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John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh[1]) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher. He was the original lead singer of the band Ultravox before being replaced by Midge Ure, when he left to embark on a solo career in 1979. Primarily associated with electronic synthesiser music, he has also pursued a parallel career in graphic design and education.
Biography
Early life
Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire.[2] His father was a coal miner and pugilist, his mother a millworker. He attended St Mary’s Primary and St Augustine’s Secondary schools.[3] During his youth in the 1960s he embraced the lifestyle of a mod and a hippy.[4] He experimented with tape recorders and synthesisers while on a scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London.
His first band, formed whilst at art college in Preston, was called Woolly Fish.[2][5]
Prior to 1973, he was singing and playing a 12 string guitar, and occasionally supported Stack Waddy in Manchester, from where he later moved to London in order to escape what he saw as a lack of musical stimulus.[6]
Tiger Lily
In 1973 he formed a band that would eventually be called Tiger Lily, comprising initially bassist Chris St. John (real name: Christopher Thomas Allen) and guitarist Stevie Shears, with Canadian drummer Warren Cann joining shortly afterwards, in early 1974. The band played their first official gig at the Marquee club in August 1974. After the gig, Billy Currie, then known as 'Billy Curry', was recruited as violinist.
Tiger Lily released a single on 14 March 1975 on Gull Records, the A-side of which was a cover of the Fats Waller track "Ain't Misbehavin'". It was commissioned for (but not subsequently used in) a soft porn movie of the same name. The B-side of "Ain't Misbehavin'" was the group's own song - "Monkey Jive". The small amount of money they received for recording this single was used to buy Billy Currie an electric piano.[7]
Ultravox!
Tiger Lily played frequently in London pubs between 1974 and 1975, however their Bowie-esque glam rock sound was rendered superfluous by the advent of punk.
After several name-changes, including Fire of London, The Zips and even The Damned, the band transformed into Ultravox!, with an exclamation mark. The group's style fused punk, glam, electronic, reggae and new wave music. Around this time, Leigh adopted his stage name of John Foxx (while Chris St. John called himself Chris Cross and Curry changed his stage last name to his original, Currie).
Among the elements that set the band apart from their contemporaries were Foxx's lyrics and vocal delivery, and Billy Currie's violin and synthesiser playing. Once the band signed to Island Records, they released three LPs during 1977-1978. The first Ultravox! single, Dangerous Rhythm, a stunning reggae-styled song, backed with "My Sex", was released 19 January 1977. Their first album (the self-titled Ultravox!) was released shortly afterwards, produced by Steve Lillywhite and the band, with assistance from Brian Eno. The album attracted a lot of attention, but did not sell well. It was quickly followed by their second album Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, which featured a more jagged punk sound, and included the single ROckWrok, although both also had commercial failures.[citation needed]. A stand-out track from Ha! Ha! Ha"! was Hiroshima Mon Amour which saw the band's increaing use of synthesisers come to the fore and point the way for their new direction. The song is also notable for its use of a Roland TR-77 drum machine, possibly the first recorded use of a drum machine by a British band.
Ultravox and Systems of Romance
For their third album, Systems of Romance, Ultravox adopted a smoother sound, and abandoned the exclamation mark in their name. Also missing was their first guitarist, the punk-oriented Stevie Shears, who was replaced by Robin Simon, from a band called Neo. The album was co-produced by Conny Plank, an early associate of German electronic band Kraftwerk. The punk sound of the previous records was abandoned in favour of a sleek, electronic production that was a precursor of the synthpop sound. Two singles were released from the album, "Slow Motion" and "Quiet Men". Sales were modest, but the album did gain the band exposure to a wider audience, including the United States. Systems of Romance is often regarded as the first synthpop album and, as such, it strongly influenced bands that were to follow.
