2006年11月
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先ほど届いたMetamatic Newsより転載です。 ジョン先生の来週のツアーで"Sideways"という新譜が買えるようですね。 誰か行く人がいれば買ってきて欲しいのですが・・・。(^^; 会場先行発売CD"Live From A Room (As Big As A City)"のように またライヴ後に普通に市場に流通すれば良いのですが・・・。 ちなみにこのCDに収録されている曲"And the World Slides Sideways" は7月のUKツアーでオープニング曲でした。 （↓この曲です） http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoAcjLqeTLs ---------------------------------------------- Contents -- "From Trash" is now available from Amazon... -- A reminder about the forthcoming live dates... -- Special edition CD available on the forthcoming tour... -- John to appear on "The Tom Robinson Show"... -- "Teletext" Interview with John... -- New album from Billy Currie... ***** "From Trash" is now available from Amazon... Below is the full track-listing and catalogue number. 01. From Trash 02. Freeze Frame 03. Your Kisses Burn V2 04. Another You 05. Impossible 06. Never Let Me Go 07. A Room as Big as a City 08. A Million Cars 09. Friendly Fire 10. The One Who Walks Through You Label : Metamatic Catalogue Number : META12CD Release Date : 6th of November, 2006 Order your copy on-line at : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JMJUI2/metamatic-21 ***** A reminder about the forthcoming live dates... ** Performance of "Tiny Colour Movies"... The premier of "Tiny Colour Movies" is set to take place at the Brighton Film Festival on Saturday the 18th of November, 2006. John will be performing in an old cinema (The Duke of York Picturehouse, Preston Circus, Brighton BN1 4NA) where the fragments of film that he referred to in the albums sleeve notes will be projected. I understand from John that he's also hoping to perform a couple of new pieces that weren't originally included on "Tiny Colour Movies". Tickets are priced at £10.00, £8.00 members and concessions. Web : http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema_home_date.aspx?venueId=doyb Order your copy of the "Tiny Colour Movies" album at : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FBG02G/metamatic-21 ** Shows with Louis Gordon... Please note that the show in Wolverhampton has now been replaced with a show in Coventry, the show in Rome (originally to be held on the 30th of November) has been postponed until next year, and the show in Verona (scheduled for the 2nd of December) will now take place in Scandiano. I understand that tickets purchased for the Paradiso 65 show, that was unfortunately postponed earlier in the year (19th of July), will still be valid for this rescheduled show (28th of November). The final list of dates is as follows... Friday the 24th of November, 2006 : Academy 3 - Manchester Address : University Union, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PR Phone : (Enquiries) 0161 275 2930 Web : http://www.manchesteracademy.net/ Saturday the 25th of November, 2006 : Coventry Coliseum - Coventry Address : Primrose Hill Street, Coventry CV1 5LY West Midlands Phone : (Enquiries) 0247 655 4473, E-Mail : the.colosseum@excite.com Web : http://www.coventrycolosseum.co.uk/ Sunday the 26th of November, 2006 : 93 Feet East - London Address : 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London E1 6QN Phone : (Enquiries) 0207 247 3293, (Fax) 0207 247 5980 Web : http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/ Tuesday the 28th of November, 2006 : Paradiso 65 - Amsterdam, Holland Address : Weteringschans 6-8, 1017 SG Amsterdam, Nederland / The Netherlands Phone : (Enquiries) publiek 020 - 626 45 21, E-Mail : info@paradiso.nl Web : http://www.paradiso.nl/ Friday the 1st of December, 2006 : Transilvania Live - Milan, Italy Address : Miliano, Via Paravia 59 (S.Siro), Italy E-Mail : info@transilvania.it Web : http://www.transilvania.it/ Saturday the 2nd of December, 2006 : Coralla Club - Scandiano, Italy Address : Viale Della Rocca 10, Scandiano, Italy E-Mail : info@corallodisco.it Web : http://www.corallodisco.it/ Please note that this is the show that was originally going to take place at Gate 52 in Verona, Italy. Sunday the 3rd of December, 2006 : Kaserne - Basel, Switzerland Address : Klyeckstrasse 1b, Reithalle (Basel), Switzerland 4005 E-Mail : buero@kaserne-basel.ch Web : http://www.kaserne-basel.ch/ ** And a reminder to everyone that I'm always on the look-out for more content for the Metamatic Website. I would therefore be very interested to hear from anyone with reviews, ticket stubs and / or photos