| 1973 |
Eno
Creates New Frictions / Naked and Neurotic
From Creem,
probably 1973. Join Eno on a nude photo shoot. WARNING: this file
refers to {ahem} adult subject-matter. Do not read if easily led.
From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Eros
with Eno
A scan of a photocopy of some photos of Eno
taking photos, probably 1973, by Pennie Smith. It's all right, Brian
stays behind the camera this time. Worth including as an indication
of his '70's image at the time, and also for the great captions.
WARNING - this is a large jpeg image (379K). From the Jeffrey Morgan
Archive.
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 Bubbly
Bubbly Eno
Eno discusses Here Come The Warm Jets.
From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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 Fripp
Pussyfoots With Eno
Robert Fripp discusses Fripp &
Eno. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Cuttings
A
collection of small snippets of Eno history, from Roxy's visit to
Salvador Dali up to 1978. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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| 1974 |
Everything
you'd rather not have known about Brian Eno
From New
Musical Express, February 2, 1974
Major revelation:
Never give interviews when you're going through your Wild Rock Star
phase.
Minor revelation: "Carpeting gives you a
whole new outlook on life."
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Here
Come The Warm Jets
A review from Creem, October 1974
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Eno:
organizer of musical events
Brian fiddles with a toy
ukelele and talks Roxy and June 1. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Eno
and the Jets: Controlled Chaos
His advance publicity has
emphasised the {ahem} social side of his nature -- but Brian has hit
humid Chicago with the onset of flu. This makes him say the F-word a
lot. From Rolling Stone and the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Eno: on
top of Tiger Mountain
An interview from Melody Maker,
October 1974. Carpeting doesn't even get a look-in.
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Eno
Music: the Roxy Rebellion
Interviews with Chris Thomas and
Eno, from Phonograph Record, November 1974
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The
inmates have taken over
A review of an ACNE concert from
Creem, December 1974
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 Eno
An
examination of Eno's career and plans up to Taking Tiger
Mountain. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Texans
like...
From NME, December 1974.
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Fripp
and Eno: No Pussyfooting Around
An interview with Robert
Fripp with comments from Brian, from Hit Parader, probably in 1974.
From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. Find out why Brian chose the title
"Swastika Girls". The EnoWeb wonders: What kind of mean
streets did Brian walk down in those days, if that's the kind of
litter that just happened to be on the pavement? We only get crisp
packets in the EnoWeb's area.
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| 1977 |
8 days
a week
Did you know Eno once kept a week's diary at the
request of Melody Maker? This was published in January 1977.
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Before
and After Science
This classic two-part interview has it
all (where "it" is a sub-set of stuff including Eno's view
of the rise and fall of Roxy Music, his accident and ambient
revelation, problems with Before and After Science, David
Bowie's odd eating habits, and the last UK sighting of the word "gramophone").
Warning! Eno uses the "C" word - and I don't mean "Culture".
From New Musical Express, November 1977.
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Another
False World
The second part of the interview outlined
above, from New Musical Express, December 1977
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Brian Eno
"They
think I'm Mr. Cold. But I'm not really you know." From RITZ,
late in 1976. Courtesy of the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Island
Biography of Eno
Island's biography of Brian, sent to
reviewers when Before And After Science was released in the
US. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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| 1978 |
ENO
From
Zigzag Magazine, January 1978
Major revelation: Beware
Shadows.
Minor revelation: You may be famous, but that
doesn't mean the interviewer has to be able to spell your name
correctly.
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Eno
sings with the fishes
A review of Before and After
Science, from Village Voice, 4th March 1978
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Before
and After Science
A review from Creem, April 1978
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Before
and After Science
A review from Rolling Stone, May
1978
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Phil
Manzanera and 801 Soar
A review from Rolling Stone,
September 1978
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Eno,
before and after
Eno in New York to produce Talking Heads.
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Math
Qualities of Music Interest Eno
Eno talks Talking Heads
and imagines a time when there will be special mood music records.
