These articles are in pretty good chronological order. The "date added" symbol
shows you what's new in the archive since your last visit (if anything). Some
pages use JPEG scans rather than OCR'd text; where this is the case, we mention
it so you don't waste time downloading if you don't want to. If you don't
know where to start, click here for EnoWeb's
top 5 picks. We are always keen to add to this archive - if you can help,
please contact us. Articles
on the Web that we come across in between updates are generally linked on
the news pages, so do check those out as well.
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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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Eno: The Monkey Wrench Of Rock Creates Happy Accidents on 'Tiger
Mt.'
From Circus, probably in 1974. Taken from the Jeffrey Morgan
archive. JPEG photocopy page scans.
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Treasure Island
A profile of the Island record label from
Cavalier, probably in 1974. Taken from the Jeffrey Morgan archive. JPEG
photocopy page scans.
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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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Downbeat - PRO SESSION - The Studio As Compositional
Tool
Probably the most requested article in EnoWeb's history... kindly
typed and supplied by David Bass |
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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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Mistaken
Memories of Medieval New York/ White Fences/ Motion Study
A programme
including an essay on Brian's video installations. JPEG page
scans.
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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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1985 |
New life of
Brian
From an unknown UK colour supplement (date unknown, probably
1985). With that popular title that says so much.
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The Sound of
Silence: A Thursday Afternoon with Brian Eno
From Electronics &
Music Maker, December 1985, by Phil South
Major revelation: "I'll
just say something like 'import and export', and that stops people
dead."
Minor revelation: Eno has cracked and bought a
DX7.
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NME: Proxy
Music
An interview from New Musical Express, 9th November
1985
Major revelation: "Makes me feel like a hippy."
Minor
revelation: "I can't do simple things like finding a
flat."
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A Real
World Experience Park
Quotes from Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel on the
Real World Experience Park projects.
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Eno on Eno:
Theory, Practice and Process
From an unknown publication, probably in
1985 or 1986. Taken from the Jeffrey Morgan archive. JPEG photocopy page
scans.
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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." |
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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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1998 |
50
Eno Moments
As part of Great Britain's National Celebrations to mark the
50th Birthday of Brian Eno, this Independent On Sunday article showcases 50
"decisive, influential... or just plain Eno-ish" moments, including mention of
recordings done earlier in 1998. May 1998.
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Eno's no bounds
The party continues, with this Guardian
article, including mention of Dolly Parton. May 1998.
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To Infinity
and Beyond
Brian talks about most of his albums, from MOJO, June 1998,
including mention of Warm Jets.
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How We Met: Brian Eno and Tom Phillips
Brian and Tom discuss
their friendship, from The Independent On Sunday.
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Bang On A
Can All-Stars: Music For Airports
A review of the Stansted Airport gig,
from The Wire, kindly typed and supplied by Robert Phan
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