from any of the above shows. All contributions used on the site will be fully credited. S:-) ***** Special edition CD available on the forthcoming tour... A special edition double CD entitled "Sideways" will be available on the forthcoming tour - probably from the Manchester show onwards. The CD is a collection of psychedelic, electronic and sci-fi themed tracks that were recorded as part of the "From Trash" sessions. One of the songs ("And the World Slides Sideways") was featured as the opening track on this year's July tour. Below is the full track-listing and catalogue number. Disc One 01. And the World Slides Sideways 02. Underwater 03. X-Ray Vision 04. Car Crash Flashback V2 05. In a Silent Way 06. Sailing On Sunshine 07. Use My Voice 08. Neuro Video 09. Phone Tap 10. Impossible (Extended Version) 11. A Room As Big As a City (Extended Version) Disc Two An in-depth interview with John where he discusses the ideas and inspiration behind the "From Trash" album. Label : Metamatic Catalogue Number : META13CD Release Date : 24th of November, 2006 (fingers crossed) Please note that there are already plans to make this CD more widely available before Christmas so that anyone who's not able to get to any of the shows will be able to buy a copy without having to pay 'over the odds'. As usual, I'll post specific details just as soon as they've been confirmed. ***** John to appear on "The Tom Robinson Show"... Monday the 27th of November, 2006 Between 19:00 pm and 21:30 pm on BBC 6 MUSIC Ahead of 6 Music's celebration of all things synth on Back To The Future Day* this Thursday, Tom Robinson invites electronic pioneer John Foxx to perform an exclusive session and talk about his career. John was the front man with post-punk electronic experimentalists Ultravox for their first three albums before beginning a highly regarded solo career. He plays material from his new album, "From Trash", which he has produced with Louis Gordon. The programme also features sessions from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., recorded exclusively in the 6 Music Hub. *Back To The Future Day celebrates the 25th anniversary of the arrival of synth-based pop music into the mainstream with special guests, and counts down the Top 10 synth riffs of all time, as voted for by listeners. ***** "Teletext" Interview with John... John recently did an interview that briefly appeared on "Teletext" - and here it is for anyone who missed it... TT : Hi John, how the devil are you? JF : I'm a very well devil, thanks - How are you? TT : Tell us about the "From Trash" album - was there a masterplan behind it? JF : Nope - masterplans never seems to work for us. We tend to sort of cut ourselves out of the wreckage, see how lost we are, then use the bits to construct a shelter for the next year or so. TT : Did you have a clear musical vision with it or did you make it up as you went along? JF : Not at the start - but that theme of trash emerged as we went on. There's always this damn sound you have in your head - something you want to get to. Occasionally you might stumble somewhere near it. Feels like herding a fleet of red herrings. This time, we wanted the sound of cities colliding through cheap B movie themes. Lush and brutal, with brief interludes of gratuitous tenderness. A number of things happened and they all got turned into songs - Louis and his family got an apartment as big as a city - a moment of pure happiness. On the deficit side - Just to make up for that - we realised the world was sailing on sunshine and that we'd all become someone else after leaving our respective urban war zones. TT : And what is the significance of the title? JF : Well, trash is where we both came from - and I guess it's a common story. Louis and I are from similar backgrounds - extended post working class families. He comes from a hellish sink estate in Manchester and I'm a post-industrial smalltown boy. We had to leave and start again. Makes you realise that even if you're fortunate enough not to be an immigrant of some kind, at some point in your life. You almost always have to walk in at the bottom of the heap and start again. Happens to everyone - step into the schoolyard, become an adult, get divorced, get old, emigrate - There's always that terrible moment where you realise you're at the bottom of the heap and somehow you have to make your way through it all. The only asset you have is a