During the recording of Systems of Romance, a song of the same name was written, but the band had no time to record it. It was later included on Foxx's second solo album The Garden. [2] At Systems of Romance gigs, Foxx began to perform with the band three future solo songs, "He's a Liquid" and "Touch & Go" (later included on Metamatic, Foxx's first solo album) and "Walk Away" (included on The Garden album). The latter song was not performed again by Foxx until 1983.[8]
First American tour and departure from Ultravox
Despite being dropped by their record label at the beginning of 1979 [3], Ultravox undertook a self-financed tour of the United States in February, which was successful in terms of crowd enthusiasm and ticket sales. During the tour, the band performed two new songs, "Touch and Go", which Foxx later recorded for Metamatic, and "Radio Beach", which was never recorded in the studio.[9]
Foxx had informed the band that he wished to leave. The band came to a parting of the ways at the end of the tour on the west coast of the United States, Robin Simon deciding to stay on in New York and Foxx announcing his plan to go solo upon returning to England. [4] Without a lead singer, the band went into hiatus, Billy Currie joining Gary Numan's touring band and contributing to his highly successful 1979 album, The Pleasure Principle. [5] The burgeoning popularity of synthesiser music at this time, and Numan's oft-quoted praise for the Foxx-fronted lineup and song-output of Ultravox, helped revive interest in the band. Billy Currie rejoined the group, while John Foxx was replaced as lead vocalist by Midge Ure, of The Rich Kids, Slik and Thin Lizzy [6] whom Currie had met whilst working with Ure in Visage, Currie being encouraged to ask Ure by Ure's friend and former bandmate (in The Rich Kids), Rusty Egan.. Ultravox then built on some of the ideas explored on Systems of Romance, achieving huge worldwide success with the album Vienna in 1980, after which the band released a series of popular albums and singles. Midge Ure was active in organising, and Ultravox performed at, Live Aid in 1985, and at subsequent Live Aid events. [7] This Ultravox lineup lasted another nine years [8], overshadowing Foxx's concurrent solo career.
Solo
After signing to Virgin Records, Foxx achieved minor chart success with his first solo single, "Underpass" (UK Chart Pos. #31) and "No-One Driving" (UK Chart Pos. #32). Its parent album Metamatic appeared in record shops on 17 January 1980. Foxx played most of the synthesisers and "rhythm machines", as they were listed on the sleeve. The name of one of the album's songs, "Metal Beat", takes its name from a CR-78 drum machine sound used on the record. Virgin released the album under the imprint name "Metal Beat Records", which was used for Foxx releases throughout his contract with them.[9]
Foxx's next LP was The Garden, released 25 September 1981. This recording was a departure from the stark electronic sound of Metamatic, bearing a greater resemblance to Foxx’s swansong with Ultravox, Systems of Romance. The Garden's starting point was in fact a song called "Systems of Romance", written by Foxx for the earlier album but not released at the time.[10]
In 1982, Foxx set up his own recording studio, designed by Andy Munro, also called The Garden, housed in an artists' collective in Shoreditch, East London, in a former warehouse also occupied by sculptors, painters and film makers. He produced some demo recordings for Virginia Astley's first album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure [11]. Artists such as Depeche Mode, British Electric Foundation, Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, Bronski Beat, The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tina Turner, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Tuxedomoon also recorded in Foxx's studio.
In 1983, Foxx provided some music for the soundtrack to Michelangelo Antonioni's film Identification of a Woman (Identificazione di una Donna) [12]. In September that year, his third solo LP The Golden Section was released. A development of the sound of The Garden, Foxx described this album as a "roots check" of his earliest influences such as The Beatles, psychedelia, and other pre-punk sources.
The album In Mysterious Ways was issued in October 1985. Musically it was not considered a significant advance on the sound of his two previous releases, nor was it a commercial success although the album's lyrics are far more romantic than any of his previous albums. [13]. Foxx later said that at the time he felt divorced from any contemporary musical influences. However, he did produce, co-write and play on Pressure Points, by Anne Clark, the same year [14].
Withdrawal from the music scene
After In Mysterious Ways, Foxx gave up a public career in pop music [15]. He sold his recording studio and returned to his earlier career as a graphic artist, working under his original name of Dennis Leigh. Examples of his work at this time include the book covers of Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, Anthony Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford, and several books in the Arden Shakespeare series. He also continued experimenting with reverberation, vocal treatments and echo in ambient music, working on a project he called Cathedral Oceans.
After about five years "living like a ghost in London", Foxx began to find inspiration in the underground House and Acid music scenes in Detroit and London. With Nation 12 in the early 1990s, Foxx released two 12-inch singles, "Remember" and "Electrofear". The first was a collaboration with Tim Simenon, best known for his Bomb the Bass project. The group also wrote the music for the Bitmap Brothers computer games Speedball 2 (1990) and Gods (1991). He also worked with pioneers in this field such as LFO and made the music video for their eponymous debut single.[citation needed] Around this time, Foxx also taught on the Graphic Arts & Design degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University.
