Three weeks ago we got another missive from the John Foxx mothership. There was a new compilation LP gathering up all of the “Metamatic” era singles/B-sides and adjacent music on a good old fashioned black vinyl LP. 140 g one hopes. Metamatic has been busy this year with the LPs as this is the fourth one issued and it’s only June! It’s called “No One Driving” and it looks very familiar.
John Foxx: No-One Driving – UK – LP [2025]
- Underpass (Single Edit)
- Film One
- No-One Driving (Single Version)
- Glimmer
- Mr. No
- This City
- Burning Car
- 20th Century
- Cinemascope
- To Be With You
- Miles Away
- A Long Time
All of the A-side mixes/edits and B-sides are accounted for and the two extra songs were taken from cassettes and notes and completed by Foxx for the 2007 2xCD DLX RM of “Metamatic” and have been associated with the mothership era ever since. The cover pic taken from the “No-One Driving” single sleeve makes it look dangerously close to the 1981 Canadian compilation simply called “John Foxx” and also compiled from that album era/campaign.
The LP will be released on September 12th, 2025 and to herald its appearance Foxx will be doing in-store signings in the UK. I have already ordered this and the “Evidence” LP that I was slacking on for too long today, but if it’s your turn then DJ hit that button.
JOHN FOXX IN-STORE SIGNING | UK
- Friday, Sept 12 | Rough Trade East | London
- Saturday, Sept. 13 | Sister Ray | London
- Monday, Sept. 15 | Rough Trade | Bristol
NEU METAMATIC T-SHIRT
If you’re strapped for appropriate Foxxian garb to wear to those UK signing events, then you might be just be the target audience for a new “Metamatic” T-shirt design that 1of100 is currently offering.
1of100, as their name implies, make limited run, numbered T-shirts of whatever they design. The shirts are numbered from 1 to 100 on presumably the wooden button that is attached near the hem of each shirt. The interesting thing is that any buyer gets to pick the number they want. For a limited run organic cotton T-shirt the £48.00 asking price is not terribly onerous. If I didn’t have the more beautiful full color blue tee [with the full neon tube “M” that Metamatic produced many years ago and I bought for myself, because I HAD TO, I would probably want one of these! But if you want one know that there’s only three left! Numbers 72-74, for some reason. DJ hit THAT button!
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Post-Punk Monk 
In a steel cage match, which one would win, “Metamatic” or this compilation? Frankly, I couldn’t decide.
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If you are into your vinyl this is a nice release. I’m happy with my various CDs that contain these tracks. I always thought this was a good photo of John. So nice to see it being made use of again.
Interesting that ‘Miles Away’ and ‘A Long Time’ have been included on a ‘Metamatic’ era collection as in more recent reissues John has preferred to lump them in the ‘The Garden’. It makes sense though as all four singles came out in 1980.
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Andy B – I’m so not into records but Foxx is ultimately the last artist I “collect.” I want to have a copy of each Metamatic Records catalog number. Sad, I know.
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