sort of blind bravado. Also, everything I love tends to have been regarded as trash - comics, cheap music, sci-fi movies, urban myths, street fashion, psychedelia. Got almost everything from this stuff by remote osmosis - Jack Kirby taught me to draw, Nigel Kneale taught me to enjoy ideas, William Burroughs taught me to remain sceptical. Andy Warhol showed me how to enjoy it all and retain some sort of weird dignity. So I seem to be constructed almost totally from elements seen by everyone else as trash, or fragments of completely overlooked, neglected and forgotten things. Had no choice really. Little access to anything else in Chorley. Grown up all wrong, I guess. TT : Are you content with the results? JF : Never content. On with the next thing. It treads new territory so people will always struggle to describe the music. Do you have a zappy phrase for the music on it? Electron Rock. Displacement Dance. WarpWaltz. A Posthuman Carbon Debt Royalty Statement. Inevitable Music. Concrete Beat. Car-Crash Thrash. Corrugated Headphone Polka. Silicone Surgery Soundtrack. Genesplice Muzak. TT : How do you react if people suggest the music is difficult or complex? JF : Always react in a very civilised way, these days. I guess it's as difficult as you want to make it. We always start viscerally and detect any themes afterwards. Other people will often come up with angles we never thought of. Seems to be a good sign - let things breed by themselves. As long as you can still throw yourself around to it, we're happy. TT : Some of it is actually quite poppy - we're guessing they're your bits! JF : Not necessarily we both like similar kinds of pop - ramshackle pop. Pop in a ripped suit. Been up all night, bewildered pop. TT : How did you meet Louis Gordon in the first place? JF : Some friends persuaded me to go to a party in a bizarre mansion / commune in Shropshire. Full of smoke and lights and confusing in just that way we all like. Everyone was dancing. Towards dawn, the smoke cleared - and there was Louis. He'd done it all with a worn out synth, a crappy drum machine and a borrowed guitar. Played four hours straight and never put a foot wrong. Evoked the spirit of the "14 Hour Technicolour Dream" and the Summer of '88. Everything worthwhile, in other words. I thought I've got to work with this guy. Turns out first record he bought was "Burning Car". We met up in Manchester a couple of weeks later and started recording. Haven't quite finished yet. It's Louis who wants to do the touring, too - All his fault. TT : How do things work between you? Is it a genuine collaboration, whose ideas emerge first? JF : It's a collaboration. I usually have plenty of songs - synth sounds and figures and a drum machine rhythm. Some basic tunes, titles and words and chord structures. I deliberately don't define anything too closely, too fast, having learnt years ago that's how you kill songs - they might sound ok, but they'll be inbred. You have to let other people walk them. Let them off the leash. See what they run off and mate with. I also tend to get another rush of ideas when I actually begin singing and playing, as we record. Louis also has lots of bits - from finished tracks to pure sounds. He records all the time now he's got his studio sorted. We compile everything that seems appropriate and useful, then edit. It's a completely ruthless process. Very swift. We both tend to be fairly prolific, so lots of stuff gets ditched. No arguments, no mercy. In the end - if we're lucky - we witness a small miracle birth surrounded by a plane crash worth of wreckage. All very moving. We don't talk much. Non verbal sonic communication of the third kind. TT : In terms of your music now who would you describe as your biggest influences? JF : I've forgotten. They've all been absorbed into the gene pool. A bit like "The Thing" - recognisable fragments emerge briefly, howling out of the mass of heaving protoplasm. This time, one song certainly had Roxy DNA - a pointed tip of the hat, really. Always a touch of Velvets vinegar and some salt and pepper from Ig. Then a wee smile as Europe and Britain got rude with Miss America. The rest was us. Credit cards into light. TT : It's 25 years since "Metamatic", can you see a natural progression in the music since that time? JF : Entirely unnatural, really. Natural regression, if anything. I think I'm going into the future in reverse. It's so hard getting