It is now on showtime here in 'Merica.
 
It is really worth watching if you are an XTC fan, and even if you are not.  Andy Partridge is a hoot.
 
Jeff

I really want to see that. Love XTC, and have a little bit of history with them (which I have bored everyone with many times here )

jamesg1213
I really want to see that. Love XTC, and have a little bit of history with them (which I have bored everyone with many times here )

It never bores me mate.
 
 
 
 
 
Although the incident does seem to have slipped my mind ....
 
 
 
 
 
.... would you care to remind me 

Me too...do tell.. always up for XTC stories.
 
JR

Well...
 
XTC hail from Swindon, and I went to art college there. The band I was in around 1979/82 rehearsed and recorded in Tudor Studios (long gone). XTC used the same place to rehearse for their 'English Settlement' tour. We found their gear all set up one Sunday afternoon and just thought 'why not?'...they weren't at all happy when they found out 
 
We were on quite good terms with Partridge though and he borrowed my Marshall amp & cab for a Swindon gig when his developed a fault. You can also see it in the 'XTC at The Manor' documentary at one point.
 
We borrowed his DX7 for a session one time, although he charged us  £10 for that as I recall...
 
There's still a connection, as the singer in our band was Tim Wilkinson, my life-long friend, who designed both album covers for Tin Spirits, one of Dave Gregory's current bands.

 

 
 

Cool stories...they roast Swindon pretty good in the rockumentary (with love of course)
 
Wasn't Swindon where the Office was supposed to be situated ?
 
JR

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Cool stories...they roast Swindon pretty good in the rockumentary (with love of course)
 
Wasn't Swindon where the Office was supposed to be situated ?
 
JR

 
The Office was set in Slough, but they merged the Swindon branch into it. 

i want to see partridge in a cage match with rundgren.

I just read something about Colin Moulding and he said he had done a bunch of sessions with Billy Sherwood from Yes and I had a brief thought tangent . . . what if Colin was the new Yes bass player?  Colin playing Heart of the Sunrise on fretless!
 
It is amazing that XTC haven't done any new music for so long but I always have a couple different albums on my phone and the music is all still as refreshing and fun as when they came out.