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“Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)

By Mike Holliday • Nov 5th, 2009 •

Category: Ambit magazine, Iain Sinclair, Lead Story, New Worlds, Savoy Books, William Burroughs, alternate worlds, body horror, censorship, horror, humour, interviews, punk, surrealism

The story of Savoy Books is one of the most strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. Mike Holliday talks to Savoy co-founder Michael Butterworth about all this and more, including the guidance Butterworth received as a young writer from J.G. Ballard.


‘Der Visionär des Phantastischen’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard

By Dan OHara • May 4th, 2008 •

Category: Germany, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, archival, drugs, media landscape, politics, punk, science fiction, sexual politics, space relics, speed & violence, surrealism, technology, urban revolt

Another installment in Dan O’Hara’s re-translations of archival German Ballard interviews: a 1982 conversation conducted by Werner Fuchs and Joachim Körber.


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 [...]