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Archive for the ‘John Foxx’ Category

Escaping the gaze: A review of John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies

By Simon Sellars • Aug 7th, 2008 •

Category: America, CCTV, Chris Marker, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair, John Foxx, YouTube, alternate worlds, architecture, film, invisible literature, media landscape, music, reviews

This is a review of John Foxx’s Melbourne performance of Tiny Colour Movies, his found-film collection and live soundtrack. For the reviewer, witnessing this may have solved a two-year-old puzzle; certainly, it brought everything full circle back to Ballard.


A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture: The John Foxx Interview, part 2

By Simon Sellars • Sep 2nd, 2006 •

Category: Australia, Brian Eno, John Foxx, William Burroughs, cyberpunk, film, interviews, music, punk

Interview by Simon Sellars

John Foxx live at Shrewsbury, 1998. © Extreme Voice.
This is part 2 of my interview with John Foxx, former lead singer of Ultravox before the band’s Midge Ure era, and an on-and-off solo artist for the past 25 years. Foxx’s Ultravox purveyed a damned, dreamy, paranoid — and often playful — weave [...]