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| 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." |
| Here Come The Warm Jets A review from Creem, October 1974 |
| Eno: organizer of musical events Brian fiddles with a toy ukelele and talks Roxy and June 1. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| 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. |
| Eno: on top of Tiger Mountain An interview from Melody Maker, October 1974. Carpeting doesn't even get a look-in. |
| Eno Music: the Roxy Rebellion Interviews with Chris Thomas and Eno, from Phonograph Record, November 1974 |
| The inmates have taken over A review of an ACNE concert from Creem, December 1974 |
| Eno An examination of Eno's career and plans up to Taking Tiger Mountain. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| Texans like... From NME, December 1974. |
| Fripp and Eno: No Pussyfooting Around An interview with Robert Fripp with comments from Brian, from Hit Parader, probably in 1974. 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. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| Scaramouche of the synthesizer An interview from Creem, July 1975 |
| Eno: This studio is a musical instrument Early musings on the role of the studio - and the spec of the Eno/Wyatt/Manzanera studio |
| I Want to be a Magnet for Tapes Brian discusses plans for his new Obscure Records label; the title is a thought he has now wiped |
| Rock-A-Rama: Another Green World A brief review from Creem, March 1976, by Jeffrey Morgan |
| Nearer my Eno to thee Reviews of Discreet Music and Another Green World, from Creem, April 1976 |
| Interview with Brian Eno Speaks for itself, really, as does Eno. From Punk, probably 1976. Courtesy of the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| Reviews of 801 Live Three reviews of 801 Live. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Another False World The second part of the interview outlined above, from New Musical Express, December 1977 |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Eno sings with the fishes A review of Before and After Science, from Village Voice, 4th March 1978 |
| Before and After Science A review from Creem, April 1978 |
| Before and After Science A review from Rolling Stone, May 1978 |
| Phil Manzanera and 801 Soar A review from Rolling Stone, September 1978 |
| Eno, before and after Eno in New York to produce Talking Heads. |
| 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. |
| Eno At The Edge Of Rock From Interview, sometime in 1978, kindly typed and supplied by James Bailey |
| 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." |
| Lester Bangs interviews Eno From Musician sometime in 1979 Major revelation: Snake guitar. Minor revelation: "I often work by avoidance." |
| No New York A review from Creem, April 1979 |
| Music for Films Another review from Creem, April 1979 |
| No New York A review from Rolling Stone, May 1979 |
| Music for Airports A review from Rolling Stone, July 1979 |
| More songs about typing and vacuuming An extract from an interview with Tina Weymouth from Creem, October 1979 |
| How to live with Fear A review of Fear of Music, from Rolling Stone, November 1979, kindly typed and supplied by Steve |
| Creative Playtime with Brian Eno From Hit Parader, sometime in 1979 Part of the Jeffrey Morgan Archive |
| Energy fails the magician At last, we find out what happened in the Lost Years, in this interview from Melody Maker, January 1980. Also called "Energy foils the magician". |
| Eno: The electric boogaloo Discussion and review of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, from Melody Maker, February 1980 |
| Africa Calling A review of Remain in Light, from Rolling Stone, December 1980 |
| 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. |
| The Life of Brian in the Bush of Ghosts More on Ghosts, the Heads, the matches and the waitress, from Sounds, March 1981 |
| Atmospheres in the home A review of Ambient 4: On Land, probably from New Musical Express |
| Going, Going, Ghana! from Trouser Press #61, May 1981. OFFWORLD: Article exists outside the EnoWeb. |
| Does this Global Village have two-way traffic? A review of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, from Rolling Stone, August 1981 |
| Eno in Mad City A comic strip lampooning Eno's serious image, by Alex Blair and Bruce Carleton, WARNING - this is a large gif image (497K). From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| 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. |
| Interview: An Evening with Brian Eno From The Complete Music Magazine circa 1982 Major revelation: "I feel that life is more strange now than I did when I was young." Minor revelation: "I have a box of 160 aromatic oils." |
