13 extreme voice Warren Cann A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW FROM 1986... Plus: MIDGE URE Out Alone II & III • JOHN FOXX Rare in Eden Thanks to: Introduction Warren Cann for unstinting support. Hello, thanks for joining us for another issue of EV. As you’ll have noticed by now, the Midge Ure. quality has improved somewhat! From now on, EV will be properly printed throughout. Billy and Heidi Currie. Let us know what you think of the new format! Paul Cauldwell and Roy Meredith of Quite a few subscriptions run out with this issue, in which case your address label will Karussell Records. say “subscription expires with EV13”, and a sub renewal form will be enclosed. The rates have increased slightly to accommodate postage increases and printing costs, but we Steve Davies of think you’ll agree that EV is still good value for money at £5.50 for the year (or however Chrysalis Records. long it takes us to get three issues out!). Talking of which, EV14 will be out very shortly, Peter Gilbert and probably by the beginning of December, so please get those subs in as quickly as Frank Drake. possible, so that we know roughly how many issues to print. EV15 will follow hot on its Kate Hanson of CMO. heels, roughly at the beginning of February next year. That issue will probably be taken up with something that we’ve had countless requests for – the most complete Ultravox Mel Brown of BMG. (and related) discography ever published. We’re not sure yet whether it will all be in one Jo Murphy and Sam issue, or in sections with several issues as a kind of A5 ring-bound affair – we’re looking of Windsong. into it! We’ve been researching the discography for over a year, and it is currently being checked by seven collectors and general boffins, one of these being Warren Cann! If you Sir Harry Cowell. know of any items that you think we might have missed, please do drop us a line. All Steve Cox. contributors will be credited. Ginny Clee. Something else we’ve had quite a few requests for is a Songwriter’s Corner. This will Barbara Marsh. start next issue, so get that pen to paper. This is your chance to be published! Simon Edwards. Finally, something that we’d like to try and do is put your questions to band members, Steve Weltman. and print their replies. We’ve had no luck tracking down John Foxx as yet, but we can contact Warren, Midge and Billy, and possibly even Chris. Questions on postcards or the Thanks also back of a sealed envelope only, please, and we’ll do our best. Here’s the address! to the following for contributions: Cerise Reed and Robin Harris, Extreme Voice, “Fernleigh”, 8 High Street, Staple Hill, Bristol BS16 5HP. Andy Carruthers. Tel: (0272) 570 747. Jasmine-Sharon Chin. All the very best! Alison Collins. Paul Hitchcock. Michael Hole. Stephen Graham. Simon Joslin. Carole Kelly. Rob Kirby. Gary Mack. Alison McBride. Paul & Karen O’Donnell Rob Portman. Dean Price. Angel Cuartiella Roca. Cover photograph by Peter Gilbert, reproduced by permission. Steve Vox. Tim Welsh. Windsong confirm that it would embarked on a number of one- be regarded as a John Foxx off live performances around release even though it would the UK and Europe in churches include two tracks performed chosen from an architectural with Ultravox. guide for their natural echo qualities. He also began JOHN FOXX - A.W.O.L. collaborating with Tim Simenon The column that asks, and released a single, whatever happened to...? Remember, with him under the Melody Maker, 4th June 1994. name Nation 12 in 1990. Another single, Electrofear, “John Foxx founded the this time without Simenon, synthesiser band Ultravox in followed in 1991. The project London in 1974. Heavily was supposed to have influenced by German synth continued, but difficulties at the JOHN FOXX pioneers Kraftwerk and Brian label brought about a Eno, they signed to Island in premature end. He subsequently Here’s some great news! 1976 but were destined to be a created the music for the video Windsong International have band both out of step and games Gods and Speedball II. been able to license the ahead of their time. There More recently he was to have following tracks from the BBC eponymous debut was been the third collaborator on Ultravox today (left to right): Billy Currie (Keyboards, Viola), Sam Blue (Vocals), for a possible future release: produced by their mentor Brian the recent Harold Budd / Andy Tony Holmes (Drums), Gary Williams (Bass) and Vinnie Burns (Guitar). Eno but had little success. A Partridge LP but other Hiroshima Mon Amour and further two albums, Ha! Ha! commitments made it Slow Motion Ha! and Systems of Romance impossible. John Foxx with Ultravox on the didn’t fare much better and in third solo album, The Golden Huddersfield Poly) HELDEN Old Grey Whistle Test (1978). 