(from a email by robharris@metamatic.com)
Forthcoming Live Dates...

John and Louis are going to accompany the release of "Drive", the
forthcomimg single from their "Crash and Burn" album, by playing a
handful of live dates. Below are the full details...

Tuesday the 9th of September, 2003
Bristol - Fleece and Firkin
Address : 12 St. Thomas Street, Bristol BS1 6JJ
Phone : (Enquiries) 0117 945 0996, (Box Office) 0117 945 0996
Web : http://www.gigs.demon.co.uk/

Wednesday the 10th of September, 2003
Nottingham - Rescue Rooms
Masonic Place, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 5QQ
Phone : (Enquiries) 0115 988 1889, (Box Office) 0115 958 8484
Web : http://www.rescuerooms.com/

Thursday the 11th of September, 2003
Liverpool - Barfly
Address : The Masque Venue, 90 Seel Street, Liverpool L1 4BH
Phone : (Enquiries / Box Office) 0151 707 6171
Web : http://www.barflyclub.com/

Friday the 12th of September, 2003
Manchester - University
Address : Manchester University, 99 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR
Phone : (Enquiries) 0161 275 2930, (Box Office) 0871 2200 260
Web : http://www.umu.man.ac.uk/

Saturday the 13th of September, 2003
Glasgow - Barfly
Address : 260 Clyde Street, Glasgow G1 4JH
Phone : (Enquiries / Box Office) 0141 204 5700
Web : http://www.barflyclub.com/

Sunday the 14th of September, 2003
Edinburgh - The Venue
Address : The Venue, Calton Road, Edinburgh
Phone : (Enquiries / Box Office) 0131 557 3073
Web : http://www.nightb4.com/uk/edinburgh/clubs/venue/

Monday the 15th of September, 2003
York - Fibbers
Address : Stonebow House, The Stonebow, York YO1 7NP
Phone : (Enquiries / Box Office) 01904 651250
Web : http://www.fibbers.co.uk/

Wednesday the 17th of September, 2003
London - Scala
Address : 275 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9NL
Phone : (Enquiries / Box Office) 020 7833 2022
Web : http://www.scala-london.co.uk/

Ticket Outlets...

Flag Promotions
Web : http://www.flagpromotions.com/
Phone : (Information Line) 07930 655209

Ticketweb
Web : http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/
Phone : 08700 600100

Way Ahead
Web : http://www.tickets-online.co.uk/
Phone : 0207 403 3331

Interview With John Foxx...

Question : There has been some huge gaps in your career, between 1985
and 1995, and then, almost nothing in several years. Is it something
that bothers you or does this way of working suits you fine ?

John Foxx : "I think I'm quite fragile in some ways. I often need
time to repair myself before dealing with the world again. There also
needs to be room to have a personal life of some kind. If you don't
do this, I think you die as an artist and become a cheap celebrity at
best. More prosaically, I also need time to concentrate on the visual
sides of my work. All this feeds back into the music, makes it
richer. I get ideas for stories and songs and themes which then
emerge in the recordings. I think everyone also needs to vanish, to
be able to get lost from time to time. Just walk through the streets
anonymously. Watch the crowds. Sit in a cafe. Sometimes for years."
Interview With John Foxx...

Question : There has been some huge gaps in your career, between 1985
and 1995, and then, almost nothing in several years. Is it something
that bothers you or does this way of working suits you fine ?

John Foxx : "I think I'm quite fragile in some ways. I often need
time to repair myself before dealing with the world again. There also
needs to be room to have a personal life of some kind. If you don't
do this, I think you die as an artist and become a cheap celebrity at
best. More prosaically, I also need time to concentrate on the visual
sides of my work. All this feeds back into the music, makes it
richer. I get ideas for stories and songs and themes which then
emerge in the recordings. I think everyone also needs to vanish, to
be able to get lost from time to time. Just walk through the streets
anonymously. Watch the crowds. Sit in a cafe. Sometimes for years."