From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
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Eno At
The Edge Of Rock
From Interview, sometime in 1978, kindly
typed and supplied by James Bailey
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ENO=MC²
An
interview from Creem, December 1978
Major revelation: "you
can be more intellectual"
Minor revelation: "I
don't mind very much at the moment if I fail."
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| 1979 |
Lester
Bangs interviews Eno
From Musician sometime in 1979
Major
revelation: Snake guitar.
Minor revelation: "I
often work by avoidance."
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No
New York
A review from Creem, April 1979
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Music
for Films
Another review from Creem, April 1979
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No New
York
A review from Rolling Stone, May 1979
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Music
for Airports
A review from Rolling Stone, July 1979
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More
songs about typing and vacuuming
An extract from an
interview with Tina Weymouth from Creem, October 1979
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How to
live with Fear
A review of Fear of Music, from
Rolling Stone, November 1979, kindly typed and supplied by Steve
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Creative
Playtime with Brian Eno
From Hit Parader, sometime in
1979, part of the Jeffrey Morgan Archive
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| 1981 |
Eno:
Keyboard Wizards
Originally published in 1981, then
repeated (with a new introduction) in Keyboard Wizards, Winter 1985
Major
revelation: "I must produce a hundred times the amount of
music I release."
Minor revelation: The guitar Eno
owns has only five strings.
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The
Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts
More on Ghosts,
the Heads, the matches and the waitress, from Sounds, March 1981
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Atmospheres in the home
A review of Ambient 4: On Land,
probably from New Musical Express
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Going,
Going, Ghana!
from Trouser Press #61, May 1981. OFFWORLD:
Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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Does
this Global Village have two-way traffic?
A review of My
Life in the Bush of Ghosts, from Rolling Stone, August 1981
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Eno in
Mad City
A comic strip lampooning Eno's serious image, by
Alex Blair and Bruce Carleton, from the Jeffrey Morgan Archive.
WARNING - this is a large gif image (497K).
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Explorateur
Musical En Afrique (Musical Explorers in Africa)
Reporters
from Actuel meet up with David Byrne and Jon Hassell but Brian's not
saying anything, in this dream-like stream of consciousness -- or
possibly stream-like dream of consciousness. We are indebted to Juan
German, who sourced it, and Richard Joly, who translated, typed and
supplied it.
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| 1989 |
Brian Eno: "A
fervent nostalgia for the future" - Thoughts, Words, Music
and Art. Part One.
From Sound On Sound, Vol 4 Issue 3,
January 1989
Major revelation: "I have many, many
rhythms, maybe 20 or 30 going on at once"
Minor
revelation: "the girls' legs get longer and longer."
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Brian Eno: "A
fervent nostalgia for the future" - Thoughts, Words, Music
and Art. Part Two.
From Sound On Sound, Vol 4 Issue 4,
February 1989
Major revelation: "It is not
generally the artist, but the critic/journalist who finds it
necessary to pigeon-hole."
Minor revelation: "I
never met a man more terrified by silence."
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 Man
Out Of Time
Oracles, dreams, Zvuki Mu, Charlatan, Spin,
May, 1989.
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Keyboard:
No Fast Cuts: Brian Eno - On Simplicity, Context, & The
Necessity Of Urgency
An interview from Keyboard, June 1989
Major
revelation: "I also call it 'ism-ism'."
Minor
revelation: "that quiet voice, elegantly inflected,
courteously inquiring whether I take my tea English-style, with
milk."
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| 1992 |
Scents
and Sensibility
From Details Magazine, July 1992
Major
revelation: Nardo.
Minor revelation: Buttocks.
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Sound and
Vision
From the Independent on Sunday, 2nd August 1992
Major
revelation: "He made one solo tour and lasted five nights
before going to hospital with a collapsed lung."
Minor
revelation: "I'm Mr Stingy, Mr Cut Through Options."
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Brian Eno
- Ambiguity, Yams & Ju-Ju Spacejazz
From Mondo 2000
magazine
Major revelation: "meaningless lyrics are
actually not interesting, if they're clearly meaningless."
Minor
revelation: The secret of Eno's cognac habit.