| Brian Eno Against Interpretation Brian's views on many subjects, from Trouser Press. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| Profile: Brian Eno In Modern Recording & Music, Brian discusses On Land. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| Brian Eno From People, 1983 Major revelation: "I was glad when my lung collapsed." Minor revelation: The Static. |
The 'furniture music' of rock star Brian Eno |
| The life of Brian From The Observer Magazine, 23rd October 1983. A visit to the hermit-like Brian Eno's 13th-floor apartment in New York. And the first Eno interview to get the title that so appeals to journalists and sub-editors across the globe. |
| The Life Of Brian Interviews with Brian Eno and Harold Budd from Electronic Soundmaker & Computer Music, October 1984. There it is again, you see. Major revelation: "It was actually an EMS VCS3..." Minor revelation: Eno lives in a Paris hotel. He does not own a DX7. |
| New life of Brian From an unknown UK colour supplement (date unknown, probably 1985). With that popular title that says so much. |
| A meeting of sound minds John Cage and Brian Eno - together for the first time! |
| Musician Magazine, September 1985 A brief excerpted quote from an Eno feature. |
| The Sound of Silence: A Thursday Afternoon with Brian Eno From Electronics & Music Maker, December 1985 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. |
| 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." |
| A Real World Experience Park Quotes from Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel on the Real World Experience Park projects. |
| Over and over From The Observer, Sunday 23 February 1986 Major revelation: "Eno compares the structure of his music to a slice of the earth's atmosphere." Minor revelation: Eno is now "quietly spoken and quietly dressed." The interviewer seems slightly disappointed. |
| Music For Earthquakes Eno discusses On Land, Talking Heads and childhood games. |
| Brian Eno’s Luminous Fringe U2, installations, lyrics, studio equipment, from Musician. From the Jeffrey Morgan Archive. |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Man Out Of Time Oracles, dreams, Zvuki Mu, Charlatan, Spin, May, 1989. |
| 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." |
| Back to the Future From Q Issue 50, November 1990 Major revelation: "Eno actually enjoys approaching tasks the wrong way." Minor revelation: "a sprig of lavender, which he twirls and sniffs appreciatively." |
| The making of Achtung Baby by Brian Eno |
| Brian in Wonderland - Ein Interview mit Eno From jazzthetik magazine. Interview conducted by Michael Engelbrecht, kindly transcribed by Bommel. We had this mis-filed prior to July 1996. And even more mis-filed prior to September 1996. Major revelation: First uncle. Minor revelation: Eno is the termite of temptation. |
| The Odd Couple The strife-torn creation of Wrong Way Up. |
| Scents and Sensibility From Details Magazine, July 1992 Major revelation: Nardo. Minor revelation: Buttocks. |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| Searching high and low A review of Eno's lecture "Perfume, Defence and David Bowie's Wedding", from The Independent, Thursday 23rd July 1992 |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Brian Eno: Music For Listeners In the Audio Interview, Brian discusses My Squelchy Life, Nerve Net, remixing and how he gave Phil Collins a start on the ladder of fame. |
| Eno on James and Wah-Wah |
| The Guardian, November 26, 1993 Some quotes from an interview with Eno by Jon Savage, published in The Guardian (a British national newspaper) on Friday November 26th, 1993. |
| The Wire Dec./Jan. 1993-94: Eno on Miles Davis |
| Eno's Graduation Address to the Art Center College of Design (Europe) |
| Interview: Observer Life: A Room of My Own. published early 1994? |
| From Jams to James From The Mix, September 1994 Major revelation: "An important question to ask is 'what wouldn't you do?'" Minor revelation: "Ring modulation is a whole subject on its own." |
| Interview: An Hour of Silence An excerpt from a radio program on John Cage, broadcast January 1995. |
| Eno: Gossip is Philosophy From Wired, 1995. |
| Eno From Keyboard, March 1995. |
| The Oblique Strategist from Mojo, June 1995 Major revelation: "We're making magazines not novels." Minor revelation: "Anal is the word." |
| 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'." |
| 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." |
| 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." |
| Bowie on Eno From Interview magazine, September 1995. |
| 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." |
| Ambient Reflections From Studio Sound, October 1995. |
| Jingle the other one from The Guardian, October 1995 |
| 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." |
| Games for Musicians From Raygun sometime in 1995, sourced by Albert Carrasco |
