Before ‘No Reply’ had a music video, it had a 16-year-old in his bedroom in Somerset with a camera, a lot of modelling clay and some doll’s hair. Terry Thomas, younger brother of The Foxes’ singer Nigel, made this stop-motion animation entirely by himself, frame by painstaking frame, over several months in 2010. Progress reports didn’t always go smoothly: “The filming is going well, I have over a minute now but your head fell off yesterday.”
The Foxes were a London indie band who toured from Inverness to Hawaii, picked up two UK Indie Top Ten singles and recorded their album ‘Last of Many’ at the famous Sawmills Studios in Cornwall with producer John Cornfield (Supergrass, Muse). ‘No Reply’ appears on that album and on their 2010 EP ‘Depression, Joy and a Moment of Fame’.
Nigel is now telling the whole story, the highs, the lows and the near misses, in his weekly Substack ‘How to Almost Make It’, built from the real diaries, emails and scrapbooks he kept at the time. New instalments every Thursday at 9am.
Read The Foxes Diaries here
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Chocolate Spaniel
10 hours ago
RIP Patrick Stewart 😢😢😢
Barrie
7 hours ago
I heard in the pub tonight & a bloke didn't regognise the name or photographthe landlady showed him.
maddadof
8 hours ago
Sad to hear the news RIP Captain..
A Nick Name
9 hours ago
I just looked that up as I hadn't heard and couldn't believe he's from my old stomping ground. If I'd known where he lived I could have walked from my house to his in less than 30 minutes and often did walk that way.
Tim
9 hours ago
Great actor. For me he will always be known as Captain Picard. RIP.
DaSoothMoother
10 hours ago
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Em
14 hours ago
Apologies to anyone who has emailed in, I won't be able to answer as quickly as normal as I had to go to A&E after having severe pains in my chest & back. I called 111 for advice this morning, who ordered an ambulance. I'm awaiting results of chest x-ray, ECG and bloods.
Once I'm back home I'll do a bit of catching up.
Galaxy2012
7 hours ago
So sorry to hear that too Em, sending you my best wishes.
Barrie
7 hours ago
Adding my best wishes to what everyone else has said.
Titchy
7 hours ago
Sorry to read this Em. Keep us informed when you can. xx
maddadof
8 hours ago
Sending lots of big hugs Xx...
Pettal
8 hours ago
Hope you are okay, could be a bit of anxiety and stress ❤️
MickmeDad
8 hours ago
Best Wishes Em hope you are fighting fit again in no time.
Being in AnE can be stressful as it is, so try and relax
Tudiefair
9 hours ago
Hope you’ll be home soon & feeling better.
samandi
9 hours ago
Sending you best wishes for a speedy recovery Em
YogiK
11 hours ago
Best wishes Em, hope you’re better soon. Good you are being thoroughly checked over. Never underestimate the power of stress, you have been through such a lot and your loss is still immense and raw.
Mrs F
11 hours ago
Sorry to hear this Em. As CS said, stress ultimately makes itself known somehow and this is the most likely explanation given what you’ve been through. Hope you are soon back home and feeling better
Lol 63
12 hours ago
Like Choccy said, pretty sure that stress will be a triggering factor for whatever it is.
Best wishes, get better soon.
Elicat💗
12 hours ago
Thinking of you & keeping my fingers crossed they quickly get to the bottom of things. Take care 🩷
Buttercup2
12 hours ago
Sorry to hear this Em, I hope you get well soon, sending best wishes, take care x
Dharma
12 hours ago
Sending warm cuddles and thoughts please take it easy and try not to worry about anything. I know it's easy said then done but we will see you when you're back 🫂 xxx
Little Owl
12 hours ago
Best Wishes, Em. I always thought your last episode was more than stress. It will be good to put your mind at rest. Hope you are home soon.
Val1101
13 hours ago
Thinking of you Em , you are in the best place to be looked after . Hope all is well and you get home soon 😘
Nigel Thomas
13 hours ago
So sorry to hear that, I hope you get well soon, sending best wishes.
AJR
13 hours ago
Em, like Malc_H said, I hope it all turns out well ❤️
Chocolate Spaniel
14 hours ago
Oh Em, I do hope there's nothing wrong. Stress has a funny way of making itself known, and this year has been ultimately stressful for you. At least everything is being checked out which is a good thing.
Thinking of you ❤️
Malc_H
14 hours ago
Sorry to hear that, Em. Hope everything turns out OK.
Beth8it!
15 hours ago
I gather DIYSOS is being scrapped - Nick Knowles was told it was being sidelined, or shelved temporarily due to cuts in expenses at the BBC,and when he pushed for clarification, he was told it was not going to be reinstated. There are a lot of very needy people in the country who have just lost their last hope of having their situation made bearable.
Let's hope one of the other TV stations buys it from the BBC. There is so much free labour and supply of materials and services from companies and tradesmen, I would have thought it was one of the more self-sufficient programmes, but maybe the advance visits, planning applications, Building Control inspections, travelling costs, designers and 'the team' salaries are just too much. Yet they can still send reporters and cameramen out onto oil rigs hundreds of miles out to sea, where nothing is even happening yet... Good choice of priorities there.
maddadof
8 hours ago
Have to agree with you mags..
Yeah!
9 hours ago
For years, Lineker was the BBC's highest-paid presenter, earning more than £1.35million per year before his high-profile exit last May. Ahem.... good point, though. 👍
mags
12 hours ago
I saw a petition about this, I signed but don't know what happened to it. But be fair, when you have REAL needy people that deserve all the money we can send to them then they must come first, Gary Lineker, thinking of you!
Barrie
16 hours ago
Getting old is worse than being a vampire. I CAN see my reflection in the mirror.
Beth8it!
15 hours ago
All of it? Or just down to your waist? If you can see your feet (without bending forwards) you probably don't need to go on a diet, so that's something!