Re-emergence
On 24 March 1997, John Foxx made a return to the music scene with the simultaneous release of two albums, Shifting City and Cathedral Oceans on Metamatic Records.[citation needed]
Shifting City was a collaboration with Manchester's Louis Gordon, an updated stylistic return to Foxx's Metamatic synth pop sound which also displayed the influence of 1990s underground dance music and the 'triphop' style, along with the psychedelic Beatles-esque pop first apparent on Ultravox’s "When You Walk Through Me" (from 'Systems Of Romance').
On 11 October 1997, Foxx played his first public gig since 1982 at The Astoria, London. A limited edition CD (1,000 numbered copies only) entitled Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour was available for purchase by ticket holders.
Cathedral Oceans was a solo John Foxx record, an ambient return to his Catholic youth and his love of the cathedrals of England and Europe. Its roots included traditional evensong, Gregorian Chant, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and German band Cluster. From his own music Foxx drew on such pieces as "My Sex" from the first self-titled Ultravox! record, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" from Ha!-Ha!-Ha!, "Just For a Moment" from Systems Of Romance, and the title track from The Garden. Cathedral Oceans began as a project during the sessions for "The Garden" and has been a work in progress for 20 years before this release, described by Foxx himself as one of the proudest achievements of his career. An accompanying DVD and book of images was made commercially available for the first time during an installation in Hoxton Square, London, in January 2003.
Foxx and Gordon continued to work together, performing live on the Subterranean Omnnidelic Exotour in 1997 and 1998 and releasing a second album The Pleasures of Electricity, in September 2001. Two years later they toured again, to promote the album Crash and Burn, released in September 2003 on Foxx's own Metamatic Records. This continued the Ballardian themes of urban landscape and automobiles present in Metamatic, and was supplemented by the Drive EP. 2003 also saw the release of the second volume of Cathedral Oceans as well as another ambient record, the double CD Translucence and Drift Music with Harold Budd. In 2004, from September through October, a collection of Cathedral Oceans images was exhibited at BCB Art, Hudson, New York, and in the following year Cathedral Oceans III was released.
In April 2005 Foxx guested on Finnish DJ Jori Hulkkonen's album Dualizm, where he provided vocals for "Dislocated" which Hulkkonen had written especially for him. A month later, Foxx appeared on stage at the Brighton Pavilion with Harold Budd and Bill Nelson as part of a concert to celebrate the work of the retiring pianist, which led to the announcement in October that year that Foxx would be involved in collaborations with Jah Wobble, Robin Guthrie, Steve Jansen and Nelson. The following month an album's worth of salvaged Nation 12 material was finally issued under the title Electrofear. Despite its relatively low-key promotion and status as largely a 'work in progress', Electrofear encapsulated many of the original ideas that were more fully realised on Shifting City and, in its turn, From Trash.
In June 2006, Foxx released an instrumental solo album called Tiny Colour Movies consisting of fifteen instrumental tracks inspired by short art films he saw at a private screening. His official website described these as having the "filmic, atmospheric approach" of the Metamatic-era instrumental B-sides "Glimmer", "Film One" and "Mr No". On 18 November 2006, Foxx gave a performance of the work at the Duke of York's cinema in Brighton, where Tiny Colour Movies was premiered as part of the city's Film Festival. Edited versions of the movies were shown on a big screen for the first time with Foxx playing a mix of live and recorded accompaniment from the album. This 'film' was shown again at Fulham Palace in July 2007 and then in a slightly revised format at the ICA and as part of the 21st International Film Festival in Leeds during November that year.
Three collaborative albums with Louis Gordon were released in late 2006: Live From a Room (As Big as a City), a 'live' studio album from the 2003 tour (released in association with an interview CD entitled "The Hidden Man") in October; the studio album From Trash in November; and a further album from the same sessions a few weeks later during the accompanying mini-tour. This two-CD package, entitled Sideways, included ten original tracks plus two extended versions of songs on From Trash. The second disc contained an extensive interview with Foxx describing the making of From Trash which was available only at concerts on the 2006 tour. The album saw a more commercial UK-wide release in April 2007.
A second surround sound DVD of Cathedral Oceans was released in March 2007. This contained his artwork made into a film intended as a "slowly moving, hallucinogenic, digital stained glass window, intended to be projected as big as possible onto architecture and in public places." The work was premiered in November 2006 at the Leeds International Film Festival.
In July 2007, Foxx exhibited some of his Cathedral Oceans artwork as large format digital prints at Fulham Palace as part of the RetroFuture exhibition hosted by ArtHertz. On the opening night, Foxx performed a piano piece accompanying a reading from his unpublished novel The Quiet Man in front of an audience for the first time. In September, a remastered edition of Metamatic was released as a two-CD pack containing the original album plus most of the associated B-sides and extra tracks from the period, including two 'new' songs re-assembled from original music recorded at the time.