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Searching
high and low
A review of Eno's lecture "Perfume,
Defence and David Bowie's Wedding", from The Independent,
Thursday 23rd July 1992
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New
sounds mixed up with vision
From The Times, Saturday
August 29th 1992
Major revelation: "It's a great
time."
Minor revelation: "I suddenly
discovered myself to be a post-modernist."
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Taking
Modern Culture by Strategy
From The Wire, Issue 104,
October 1992
Major revelation: "if there is any
unit of cultural intelligence, it's empathy."
Minor
revelation: "this record isn't made for February, it's made
for September."
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Interview:
unpublished was done for a magazine that went under before
this was published. This was posted to alt.music.brian-eno. We had
this mis-filed prior to July 1996.
Major
revelation: Godlessness.
Minor revelation: "I'm
the last surviving user of the DX7, I think." |
| 1995 |
Interview:
An Hour of Silence
An excerpt from a radio program on John
Cage, broadcast January 1995.
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Eno:
Gossip is Philosophy
From Wired, 1995. OFFWORLD:
Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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Eno
From
Keyboard, March 1995. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the
EnoWeb.
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The
Oblique Strategist
from Mojo, June 1995
Major
revelation: "We're making magazines not novels."
Minor
revelation: "Anal is the word."
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Boys
Keep Swinging
An interview with David Bowie and Brian Eno
from Time Out, August 23-30 1995
Major revelation: "I
have millions of tapes at home I haven't released."
Minor
revelation: "it's shocking to say ... 'I am a piece of
meat'."
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Eno on
War Child
From Melody Maker, 9th September 1995
Major
revelation: "I'm perhaps more politically interested than I
ought to be."
Minor revelation: "What
politicians want more than anything else is stability."
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Immaculate
Conceptions
From the Independent on Sunday, 10th September
1995 - same session of interviews as the Time Out article
Major
revelation: "The advantage the popular arts have is that
they are not ideologically proud."
Minor revelation:
"My palette is open."
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Bowie
on Eno
From Interview magazine, September 1995. OFFWORLD:
Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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Strategies
for making sense
From The Wire, Issue 139, September 1995.
Major
revelation: [after Cage] "the act of listening is
in fact an act of composing."
Minor revelation: "I'd
rather talk about abstract things."
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Ambient
Reflections
From Studio Sound, October 1995. OFFWORLD:
Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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Jingle
the other one
from The Guardian, October 1995
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Ambient
is all around
from The Daily Telegraph, Friday November 17
1995
Major revelation: "I invented Ambient music."
Minor
revelation: "I like having ideas but I'm not particularly
keen on flogging them to death."
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Games
for Musicians
From Raygun sometime in 1995, sourced by
Albert Carrasco
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Review
of Eno's recent work
from the Boston Phoenix, Nov 10-16,
1995. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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Profile
- Brian Eno
From Future Music, Issue 38, December 1995;
this local file will be replaced with a link to the
Futurenet site when the
article is posted there.
Major
revelation: "Technology should be chosen by a meritocracy -
but it never is."
Minor
revelation: Eno has two DX7s and a DX7 MkII.
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| 1996 |
The
Black Box of Culture
From The Oregonian, January 18th 1996
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In
Defence Of Jarvis by Brian Eno
From the "Another View"
column of The Independent, Thursday 22nd February 1996
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Eno on
KOAN Pro
From The Independent, Friday 1st March 1996
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PC
Format: Before and After Science
From PC Format, Issue 54,
March 1996; this local file will be replaced with a link to the
Futurenet site when the
article is posted there.
Major
revelation: "[Koan Pro] is a new future for music."
Minor
revelation: Eno's views on Headcandy
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Ideas
of infinity and falling apart
Exclusive to the EnoWeb in
this language, this interview highlights some of Eno's ideas for his
shelved 1996 album
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Brian
Eno by Tom Hart
A cartoon from Pulse! magazine, March
1996, with Eno On Some Faraway Beach. WARNING - GRAPHICS-INTENSIVE!
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Wish
'n' Chips
An article from Time Out, April-May 1996
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Presents
for future use
Extracts from the "Now You See it"
Hypersymposium, from The Wire, May 1996, with contributions from
Eno, DJ Spooky and Peter Gabriel, amongst others.
