Tony Fox the drummer with The Negativz

Hi John,

The site brought back a lot of memories for me. Cargo was the very first studio I ever recorded in. The band was The Negativz. Our then manager Maurice Kendal (formerly of The Silver Screen Girls) insisted we record there and put up the money for us This would have been around 1983). The intention was to release a single but that never transpired. Arguments about money killed off our relationship with Kendall (though I remained friends for a long time after) and the promised single failed to appear.

We initially recorded 7 tracks and then narrrowed that down to 3 tracks which we re – recorded, again at Cargo with yergoodself at the controls again. We were young and lacked any experience or manners of any kind, and you tolerated our arsing about seemingly happily. I hope we didn’t piss you off too much.

I stayed with The Negativz until we broke up around 1984. It was an off the cuff decision at a rehearsal. I had noted how bands often became legends once they split. So we did. We sort of became local legends around Leeds and Bradford but that was our lot.

It would be nice to have our name amongst all the other great bands who recorded at Cargo, one last little claim to fame, a tenuous connection with some of the most memorable names in punk/post punk.

All the best

Tony Fox (Foxy, The Negativz Drummer)