On 29 September 2007, a showcase of Foxx's work was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London where he performed another version of Tiny Colour Movies and hosted a question-and-answer session. This was followed by the first-ever live performance of the entire Metamatic album, during which Foxx and Louis Gordon were accompanied on stage by Steve D'Agostino. Later in the evening, the DVD of Cathedral Oceans was shown in one of the ICA cinema studios. In October, Foxx and Gordon toured the UK with Metamatic, culminating in a show at Cargo in London. The year ended with two shows at the Luminaire in London. A live album titled A New Kind of Man, culled from the Metamatic performances in 2007, was released on Metamatic Records on 28 April 2008.[10]
John Foxx presented three different pieces of his solo work in the space of one week in June 2008. This began with a showing of Tiny Colour Movies at the Caixaforum in Barcelona on 14 June 2008, followed by a performance of Cathedral Oceans III inside the Great Hall at Durham Castle, England on the 18th. He then travelled to Italy and presented an extract from The Quiet Man at the 14th Festival Internazionale di Poesia in Genoa.[11]
In March 2010, renowned Berlin producer Mark Reeder was given the ultimate honour of remixing the legendary track Underpass (Reeder Sinister Subway Mix)[12] for John Foxx's special CD/DVD retrospective compilation Metatronic. Reeder not only remixed his versions from the original master tapes in stereo for the CD, but he also made 5.1 mixes of his own remixes and John Foxx's original 80's version. [13]
Work outside music
In 2000, a Porcupine Tree release called Lightbulb Sun was issued with cover art by Foxx.
Foxx has more recently taken a senior lecturer position at The London College of Music and Media TVU in London, working with art, media and music students across a range of courses. These include a masters degree in Computer Arts, as well as undergraduate courses such as Digital Arts and Audio Technology. In mid-2005, he took a sabbatical to record new music, write, work on the films which make up Tiny Colour Movies and tour in Europe and the UK.
In December 2007, Foxx exhibited some of his photographic works in an exhibition called Cinemascope at the Coningsby Gallery in West London. The images were part of three collections, "Grey Suit Music", "Tiny Colour Movies" and "Cathedral Oceans".
Discography
Studio albums
- with Ultravox
- 1977 - Ultravox!
- 1977 - Ha! Ha! Ha!
- 1978 - Systems of Romance
- Solo and collaborations
- 1980 - Metamatic
- 1981 - The Garden
- 1983 - The Golden Section
- 1985 - In Mysterious Ways
- 1997 - Shifting City (with Louis Gordon)
- 1997 - Cathedral Oceans
- 1998 - Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour (500 copy numbered edition with Louis Gordon. From the rehearsals for the 1998 UK tour - 15/04/1998)
- 2001 - The Pleasures of Electricity (with Louis Gordon)
- 2003 - Cathedral Oceans I + Cathedral Oceans II (02/06/2003)
- 2003 - Translucence + Drift Music (with Harold Budd 25/08/2003)
- 2003 - Crash and Burn (with Louis Gordon)
- 2005 - Cathedral Oceans III (08/08/2005)
- 2005 - Electrofear (as Nation 12 14/11/2005)
- 2006 - Tiny Colour Movies
- 2006 - The Hidden Man (2CD interview set, a reading from The Quiet Man and three new songs.)[14]
- 2006 - From Trash (with Louis Gordon)
- 2006 - Sideways (with Louis Gordon. 2CD companion piece to From Trash, containing new tracks and an interview CD.)
- 2007 - Metal Beat (2CD interview set between Steve Malins and John Foxx, discussing the making of Metamatic.)
