EP.262 - JOHN FOXX
Adam and John Foxx, London, March 2025
Adam talks with British musician and artist John Foxx, about a few of the pioneers of electronic music, forming the band Ultravox!, working with legendary producers Brian Eno (Bowie, Talking Heads, U2, Coldplay, etc.) and Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, NEU! Cluster, Harmonia, etc.), the relationship between music and comedy, his encounters with Keith Richards and performance artist Leigh Bowery, what he and Fall frontman Mark E Smith would talk about on their drinking sessions together and how his parents didn't screw him up.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 11 March, 2025
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for additional editing
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
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MUSIC CLIPS USED IN THIS EPISODE
Slow Motion - Ultravox (from Systems Of Romance, 1978)
Underpass - John Foxx (from Metamatic, 1980)
The Other Room - John Foxx and Harold Budd (from Translucence + Drift Music, 2003)
III Allegro - Bach performed by Wendy Carlos (from Switched On Bach, 1968)
Autobahn - Kraftwerk (from Autobahn, 1974)
Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys (from Beach Boys Party!, 1965)
Gossipo Perpetuo - Jean-Jaques Perrey (from Mood Indigo, 1970)
Cool In The Pool - Holger Czukay (from Movies, 1979)
Apache - The Shadows (1960)
Love At The Swimming Hole - Louis and Bebe Baron (from Forbidden Planet soundtrack, 1956)
Ain't Misbehavin' - Tiger Lily (1975)
New Rose - The Damned (1976)
Vienna - Ultravox (from Vienna, 1980)
Are Friends Electric - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army (from Replicas, 1979)
RELATED LINKS
METAMATIC - SIGNED 45th ANNIVERSARY GREY VINYL - 2025 (BURNING SHED)
WENDY CARLOS - VOCODER QUESTIONS (WENDY CARLOS WEBSITE)