Chords for John Foxx - Interview (Riverside)

[Ab] These last two years?
I'm in makeup for the first six months, but no, _ _ actually I've been off to Italy.
I went to Italy for a bit.
_ And _ then I went to America for a bit.
And then I came back here for a bit.
Have you been working in these places or have you been holidaying?
_ Holidaying?
Yes, both, in fact, yeah.
I went to have a look around and to have a holiday and to work.
I was just thinking about the album that's coming out.
What's it called?
The Golden Section.
What does that mean?
Oh! _ _
Stoney Woods.
_ _ _ _ Don't touch that, that's anti-_
_ Thank you.
Cheers.
Thank you very much.
To the album and the tour?
_ I'll have this one.
Cheers.
I like the blue one.
What is this?
My left turn, blue.
_ _ It takes quite a long time for you to put an album together, why?
_ I'm dead lazy, I think, really. _
You can't say that.
Is it down to the method that you work intentionally?
_ Over a short period?
About two days a week.
And spend the rest of the time in Cannes.
[Fm] _ _ Good.
_ _ And, no, just what I do is I did another album and scrapped it because I didn't like it very much.
Now, did you scrap a whole album?
Yeah.
None of this appears on the Golden Section?
One or two bits do.
But I do that all the time because I record bits all the [Ab] time.
If I don't like them, I throw them away.
What about the tour, John?
When do you start?
October the _ 13th, I think.
Where?
When's your first date?
The Hacienda in Manchester.
Oh, how good would that be?
In fact, I think we'll cross you on tour because we're going out with a living TV show.
How do you feel about it, though? _
Good, actually.
I think I'm quite excited about it.
I mean, it's something I want to do because I like it.
I like being on stage, but I haven't wanted to do it until now
because of the nature of the kind of tracks I've been recording.
You know, they were like _ the frozen electronics stuff, _ which I don't like anymore.
I don't want anything to do with it.
But have you missed being away from the stage and away from the lights?
Not the lights.
I just like people.
I just like being_
I like that feeling that you get at gigs when it works properly
and people kind of _ merge.
_ It's funny.
I would just sound pretentious talking about it,
but it's like it doesn't happen in any other kind of_
any other way of_ You ask.
There's one question I'm bursting to ask.
It's a bit of an obvious one.
The old _ Ultrabox days.
Can I actually still ask you about that?
Are you still identified in any way with Ultrabox?
Well, it looks like I'm definitely having it.
It's the end, but I mean, the public.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's pretty strong identification, I think, isn't it?
Is it a tag you hate?
No, not particularly, because it's just part of the history
and I just think it's something that I did.
What was the last time you were on stage?
The last time was about three or possibly four years ago, I think, wasn't it?
_ _ Um_
Ooh, Los Angeles or San Francisco or somewhere like that.
I can't remember.
One of those places that you kind of go barmy at
and then find yourself in England walking around at four o'clock in the morning trying to find breakfast.
Are you nervous?
Do you feel nervous about going back on the road now?
Or do you just feel excited about it or scared still?
Uh, yeah.
All of them?
Everything.
No, I think I'll enjoy it.
I do like it.
I hope you do.
We're just rehearsing and it's really exciting now.
It's going like a bomb. _
Well, good luck.
Thanks.
We'll be there. _