re:VOX

03/07/2025

The latest edition of Blitzed! magazine ( #21) - joining the previously announced Classic Pop Live Aid Special on newsagent shelves tomorrow - contains a Steven Swaby interview with Midge Ure on both that topic, and also focussing on his many career highlights to date.

A huge thank you to all our brilliant readers for the ongoing support, kind messages, and incredible positivity on social media. Issue 20, featuring the iconic Hazel O’Connor, was a standout success, and your heartfelt reactions to our exclusive interview with Hazel in France meant the world.

26/06/2025

Arriving in stores shortly, and now available directly from their web-store, Classic Pop magazine's latest Special celebrates the 40th anniversary of Live Aid. Doesn't seem possible!

To celebrate 40 years since Live Aid, this in-depth special edition revisits the greatest live event the world has seen.

20/06/2025

If you're already making plans for the autumn, then take note that the Design Museum is hosting 'Blitz: The Club that Shaped the 80s' from 20th September - 29th March next year, with input from many of those involved at the time. Neatly tying in to this is a new book of the same name from one of the men on the scene at the time, Robert Elms, published by Faber on 2nd October with an RRP of £20. https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s #

Delve into the music, fashion, and design stories that shaped Blitz – the club, the people, and the movement that transformed 1980s London style.

20/06/2025

Just time for some quick catch-ups :-) You'll have seen, I'm sure, the recent press call that Midge and Bob did at Wembley for the new run of the Just For One Day musical. An album of cast recordings, arranged by Matt Brind, will also be made available. Not unsurprisingly, the BBC intends to mark the concert's 40th anniversary with a three-part documentary, drawing on the concert footage, during July.

09/05/2025

The latest edition of Electronic Sound ( #125), just on sale this week, includes a capsule review of the latest John Foxx album 'Wherever You Are'.

Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke + ‘The Men Who Dance In Stag’s Heads’ turquoise vinyl seven-inch single

24/04/2025

While there's nothing from John Foxx's early solo work selected for the forthcoming Now That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980 > 1984, his latest work Wherever You Are is now out on CD and Vinyl, although a limited run of copies on the latter format are selling fast.
In addition, John has just announced the release of a new, limited edition Metamatic T-Shirt celebrating the album's 45th anniversary, created in collaboration with

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24/04/2025

News just in - the track listing for the second in the new Now off-shot Era compilations has just been announced, and it's a slightly strange one at that! Now That's What I Call an Era: The Albums 1980 > 1984 features all deep album cuts that were never UK singles.
Whether you want to buy it or not will depend on how many albums you have by the artists represented here, really. Amongst many of the artists you'd expect to see (Japan, The Police, Wham...), and a few you might not (Laurie Anderson, for instance), are Ultravox's New Europeans (a Japanese only single, of course), and Visage's The Anvil (Night Club School).
Here's the SDE story for the full track listing.

News 24 Apr 2025 Now That’s What I Call An Era: The Albums 1980 > 1984 Deep cuts! By Paul Sinclair 14 NOW Music will issue a second volume under their ‘Now That’s What I Call An Era’ banner. The first volume – The Sound of the Suburbs – focused on music from the late 70s, whereas this ...

10/04/2025

Just in case you missed the news latest week, or disregarded it as an April Fool's Day spoof, Chrysalis' announced a budget-price version of last year's long-since sold-out Lament Super Deluxe Edition CD set last week.

This time around, the Lament boxset is housed instead in a clamshell box, and it's release perhaps explains why there was no Ultravox RSD release this year, nor news of any upgraded U-Vox album, as might have been expected this year.

Due out on 13th June, retailing around the £45 mark, it's been suggested that this new format might be test marketing for slightly less grandiose expanded reissue packages for U-Vox and Brilliant in future years. Time will tell.

10/04/2025

Approaching it's 100th edition, the bi-monthly Classic Pop magazine is back this week with a stand-out review of John Foxx's latest album in #93 (May/June 2025).

11/02/2025

The new issue of Classic Pop out this week ( #92 - March/April 2025) devotes a mammoth five pages to this issue's classic album: Metamatic (this latest issue isn't up on the website yet).

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07/02/2025

This is a bit of a novelty, in that's its a non-story in a way; the news being that there isn't any news.
Today saw the release of the Record Store Day list for this year's event on Saturday 12th April. Having carefully trawled the list to see what goodies it might contain, the major surprise amongst the huge 21 page catalogue is the absence of any Ultravox release from either Chrysalis or Island.
So, unless its going to be a late entrant - which often does happen where RSD is concerned - as the previous few years releases from Chrysalis have all been trailers for their next boxset, I'm not sure what that says about whether the series is intending to extend to U-Vox (and ultimately close with Brilliant), as I'm sure many will have been hoping.
Time will tell, but perhaps this is only a breather after the Lament avalanche last year.

03/02/2025

Also announced last week, a new solo piano album from John Foxx: Wherever You Are, featuring a series of early morning recordings, taped after a live performance on BBC Radio 3 ’Night Tracks’ event in London back in October 2023. Released on 28th March, the album comes as a clear vinyl LP, with 4-page insert and signed A4 print, and on CD as well.