Random/suprising Xtc Occurrences, Mentions Etc. Options

[carwash castened...]

i have it on good authority that macca owns a copy of 'dog eared moonlight' which is both wierd and wonderful - imagine that... a fab putting on a cd of my songs...too strange...

[hummingbird]

That's great! The fan in you must be thrilled...the table's turned.
It's nice to know as well,that macca enjoys the bounty of APE.

[Omnibus]

Exciting new! I'm sure he loves your album (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

[Nowhereman437]

On a website called Black cat bone Skylarking has beeen voted 31st best album of the 80s. The top 30 are still to come.

[Jeff Truzzi]

i have it on good authority that macca owns a copy of 'dog eared moonlight' which is both wierd and wonderful - imagine that... a fab putting on a cd of my songs...too strange...

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[xTC]

Rick Buckler (The Jam) mentions XTC's Drums & Wires as "essential listening" in Dec 2005's edition of Rhythm magazine! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Nowhereman437]

This is a John Leckie quote from an article about the Stone roses song Fools gold

"I've worked on a lot of projects there," states Leckie, "including a psychedelic album named Chips From The Chocolate Fireball that I produced in 1987 for the Dukes of Stratosphear. This was XTC under a different persona, and the Roses told me that record was the main reason for them asking to work with me.

[Andy Partridge]

While we were working on PSONIC PSUNSPOT John got a package from another band who wanted him to produce them because of 25 O'CLOCK,they were the Shamen.

[Nowhereman437]

More on the Dukes influence on TSR.

Ian Brown from the Guardian Soundtrack of my life feature.

WHEN WE WERE WORKING ON OUR DEBUT Dukes of Stratosphear 25 O'Clock (1985)

Mani had a record by Dukes of Stratosphear, the alter egos of XTC. We thought whoever had produced it [John Leckie] was a genius because he'd made a pastiche of 60s psychedelia and we wanted to make a kind of psychedelic album with state-of-the-art beats. We didn't necessarily like it; we didn't play it out of enjoyment – well, I didn't, Mani did. But I understood from the way it was recorded that the guy who had recorded this could definitely work with us. [John Leckie then produced the first Stone Roses album.] For me, that was more of an academic thing than a record I loved. There was no music around that I loved in the 80s. That was why we started the Roses.

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I didn't really see Ian liking XTC/DOS so that doesn't surprise me.

[Nowhereman437]

N.M.E 100 greatest albums yyou've never heard

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65.XTC <white music >1978

[Nowhereman437]

On a Fall fansite forum there's a thread about local celebrities-

Liam said-
Andy Partridge. Not sure if any of the other XTC lads still live in Swindon.

and someone replied-

Is Make Music still there? They used to rehearse above it back in the early 80's. I can remember being shown upstairs to try a distortion pedal out and they were playing in the next room. I was thrilled.

[Nowhereman437]

Today on Steve Lamaq's National anthme feature whereby people recomend songs to tie in with a news story. Today they wanted suggestions for songs about the story the Statue of liberty was being shut down for repairs. I was sure they'd go for SOL but they didn't unlike See post #1 on this thread.

[Jeff Truzzi]

Producer Michael Beinhorn (Soundgarden, Hole, Korn) in Tape Op Magazine:

"Everyone in my high school was into prog, myself included. Then...around 79 or 80...we were listening to a lot of Eno, punk, Kraftwerk, Miles Davis, and all the nascent new wave bands like Magazine & XTC."

[Brian]

Yesterday, on the Sirius radio station called "First Wave," the DJ, Madison, played "King For a Day" in honor of Colin Moulding's birthday. She then added that:
"Colin gave up music a few years ago, but I have it from a reliable source that Colin has recently been sending demos to Andy Partridge."

[rockpants]

I went to the Pacific Nation Exhibition in Vancouver today. In the Pacific Coliseum, there was an art project this guy did that was supposed to be a tribute to album covers using a medium called "smash art". It kinda was but it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. Basically, this guy cut a specific shape out of the middle of the cover and put the theme of the collage in its place, sometimes with the middle of another album's cover. Drums and Wires - the outside piece - was used in a Russian PR poster theme, and the middle piece was found in another collage that incorporated album art from Spanish artists' records. The occasional full album cover was used, rowed along the top, sometimes in the middle, and columned down the sides (about 3 times smaller than the cutout cover pieces) and I spotted an intact Psonic Psunspot in, oddly, an animal-themed collage.

If I can upload the pictures I took on my phone tomorrow, I'll do so.

Edit: Phone uncooperative. Not that it was much to see anyway. But it was neat.

This post has been edited by rockpants: Aug 28 2011, 10:47 PM

[Nowhereman437]

I was just listening to Elton John's song Grimsby and thought i wonder if there's any songs about Scunthorpe, a town very close to my heart on account of it's where a woman I'm besotted with comes from. So I looked Scunthorpe up on Spotify and sure enough there was a song called Scunthorpe by a gropu I'd never heard of called The Cleaners of Venus. I looked them up on wiki and read that their mainman Martin Newell has had an album produced by...Andy Partridge!! I really don't know if I can bear to hear it though. It's probably along the lines of Scunthorpe is a shithole or all the girls in Scunthorpe walk around with mattresses on their backs.
Edit-I've just listened to it. It's not a song and doesn't even mention Scunny. It's just somone telling a story about Martin Newell pissing in some cans of beer while driving down the M1.

This post has been edited by Nowhereman437: Sep 2 2011, 03:03 PM

[Bimble]

I was just listening to Elton John's song Grimsby and thought i wonder if there's any songs about Scunthorpe, a town very close to my heart on account of it's where a woman I'm besotted with comes from. So I looked Scunthorpe up on Spotify and sure enough there was a song called Scunthorpe by a gropu I'd never heard of called The Cleaners of Venus. I looked them up on wiki and read that their mainman Martin Newell has had an album produced by...Andy Partridge!! I really don't know if I can bear to hear it though. It's probably along the lines of Scunthorpe is a shithole or all the girls in Scunthorpe walk around with mattresses on their backs.
Edit-I've just listened to it. It's not a song and doesn't even mention Scunny. It's just somone telling a story about Martin Newell pissing in some cans of beer while driving down the M1.

Well. it's a toss-up between who put the bomp in the bomp-a-bomp-a-bomp and who put the cunt in Scunthorpe for me.......

Is it still appropriate to get one's coat?

This post has been edited by Bimble: Sep 2 2011, 06:50 PM

[donavan]

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[Nowhereman437]

I'm sure the whistlingy sound from G&M has just been used on the back track to an advert for a BBC programme

[Nowhereman437]

Someone on my timeline has just tweeted-As a teenager growing up in Wiltshire, I was inordinately proud of XTC . And here's the genius that is ONLY BLOODY ANDY PARTRIDGE: @xtcfans