John Foxx - The Quiet Man

A spoken word CD containing some of the surreal, dream-like stories from John Foxx’s on-going novel about London The Quiet Man, will be released by Metamatic Records on Monday, 28 June, 2010. The CD features a 16-page booklet, with all the images created by Foxx.‘The origins of the novel are firmly cinematic,’ says Foxx of The Quiet Man project. ‘I found an old grey suit in a charity shop in the 1970s. Over the years, I got some friends to wear the suit in various locations in London. I filmed them just walking or sitting in cafes or apartments. As I did this, The Quiet Man story began to emerge. It’s about London becoming overgrown, about the suit being alive somehow, and the way cities can alter us - and our memories.  ‘It’s also about film’, he adds. ‘In the novel, The Quiet Man walks into the screen at one point. I think we all do this when we view a film, we enter into it. Participate. Travelling without moving. If that isn’t magic, I don’t know what is.’ In recent years, John Foxx has been experimenting as a film-maker (including a pioneering video for L.F.O. and recent performances of his Super 8 project Tiny Colour Movies in Melbourne, London and Barcelona), artist (exhibitions in London and New York and his images have been used on the covers of books by Anthony Burgess and Salman Rushdie) and musician and he's now developing a growing international reputation as a writer. He is currently working on new material with Paul Daley (Leftfield) and with Benge as John Foxx & The Maths.

 

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