John Foxx has been name-checked as an influence by everyone from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to the Klaxons and over the last few years has experimented as a film-maker (including a pioneering video for L.F.O. and recent performances of his Super 8 project Tiny Colour Movies in Melbourne, London and Barcelona), artist (his images have been used on the covers of books by Anthony Burgess and Salman Rushdie) and musician and he's now developing a growing international reputation as a writer last year he headlined a major literature festival in Europe where he reads extracts from his as yet unfinished novel The Quiet Man. He's also recently completed an album with Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) due for release in May 2009 and is currently working on new material with Paul Daley (ex-Leftfield).