NEWS UPDATE: 2ND SEPTEMBER 2026

Thanks to Rory, Dario, Richard, John, Alex, Samantha, Rupert, Buck, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

On 2nd September at 5am, the official Brian Eno YouTube channel was due to arrive at The Station. But it hit the buffers for some reason, and now the ETA is supposed to be 9th September with a low-res photo of Brian laughing. Apparently YouTube Stations are 24/7 streams of existing material on a particular channel.

TAKING THE MICHAEL

German music journalist and broadcaster Michael Engelbrecht will be hosting the very final episode of his radio series Klanghorizonte on 24th September from 9:05–10:00pm, on Deutschlandfunk. Michael has been a strong supporter of Brian over the years and interviewed him on numerous occasions. The show will include a little audio commentary Brian sent in answer to a question.

ITALIAN JOB

A round-up of what happened in Italy this summer.

STREAMO

Gary Hustwit's film ENO is now available to stream in the USA on the Criterion Channel, and worldwide via Vimeo. The intention is for the versions to change regularly, though Vimeo seems to have been running with v5.08 for well over a month.

ROXY DELUXE

November sees a release of For Your Pleasure in a variety of deluxe formats with additional tracks.

SLEEP NO MORE

The Eno brothers teamed up to mark World Sleep Day on 13th March.

It turned out this was to promote a track by each of them, initially exclusive to Amazon Music: Roger's "Tributary" (a tribute to Erik Satie) and Brian & Beatie Wolfe's "Afterlife". Meanwhile, B&B's track "Big Empty Country" got benched.

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. ALSO ACTIVISM.

Brian continued to talk about the problems with wealth distribution, and other current topics.

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NEWS UPDATE: 22ND FEBRUARY 2026

Thanks to Rory, Dario, Richard, John, Alex, Samantha, Bernd, Iain, Rupert, and EnoWeb's own newsbot Tom Boon in no particular order for these news items.

Brian Eno's work will be celebrated in Parma, Italy, this year. Two projects are planned, running from 30th April to 2nd August: My Light Years (an art career retrospective) at the Crociera dell'Ospedale Vecchio, and SEED at Giardini di San Paolo. SEED is a collaboration between Brian Eno and Ece Temelkuran, and will take the form of Installation for Giardini di San Paolo, a site-specific audio piece. A recording from the installation will be pressed onto a one-off vinyl record which will be added to the Casa del Suono's collection.

Eno STREAMO

Five iterations of Gary Hustwit's Eno film will be streamed at different times over 22nd-25th February.

BLOCK HEAD

EnoWeb's holiday from updates meant we failed to mention Brian's been-and-gone exhibition at Paul Stolper gallery, which was somewhat remiss even by our woefully low standards. Blocks consisted of stencil-painted birchwood panels, created in a similar fashion to the limited edition version of What Art Does.

Vinyl Countdown

Rough Trade has released a 50th Anniversary edition of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts on mint-green vinyl. Meanwhile for Record Store Day on 18th April, Small Craft On A Milk Sea will be reissued on as a double 140g Black Bio Vinyl album, including the bonus tracks from the original box set/singles plus live Seven Seas Sessions. Record Store Day's track listing refers to one bonus track as "Abandoned Shops" when the original title was rather more on-theme "Abandoned Ship". Possibly just a typo. Other Eno-adjacent RSD releases include David Bowie's Excerpts from Outside and Hallo Spaceboy.

SLOW DANCING

2nd March will see the release of a new collaboration between Brian and Bette A.: Slow Stories: A Collaboration of Storytelling, Music, and Art, exclusively released by Unnamed Press. A limited edition of 444 copies, this collaboration compiles Bette A.'s new book Slow Stories, a vinyl LP of Bette reading two of her stories backed by Brian's music, plus a painting by the duo on canvas board. The artists’s proceeds will go to their chosen charities, The Heroines! Movement and EarthPercent. Bette A.'s book will also be published separately.

RESIST IS AN ANAGRAM OF SISTER

Brian will be one of the rabble-rousers at the DiEM25 event Resistance Is Existence: The Fight For Our Future on 24th March. Apparently "we will bring together the voices that the establishment keeps trying to silence". EnoWeb hadn't noticed any apparent silencing of voices from those on the list of attendees, but we expect that's simply what "the establishment" [citation needed] want us to think. Or more likely an example of AI-written hype: later on the page uses the structure {thing} is not {A} — it is {B}, which AIs just love. But what benefit do AIs gain from pushing the narrative that there is an ill-defined "establishment" dedicated to sticking a gobstopper in the works? One argument is that they simply regurgitate the text, videos, images, and other data upon which they have been trained, so they reflect common opinion back to us one word at a time. But just suppose that isn't the case... What then?