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The
Brain of Brian
From The Guardian, Friday May 10th 1996
Major
revelation: Generative Music
Minor revelation:
Judi Dench
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The
Interview
From The Independent on Sunday, 12th May 1996.
Major
revelation: Why, when Eno offers you a drink, it's safer to
decline
Minor revelation: Mud-wrestling
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This is
the future
From The Observer Preview, 12th-18th May 1996.
Major
revelation: Minister for the future
Minor revelation:
Outrageous ideas
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A brief
snippet from The Independent
From The Independent, 16th
May 1996.
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Q
& A with Brian Eno
From The San Francisco Chronicle,
June 1996. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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HotWired
Interview with Eno
The transcript from HotWired, June
1996. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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HotWired
Overview of the Imagination Conference
Text and RealAudio
files, including presentations from Brian Eno, Spike Lee and Laurie
Anderson, from HotWired, June 1996. OFFWORLD: Article exists
outside the EnoWeb.
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Generative
Music
The text of Eno's Imagination lecture, from the In
Motion site. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the EnoWeb.
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My Ever
Changing Moogs
From Q magazine, July 1996.
Major
revelation: "I'm so evangelistic"
Minor
revelation: "It's like hiding a little jewel"
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Brian Eno
in Conference with CompuServe
Major revelation: "My
feeling is that music has slightly died"
Minor
revelation: "I spend a lot of time talking"
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Brian
Eno's generation game
From The Independent, 29 July 1996
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Getting the
picture by Eno, from W magazine, Summer 1996
Major
revelation: Why do people make art?
Minor
revelation: "elaborately prepared curries with silver leaf"
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GQ&A:
Lenny Henry and Brian Eno from GQ, September 1996
Major
revelation: Eno listens to bootleg shock!
Minor
revelation: The Darwin of culture
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William
Gibson on Brian Eno
The godfather of Cyberpunk on the Guru
of New Age. Oh, sorry, we meant "on the godfather of Ambient",
from Arena, November 1996
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Art for
art's sake...
A report on War Child's Milestones event
from the Observer, December 1996. Eno confirms something we've
suspected for some time.
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I
thought, My God, is helping this easy?
From The
Independent, December 1996. Eno explains his Scrooge-like
conversion.
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| 1997 |
Musical
Milestones: White Light/White Heat
Eno explains about his
one-off single in the Independent, January 1997
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Son,
Arise
Lennon-esque wordplay from Eno on the occasion
of David Bowie's 50th, from GQ, January 1997
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What
this country needs is...
A few modest proposals - Eno's
election manifesto for 1997, from New Statesman, March 1997
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A
big theory of Culture
From EDGE, April 1997. OFFWORLD:
THIS ARTICLE EXISTS OUTSIDE THE ENOWEB.
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Eno
Eno
on Krautrock & Cluster, from Mojo, April 1997
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Voting
intentions
Eno's voting intentions, from New Statesman,
April 1997
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This
just in...
Eno explains his motives for moving to St
Petersburg, from Mojo, May 1997
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You can
do anything, just don't fall asleep
Eno turns columnist,
from The Observer, June 1997.
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Look
back in languor
Whatever happened to Roxy Music, from The
Guardian, June 1997.
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Where the
shops have no name
Another e-mail, from The Observer, July
1997.
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Untitled
From
The Wire, July 1997, kindly typed and provided by Robert Phan.
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Russia.
Not a pighole (honest)
Yet another e-mail, from The
Observer, August 1997.
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Of mice
and me
Look, it's an e-mail, okay? From The Observer,
September 1997.
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Review
of The Drop
By Michael Engelbrecht, translated by Bommel
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Who Said
Vodka Wasn't A Tonic?
The final e-mail from St Petersburg,
from The Observer, November 1997.
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Russia:
A temple to ambient light and sound
Brian talks about
Russia and his Lightness installation. Great to see the old
grumpster back in action! Kindly supplied by the article's writer,
John O'Mahony.
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