Q. : Could you introduce us to Louis Gordon, who is co-credited
for 'Crash and Burn' ?

JF : "With pleasure. Louis is a Manchester raver who has been making
electronic music on the fringes of that scene for many years. He has
released some legendary club tracks on Derrick May's Transmat label
in Detroit. He also hitch-hiked across Europe several times and lived
by busking. He is a totally committed artist. He will do nothing he
doesn't want to do, and is only interested in making music. He is
eccentric and passionate and the best electronic musician I have ever
worked with. Loves smoke and lights and electropower. We have a
useful telepathy because we come from similar backgrounds. We don't
need to discuss much when we work. It's like a swift chess game, one
move follows another. Screen flickers and a song appears."

Q. : "You seem to have a global view of your production, taking care
of the design as well as the music, on your own label. Is this
complete control of the production process necessary for you ?

JF : "It's not really a matter of control. I often work with images,
pieces of old movies, photographs I find in street markets, etc,
which lead to the stories and songs we record. They make up a sort of
world or some sort of lost movie you can glimpse for a while. It
seems more logical to use some of these in videos and on the record
sleeves because they were part of the process of arriving at the
song."

Q. : "You're also very active as a photographer. Do you think you
pursue the same kind of expression with it ?

JF : "Yes, as I mentioned earlier, the images and photographs and
videos all are really the same thing in different forms. I simply use
the medium which is most appropriate for the story I'm pursuing at
the time. I never really think I'm using video or music or
photography. They're all the same to me at the time."

Q. : Musically speaking, 'Crash and Burn' seems to fit between
different areas, neither really euro-tech nor electro-pop, neither
electroclash nor rock. Is it deliberate ?

JF : "Not really. I suppose Foxxmusic can be defined as sort of
Formal Anglo-European Psychedelic Electropunk. This emerged from
European and British 1950's trash pop, 60's Psychedelia, Punk and
from very early electronic music, before Acid and House and all the
other genres developed. These are what I grew up with and
participated in. What you're hearing is actually an alternative,
parallel evolution using DNA which everyone else has since
appropriated. The video would be made by Alain Resnais, David Lynch
and Chris Cunningham."

Q. : With Ultravox, you created in a way a kind of synthetic rock
that's today really popular and a song like 'Ray 1 / Ray 2' seems to
be a tribute to your own past...

JF : "Not just my own past. I used some things which Louis and I
always instinctively refer to, mixed with a few new elements. Spinal
music. A biovirtual version of the Velvets with Dylan and Iggy aged
19, if they had all grown up together on the same council estate in
New York 2005, working with Adult. A sleazy club behind burnt metal
doors. Audience of video artists, suburbanites and street trash.
Corroded synthesizers controlled by neural interface. Blue sparks
connecting audience to 3D screens. The police have to dig through the
walls to clear out the ashes."

Q. : With all the early 80's nostalgia going on, did you ever plan
to reform Ultravox ?

JF : "No. I've got no nostalgia for that. We're all a part of each
other, but there is so much else to do. Look back and turn to salt."

Q. : The global mood of the album seems kind of ironic. Is it your
way of seeing the actual world ?

JF : "A bit of irony can be a healthy thing. The Englishman's way of
distancing himself from the world - so as to be able to deal with it
on his own terms. It's a matter of balance I guess. Too little and
you're swept away by every new tide, too much and you become cynical.
It's always a sort of tightrope walk."

Q. : Twenty-five years after your first record, a new generation
seems to discover your work and be influenced by it. Does it inspire
you ?

JF : "I guess each generation selects what is relevant to itself from
the ruins left by preceding generations. It rebuilds its world using
those things - but always in new, fresh structures. I'm pleased to
have provided a bit of material solid enough to be considered useful."

Q. : Will you tour for 'Crash and Burn' or just play some festivals?

JF : "We'll tour. Louis is at his best live. The crew will thaw me
out of my block of ice before each gig, as usual. The electrodes
always leave burns. Then it's back in the refrigerator until we get
back to the studio."

Q. : Apart from that, what are your plans for the coming months?

JF : "Working on some small cut-up movies. Visual sampling. I'd like
to use these on tour as soon as we can. It's the future."


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