- 2008 - Impossible (with Louis Gordon. Remix album 16/10/2008)[15]
- 2009 - My Lost City (23/02/2009)[16]
- 2009 - A Secret Life (with Steve D'Agostino and Steve Jansen 23/03/2009)[17]
- 2009 - Mirrorball (with Robin Guthrie 04/05/2009)[18]
- 2009 - The Quiet Man (Extracts from the ongoing Quiet Man book read by Justin Barton, together with a new piano score by John Foxx - 27/07/2009)
- 2010 - D.N.A. (06/2010)
- 2011 - Interplay John Foxx and The Maths with Benge (Electronic Musician)
Live albums
- 2002 - The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour (02/12/2002)
- 2006 - Live From a Room (As Big as a City) (with Louis Gordon 16/10/2006)
- 2007 - Retro Future (with Louis Gordon)[19]
- 2008 - A New Kind of Man[20]
- 2008 - Neuro Video (with Louis Gordon 16/10/2008)[15]
- 2009 - In the Glow (05/10/2009)
Compilation albums
- with Ultravox
- 1976 - Rock & Reggae & Derek & Clive (various Island Records' artists compilation)
- 1980 - Three Into One
- 1993 - Slow Motion
- 1999 - The Island Years
- Solo
- 1992 - Assembly (06/1992)
- 2001 - Modern Art - The Best of John Foxx (04/06/2001)
- 2008 - Glimmer: Best Of John Foxx (07/10/2008)
- 2010 - Metatronic
EPs
- with Ultravox
- 1978 - Retro (7" 10/02/1978)
- 1988 - "The Peel Sessions" (12") (Recorded for the John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1, 21 November 1977 - 04/1988)
- with Louis Gordon
- 1997 - Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour (1000 copy numbered edition, with Louis Gordon. From the 1997 UK tour - 10/10/1997)[21]
- 2003 - Drive EP (with Louis Gordon 09/09/2003)
Singles
- With Tiger Lily
- 1975 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" - 3:12 / "Monkey Jive" - 3:36 (7" 14/03/1975)
- With Ultravox
- 1977 - "Dangerous Rhythm" - 4:14 / "My Sex" - 3:01 (7" 04/02/1977)
- 1977 - "Modern Love" (live) - 2:31 / "Quirks" - 1:38 (7" included free with the first copies of the album Ha!-Ha!-Ha!)
- 1977 - "Young Savage" - 2:58 / "Slipaway" - 4:09 (live at The Rainbow) (7" 28/05/1977)
- 1977 - "ROckwrok" - 3:33 / "Hiroshima Mon Amour" - 4:54 (7" 14/10/1977)
- 1978 - "Slow Motion" - 3:27 / "Dislocation" - 2:55 (7" and 12" 04/08/1978)
- 1978 - "Quiet Men" - 3:15 / "Cross Fade" 2:56 (7" and 12" 20/10/1978)
- with Nation 12
- 1990 - "Remember" /"Remember" (Sub Dub Mix) / "Listen to the Drummer" / "Remember" (12")
- 1991 - "Electrofear" (Beastmix) - 4:20 / "Electrofear" (Shemsijo Mix) - 4:20 / "Electrofear" (Dogmix) - 3:56 (12")
- Solo
- 1980 - "Underpass" - 3:18 / "Film One" - 4:00 (7" 10/01/1980)
- 1980 - "Underpass" (full length) - 3:56 / "He's a Liquid" (alternate) - 3:06 (12" promo 10/01/1980)
- 1980 - "No-One Driving" (Remix) - 3:42 / "Glimmer" - 3:35 / "This City" - 3:05 / "Mr. No" 3:12 (double 7" 20/03/1980)
- 1980 - "Burning Car" - 3:12 / "20th Century" - 3:04 (7" 11/07/1980)
- 1980 - "Miles Away" - 3:17 / "A Long Time" - 3:49 (7" 29/10/1980)
- 1981 - "Europe After the Rain" - 3:37 / "This Jungle" - 4:41 (7" 20/08/1981)
- 1981 - "Europe After the Rain" - 3:59 / "This Jungle" - 4:41 / "You Were There" - 3:49 (12" 20/08/1981)
- 1981 - "Dancing Like a Gun" - 3:38 / "Swimmer 2" - 3:30 (7" 30/10/1981)
- 1981 - "Dancing Like a Gun" - 4:11 / "Swimmer 1" - 5:08 / "Swimmer 2" - 3:30 (12" 30/10/1981)
- 1982 - "Endlessly" - 3:51 / "Young Man" - 2:53 (7" 16/07/1982)
- 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "A Kind of Wave" - 3:39 (7" 17/06/1983)
- 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "Dance with Me" - 3:31 (7" 17/06/1983)
- 1983 - "Endlessly" (Remix) - 4:18 / "Ghosts on Water" - 3:12 / "A Kind Of Wave" - 3:39 / "Dance with Me" - 3:31 (double 7" 17/06/1983)
- 1983 - "Endlessly" (12" version) - 7:40 / "A Kind of Wave" (12" version) 4:58 (12" 17/06/1983)
- 1983 - "Your Dress" - 3:59 / "Woman on a Stairway" - 4:28 (7" 15/09/1983)
- 1983 - "Your Dress" - 3:59 / "Woman on a Stairway" - 4:28 / "The Lifting Sky" - 4:44 / "Annexe" - 3:04 (double 7" 15/09/1983)
- 1983 - "Your Dress" - 4:26 / "The Garden" - 7:14 (12" 15/09/1983)