1978 Ultravox were dropped by Section, onto compact disc in the 3) Young Savage (recorded live Island. Foxx left the group to near future. Although we have no at The Marquee, London) There is still some hope of life Underpass and Blurred Girl pursue a solo career with Virgin specific details at the moment, we 4) The Wild, the Beautiful and being breathed into the Helden John Foxx on the Old Grey Records. think that it is unlikely that it will the Damned (recorded live album Spies. If all goes well Whistle Test (probably 1980). include any extra tracks - however at The Rainbow, London) there will be a special issue of By this time, Ultravox’s role in we have been pleasantly surprised 5) My Sex (recorded live at Extreme Voice to celebrate the Lose all Sense of Time, paving the way for the likes of in the past. Huddersfield Poly) release of this ‘lost’ album next In Mysterious Ways, Gary Numan and The Human 6) Quirks year. Fingers crossed. Warren Shine On and Stars On Fire League had become obvious He is now widely known as JOHN FOXX 7) Modern Love moved back to America in John Foxx on John Peel‘s late and Ultravox enjoyed a new Europe’s leading expert on the 8) Man Who Dies Every Day August this year and will be night show (1985). lease of life with their huge process of computer imaging, Here’s an oddity... it seems that (German remix) there for quite a while, but this 1989 LP Vienna, while Foxx and his work has adorned many the Open University recently 9) Hiroshima Mon Amour is unlikely to be a permanent Hopefully, the following tracks achieved more modest success book covers, including Jeanette used the start of Twilight’s Last (original version) arrangement (we hope!). could also be included, however, with his bleak LP, Metamatic, Winterson’s Oranges Are Not Gleaming as the introductory 10) Quiet Men (full version) this very much depends on including chart hits with the Only Fruit. He teaches this music to a program on the BR whether or not the master tapes Underpass and No-one technique at art schools across high speed 125 train... When we mentioned this to ULTRAVOX can be located: Driving. He released a further the country. Warren, he said that he was sure three albums, The Golden ULTRAVOX AND JOHN FOXX that there were a couple of Thanks to Heidi for sending us Hiroshima Mon Amour, Section, The Garden and In He is currently working on tracks which were destined for the following information:- The Shadow of Your Smile Mysterious Ways, before music with Robin Simon, an old Fans of John Foxx will also be the first album, but because of and Twilight’s Last Gleaming taking a break from the music Ultravox colleague, and his pleased to learn that there could the time limitations that you have The new Ultravox album, John Foxx on Radio One’s scene in 1985. His next project brother Paul Simon, who also be another Island compilation in with vinyl, they were not entitled Ingenuity, will be Saturday Live programme was in 1987, an unreleased LP drums with Glen Matlock’s new the offing. We have suggested included. One of these tracks released very soon. Ultravox (December 1983). of ambient church music, band, The Mavericks.” the following tracks to form the was called Car Crash Flashback, have just signed to Intercord, Cathedral Oceans, some of basis of the album :- the other was City Doesn’t which is a part of EMI for Morning Glory, In Mysterious which has been used on the JOHN FOXX - Care. Warren has since located Germany, Austria and Ways and Hanging in the Air BBC programme, Horizon. THE GOLDEN SECTION 1) Slip Away (recorded live at his tape of these tracks, and if Switzerland, and the album John Foxx on Radio One’s The Rainbow, London) the compilation goes ahead, they should be released there this Saturday Live programme Throughout the rest of the Apparently Virgin Records are 2) The Man Who Dies should also be included. Get that October, and also in Australia (November 1985). decade and into the Nineties he considering re-issuing John’s Everyday (recorded live at cash at the ready! and New Zealand. A single of MIDGE URE have released a sequel. Rare for them to consider a third CHRYSALIS 25th ULTRAVOX – REISSUES Volume Two, cat. no. Chrysalis instalment. How does this ANNIVERSARY BOX SETS Midge has been writing the new CDCHR 6078, follows on sound for a possible Rare Ultravox – Vienna Many Ultravox albums are now album with an American called directly from the first instalment Volume Three? deleted, but without giving too Richard Feldman.