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WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Prog
|Issue 165
Ambient artist travels back to the 70s with synth-heavy utopian soundtracks.
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GORDON CHAPMAN-FOX MIGHT not look like an archetypal pop star, though his abundantly monikered musical project has visited the UK Top 30 singles chart twice, in 2023 and earlier this year. Furthermore, could Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan be the longest name in chart history?
“I don’t know if they’ve ever chartered but Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra have got a pretty long name,” says Chapman-Fox, who has just pulled up at Cheshire services to conduct this interview on the way to Cardiff where he'll be playing a show tonight.
This story is from the Issue 165 edition of Prog.
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