Brian is one of the signatories on a letter calling for higher taxes on the super-rich. In November he appeared on Sky News, and on 22nd January he appeared on the BBC programme Politics Live to discuss the idea.

Palestine: The full Together 4 Palestine concert is available to stream. Brian donated an artwork called "Seeing Through to Sky" to an auction in aid of Health Workers 4 Palestine. He also supported a campaign to save the Aida Youth Centre's football pitch used by young players, being famous for his love of the game as evidenced by his involvement with the 1990s James song "Goal Goal Goal". Fianlly, he contributed to Love is Resistance: 77 Tear-Out Posters for Palestine.

Brian has joined the Together Alliance, which opposes the politics and activities of the far right.

GONE NATIVE

Shortly before it hit financial trouble, Native Instruments released Absynth 6, a new version of its semi-modular synthesizer. Eno was among the artists who provided a few presets for it.

UTOPIARY

Oxford Ministry for the Future will present A History of Utopia with Kim Stanley Robinson and Brian Eno on 23rd November. An assemblage of photographs on the page shows Robinson distracted by Peter Chilvers' look of distraction as he suspects he left the gas on at home, while Brian is distracted by the same photo of Robinson and realises too late that they are stuck in a recursive loop. Some Utopia, huh?

EDGE OF DISASTER

There is an old proverb: "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas". Less widely observed is the impact upon those who lie down with those who lie down with dogs. Over the years, EnoWeb has linked to Eno-related videos and articles on EDGE.org, which saw itself as a kind of salon: in the words of its editor, publisher, and president John Brockman, "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." The EDGE site lists hundreds of people as contributors to its mission.

In 2012 Brockman told John Naughton in The Observer Review: "Edge is a conversation – it's not a magazine written for the public. The audience for the contributors to Edge is the other contributors. The readers have the opportunity to look over the shoulders of some extraordinarily gifted individuals as they go back and forth in the battle of ideas." So far, so salony, but EDGE needed donors and one of them was Jeffrey Epstein. As has been seen from "Epstein Files" PDFs relating to prominent people in the UK, there was always a quid pro quo with a man who (ignoring the obvious) thrived on privileged information and networking opportunities. Brockman was in regular contact with Epstein, regularly CC'ing him alongside other EDGE contacts in emails trumpeting EDGE's latest triumphs, and appears to have developed a somewhat proprietorial attitude to his EDGE cohort.

In early November 2011 Brian Eno was staying in the USA; this may well have been the same trip as his 29th October appearance at Moogfest, and he had appeared on The Colbert Report broadcast on 10th November. He sent a private email to John Brockman explaining that he might extend his stay in New York for a couple of days which could enable them to meet up. Brockman apparently thought nothing of forwarding this email on 14th November to Epstein and proposing a meeting and dinner for later in the week, Epstein then being out of the city. Jeffrey agreed and the wheels were set in motion. EnoWeb would have imagined they would have gone to Burger King or a Wendy's, but Epstein wrote of trying a new chef which we hope was not some ghastly euphemism. This would not have been an intimate dinner à trois, as the smoke-signals were sent up for other diners. By early evening on 14th, any dinner on Thursday was off – Eno and Brockman suddenly being unavailable. Two versions of this email appear to have been sent, the second referring to Epstein's current absence from NY. Other prospective guests were informed of the cancellation. And that, m'lud, is how my client was surprised to find his name appearing in the "Epstein Files".

Brockman's sense of ownership over his EDGE buddies continued during EDGE's active lifetime. On 18th March 2018 the Great Man put forward a Big Idea to his mate Jeffrey. Brockman's plan was that "Your friend in the Middle East [who] is coming to the US tomorrow ... may be able do a lot more for his people (while spending less) by acquiring Brockman, Inc. and gain immediate access to the world's great scientific minds, while doing so in a deep way where, in effect, the Sovereign Fund would be their agent. ... An interesting ancillary benefit: The net worth of the 40 guests at my 2014 "billionaires dinner" was equal to combined wealth of 60% of all Americans". At the end of his email Brockman gave a huge list of the worthies whom he was seemingly willing to sell off or sell out: Eno, Dawkins, Chomsky, Anderson, Reece, Sutherland, Suskind and MANY, MANY MORE! PRICES SLASHED AS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE MUST GO IN BROCKMAN'S BIGGEST EVER SALE!!!! As far as EnoWeb is aware, the deal did not go ahead and Brian Eno remains British Territory rather than annexed to a petrostate. A narrow escape all the same.

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