- 1983 - "Like a Miracle" - 5:11 / "The Lifting Sky" - 4:44 (7" and 12" 28/10/1983)
- 1983 - "Like a Miracle" (extended version) - 8:11 / "Wings & a Wind" - 5:17 (7" and 12" 28/10/1983)
- 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 4:52 / "What Kind of a Girl" - 4:40 (7")
- 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 4:52 / "What Kind of a Girl" - 4:40 / "City Of Light" - 3:38 / "Lumen de Lumine" - 2:36 (double 7")
- 1985 - "Stars on Fire" - 7:15 / "City of Light" - 3:38 / "What Kind Of a Girl" - 4:56 (12")
- 1985 - "Enter the Angel" - 3:58 / "Stairway" - 5:00 (7" 20/09/1985)
- 1985 - "Enter the Angel" - 5:52 / "Stairway" - 5:54 (12" 20/09/1985)
- 2004 - "Mr No" / "Mr No" (Joakim Remix) (12")[22]
- 2008 - "Burning Car" (20th Century) / "Burning Car" (Dubterror remix) (12" 22/09/2008)[23]
Box sets
- 2008 - Cinemascope
(Features Crash and Burn, Cathedral Oceans III, Tiny Colour Movies, From Trash, Electrofear and the second edition of the Cathedral Oceans DVD.) The albums and DVD are re-packaged in cardboard wallets, featuring alternative artwork to the original pressings. Six art prints of John Foxx's artwork are also included.
Notes
- ^ "John Foxx and his electric dream". BBC News. 13 May 2010.
- ^ a b http://www.ultravox.org.uk/ImageFolio31_files/media/Fanzines/Extreme_Voice/EV16-issue-web.pdf
- ^ [1] EV16 Fanzine
- ^ "The Golden Section Tour + The Omnidelic Exotour" CDs Booklet (2002)
- ^ The Hidden Man CD, 2006
- ^ "Features | A Quietus Interview | John Foxx Interviewed - The Quiet Man Speaks". The Quietus. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
- ^ Ultravox - The Ultimate Discography http://www.discogs.h17.ru/discographies/ultravox_solo.htm#Tiger%20Lily
- ^ "JOHN FOXX official website METAMATIC : Archive". Metamatic.com. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
- ^ http://www.ultravox.org.uk/images-history/Ultravox-History_Print_v1.0.pdf
- ^ "John Foxx releases live album ''A New Kind of Man''". Side-line.com. Retrieved 11 July 2009.
- ^ http://www.kondoria.it/content/view/301/54/
- ^ John Foxx Official myspace. John Foxx Official Myspace.com.
- ^ Metatronic slicingupeyeballs.com 2010-05-02
- ^ "The Hidden Man". quietcity.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Special Edition CDs..." Metamatic.com. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
- ^ "My Lost City (Townsend Records Exclusive)". Townsend Records. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
- ^ "A Secret Life". Townsend Records. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "John Foxx & Robin Guthrie : Mirrorball..." Metamatic.com. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ "Retro Future". metamatic.com. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ "A New Kind of Man". metamatic.com. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ "Subterranean Omnidelic Exotour (EP)". Louis Gordon discography (photo album). Retrieved 29 June 2010.
- ^ "Mr No". Metamatic.com. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Burning Car/20th Century (remixed) (townsend exclusive ltd edition)". Townsend Records. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
References
- Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, John Bush (2001). All Music Guide to Electronica.
External links
- Metamatic, the official John Foxx site
- Tiny Colour Movies, the official Tiny Colour Movies site
- Cathedral Oceans, the official Cathedral Oceans site
- The Quiet Man, official blog
- Quiet City, comprehensive John Foxx fan site
- A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture Interview with Foxx, talking about the influence of JG Ballard on his work
- The Garden, the first site dedicated to John Foxx on the web
- Rockwrok, the Far East John Foxx/Ultravox site
- Quiet Man, the first German unofficial John Foxx/Ultravox site
- The Jonas Wårstad Ultravox Site, includes informative interview with Warren Cann
- Billy Currie Official Website
- Transplant the Romance, the unofficial John Foxx lyrics archive
- John Foxx Setlists