an unreleased LP of ambient church music, Cathedral Oceans, some of which has been used on the BBC program, Horizon.
Throughout the rest of the decade and into the Nineties he embarked on a number of one-off live performances around the UK and Europe in churches chosen from an architectural guide for their natural echo qualities. He also began collaborating with Tim Simenon and Kurt Rogers and released a single, 'Remember', with him under the name of Nation 12 in 1990. Another single, 'Electrofear', this time without Simenon followed in 1991. The project was supposed to have continued, but difficulties at the label brought about a premature end. he subsequently created the music for the video games 'Gods' and 'Speedball II'. More recently he was to have been the third collaborator on the recent Harold Budd/Andy Partridge LP but other commitments made it impossible. He is now widely known as Europe's leading expert on the process of computer imaging, and his work has adorned many book covers, including Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit'. He teaches this technique at art schools across the country. He was last reported working on music with Robin Simon, an old Ultravox colleague, and his brother Paul Simon, who also drums with Glen Matlock's new band, 'The Mavericks.
Cathedral Oceans
A recent visitor here to The Garden Web Site has been Andy Jones who is the editor of UK based Future Music Magazine which covers artists mostly in the electronic, dance, ambient and techno fields. Future Music Magazine is the one that includes the free CD with each issue giving out demos of the latest synthesizers. Andy's first album that he ever bought was Metamatic at the tender age of only 12. Andy tells me that he interviewed Harold Budd who is a John Foxx fan - he described one of John's church performances as being 'almost a full mass. It was so beautiful it nearly reduced me to tears'. Quite a compliment coming from the great Budd.
Andy also says that he was nearly in possession of the video album version of Cathedral Oceans. If any visitor here to The Garden has or knows where 'Cathedral Oceans' may be obtained, please e-mail me real-one@ix.netcom.com. A number of John Foxx fans would be greatly indebted to you for any information regarding Cathedral Oceans.