| Review of Eno's recent work from the Boston Phoenix, Nov 10-16, 1995. |
| 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. |
| The Black Box of Culture From The Oregonian, January 18th 1996 |
| In Defence Of Jarvis by Brian Eno From the "Another View" column of The Independent, Thursday 22nd February 1996 |
| Eno on KOAN Pro From The Independent, Friday 1st March 1996 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brian Eno by Tom Hart A cartoon from Pulse! magazine, March 1996, with Eno On Some Faraway Beach. WARNING - GRAPHICS-INTENSIVE! |
| Wish 'n' Chips An article from Time Out, April-May 1996 |
| 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. |
| The Brain of Brian From The Guardian, Friday May 10th 1996 Major revelation: Generative Music Minor revelation: Judi Dench |
| 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 |
| This is the future From The Observer Preview, 12th-18th May 1996. Major revelation: Minister for the future Minor revelation: Outrageous ideas |
| A brief snippet from The Independent From The Independent, 16th May 1996. |
| Q & A with Brian Eno From The San Francisco Chronicle, June 1996. |
| HotWired Interview with Eno The transcript from HotWired, June 1996. |
| HotWired Overview of the Imagination Conference Text and RealAudio files, including presentations from Brian Eno, Spike Lee and Laurie Anderson, from HotWired, June 1996. |
| Generative Music The text of Eno's Imagination lecture, from the In Motion site. |
| My Ever Changing Moogs From Q magazine, July 1996. Major revelation: "I'm so evangelistic" Minor revelation: "It's like hiding a little jewel" |
| 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" |
| Brian Eno's generation game From The Independent, 29 July 1999 |
| 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" |
GQ&A: Lenny Henry and Brian Eno |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| I thought, My God, is helping this easy? From The Independent, December 1996. Eno explains his Scrooge-like conversion. |
| Musical Milestones: White Light/White Heat Eno explains about his one-off single in the Independent, January 1997 |
| Son, Arise Lennon-esque wordplay from Eno on the occasion of David Bowie's 50th, from GQ, January 1997 |
| What this country needs is... A few modest proposals - Eno's election manifesto for 1997, from New Statesman, March 1997 |
| A big theory of Culture From EDGE, April 1997. |
| Eno Eno on Krautrock & Cluster, from Mojo, April 1997 |
| Voting intentions Eno's voting intentions, from New Statesman, April 1997 |
| This just in... Eno explains his motives for moving to St Petersburg, from Mojo, May 1997 |
| You can do anything, just don't fall asleep Eno turns columnist, from The Observer, June 1997. |
| Look back in languor Whatever happened to Roxy Music, from The Guardian, June 1997. |
| Where the shops have no name Another e-mail, from The Observer, July 1997. |
| Untitled From The Wire, July 1997, kindly typed and provided by Robert Phan. |
Russia. Not a pighole (honest) |
Of mice and me |
| Review of The Drop By Michael Engelbrecht, translated by Bommel |
| Who Said Vodka Wasn't A Tonic? The final e-mail from St Petersburg, from The Observer, November 1997. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Eno's no bounds The party continues, with this Guardian article, including mention of Dolly Parton. May 1998. |
| To Infinity and Beyond Brian talks about most of his albums, from MOJO, June 1998, including mention of Warm Jets. |
| How We Met: Brian Eno and Tom Phillips Brian and Tom discuss their friendship, from The Independent On Sunday. |
| 1999 |
| Revenge of the Intuitive An article for WIRED by Brian, pointed out by Nenad Georgievski |
| 2000 |
| The Wire: Silent Retreats Brian gears up for Sonic Boom |
| Garageband Chat Questions and answers with Garageband members [archived here until Garageband is back up and running] |
| 2001 |
| 'It seemed close to deceitful that our money hadn't gone where it ought to' Brian explains the decision to part company with War Child in 1999 or early 2000. OFFWORLD: article exists outside EnoWeb at The Guardian. |
| Cash for Questions Brian answers readers' questions for Q magazine. |
| MOJO: "So why are we doing this?" Brian talks production and Drawn From Life with Andy Gill, plus a review of the album |
| Uncut: The Man Who Paul Morley interviews Brian and massages EnoWeb's ego by mentioning the site |
| Uncut: Drawn From Life review |
| Artpress: In the Enosphere Interview by Franck Mallet |
| 2002 |
| Cosmic Joe and the Sound of Silence An interview with Laraaji by Kevin S.Eden -- EnoWeb exclusive! |
| Mis-Sc@ns |
| Warped realities from our Optical Character Recognition Software... Getting stranger by the month, but each showing a new insight into Brian's moods and motivations. |