it simple, as Mark Smith always says. I've always liked the idea of discarded retrofutures and recovering things you lost, as well as being completely out of synch with everything else, most of the time. Feels pleasant and right to me. Driving on the pavement. Hands off the wheel. Driving forward using a rear view mirror. Fate of the world. TT : And what do you think of "Metamatic" now? JF : Haven't listened to it much. It turned out to be a vicious typecasting exercise akin to working on "Coronation Street" - No, that's not quite accurate. It's a sort of life raft on stormy seas - No, that's not it - It's my Frankenstein and it may kill me yet - not quite - Ah, it sits there sneering at me as I get older. Telling me to get surgery, disappear, crash cars, surrender to Michael Jackson and President Bush and live in London when it's all overgrown. Or it diverted me from my true vocation of Family Centred Academic living in France. - Or Serious Visual Artist in Spitalfields. - Or Unemployed in Archway. TT : The first three Ultravox albums were reissued not so long ago - how did you feel about that? JF : Blew the dust off and bits of them were still alive. Pleasing, I guess. TT : Did you listen to them? JF : Just once. TT : How do you look back on those days? JF : The photos show someone young, vain, angry, bewildered, aloof, uncertain, foolish and pretty in a certain fleeting light. Too much energy for my own good. Thought I had it all pinned down, but of course I had no idea what the hell was going on, but that never stopped anyone. Wanted a Big Adventure. In other words - exactly how you have to be when starting a band - the daftest endeavour in the known universe. Apart from serving in McDonalds. TT : How do you feel about music today? Do you listen to new music? Anything or anybody caught your ear? JF : Lots - I think this is a very rich period - more music available and more people listening than ever before, thanks to my ugly pal, technology. That old monopoly of the single's been broken, and that means we've been freed up - for a while at least. What's been lost in discipline and form seems to be amply replaced by diversity and imagination. Pop just jumped in the car and drove off in all directions. TT : Are you flattered or annoyed when people compare you to Brian Eno? JF : Didn't know anyone did. Bright boy, but I've got longer legs. TT : What's your favourite album / single of 2006? JF : Albums... Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye Hot Chip - The Warning Clinic - Visitations Thom Yorke - Eraser Single... Hot Chip - Colours TT : What's your favourite album / single of all time? JF : Single - Smokestacks Lightnin : Howlin Wolf This was the first time a sound shook me - still unrivalled, a real recording of a moment. Crackles with raw human electricity. Permanent music. Ought to be a compulsory component of every time capsule and every unmanned space mission. Album - "The Pearl" - Harold Budd and Brian Eno, recorded by Daniel Lanois. Perfect record - and a perfect meeting of sensitivities - Harold's elegant Lost City piano playing, Harold and Brian's vision of a new modern music - all captured in infinite perspective through Dan's astounding spatial abilities. Achingly beautiful. A modern classic. TT : What are your plans next year? JF : To put on a damn good show at the ICA and pursue this "Tiny Colour Movies" and "Cathedral Oceans" thing until I have it all as a portable device to promote wonder and destabilizing joy in overlooked neglected forgotten things. TT : Any unfulfilled ambitions? JF : All of them, so far. At least the horizon's becoming visible. ***** New album from Billy Currie... It's been two years since "Still Movement", so not before time we have a brand new album from Billy Currie - "Accidental Poetry of the Structure". The full track-listing is as follows... 01. Accidental Poetry of the Structure 02. Williams Mix 03. Skips of a Chopped Head 04. Krakow 05. Idee Fixe Movement Three 06. Matsang River 07. Hall of Impressions 08. Folly Brook 09. Compassion 10. Listening to Strength Label : Puzzle Release Date : 6th of November, 2006 Order your copy on-line at : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000J4QPZG/metamatic-21 *****
＞DJ刈さん 楽しんでいただけてよかったです。(^^) ＞ それにしても やたら精力的な活動ですね。 ここ最近のJohn先生のモチベーションの高さは凄いですよね。 ファンとしては嬉しい悲鳴と考えたほうが良いですね。 ああ、早く新譜聴きたいです。
詳細な英国レポートが聞けて とても感激しました。 それにしても やたら精力的な活動ですね。 ジョン先生は。