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XTC were a new wave rock band from Swindon, England, led by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding and active between 1976 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and "Senses Working Overtime" (1982).
XTC were a performing and touring band up until 1982. For the remaining twenty-three years of XTC's existence they were a studio-based project involving session players around a nucleus of Partridge, Moulding and Dave Gregory.
First coming together in 1972, Colin Moulding (bass & vocals) and Terry Chambers (drums) asked Andy Partridge (guitars & vocals) to join their new band and went through many band names (including The Helium Kidz and Star Park) over the next five years. As the Helium Kidz, they were featured in a small NME article as an up-and-coming band from Swindon. Drawing influence from the New York Dolls, particularly the "Jetboy" single, and the emerging New York punk scene, they played glam rock with homemade costumes and slowly built up a following. Keyboard player Barry Andrews joined in 1976, and the band finally settled on a name: XTC.
Actors: Scott Daves (actor), Shannon Ballard (actor), Shane Ballard (actor), Ric Drasin (actor), Aaron Hasson (actor), Casey Lauer (actor), Robert Courteney (actor), Jammer (actor), Slammer (actor), La Trice Harper (actress), Lynette Fame (actress), Shane Drasin (actor), Deven MacNair (actress), Nora Miller (actress), Clint Lopaty (actor),
Genres: ,1. Runaways 0:00 2. Ball and Chain 4:34 3. Senses Working Overtime 9:07 4. Jason and the Argonauts 13:58 5. No Thugs In Our House 20:05 6. Yacht Dance 25:25 7. All of a Sudden (It's Too Late) 29:11 8. Melt the Guns 34:33 9. Leisure 41:07 10. It's Nearly Africa 46:10 11. Knuckle Down 50:05 12. Fly on the Wall 54:34 13. Down in the Cockpit 57:53 14. English Roundabout 1:03:20 15. Snowman 1:07:20
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Classic "XTC" track "Senses Working Overtime" from 1982...
Reuploaded after audio on original video was removed. 1. Making Plans for Nigel 0:00 2. Helicopter 4:13 3. Day In Day Out 8:08 4. When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty 11:16 5. Ten Feet Tall 14:38 6. Roads Girdle the Globe 17:55 7. Real By Reel 22:46 8. Millions 26:33 9. That is the Way 32:13 10. Outside World 35:10 11. Scissor Man 37:51 12. Complicated Game 41:51 13. Life Begins at the Hop 46:55 14. Chain of Command 50:44 15. Limelight 53:18
1. Summer's Cauldron 0:00 2. Grass 3:18 3. The Meeting Place 6:23 4. That's Really Super, Supergirl 9:35 5. Ballet for a Rainy Day 12:56 6. 1000 Umbrellas 16:02 7. Season Cycle 19:31 8. Earn Enough for Us 22:51 9. Big Day 25:47 10. Another Satellite 29:18 11. Mermaid Smiled 33:34 12. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul 36:00 13. Dear God 39:23 14. Dying 42:57 15. Sacrificial Bonfire 45:24
1. Respectable Street 0:00 2. Generals and Majors 3:38 3. Living Through Another Cuba 7:42 4. Love At First Sight 12:26 5. Rocket from a Bottle 15:34 6. No Language in Our Lungs 19:04 7. Towers of London 23:57 8. Paper and Iron (Notes and Coins) 29:22 9. Burning With Optimism's Flames 33:39 10. Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) 37:55 11. Travels in Nihilon 41:52 12. Smokeless Zone 48:56 13. Don't Lose Your Temper 52:47 14. The Somnambulist 55:20
Artist: XTC Title: Senses Working Overtime Broadcast date: 20-2-1982 TV program: TopPop Video rights: AVRO http://www.avro.tv gives you easy access to unique footage. . TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more. Watch our great music videos ❯ https://goo.gl/1mU5Ns More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ https://goo.gl/GggHDi More info on Wikipedia ❯ http://goo.gl/RO1s74 Great images ❯ https://goo.gl/HuIwTy PLEASE...
1. Garden of Earthly Delights 0:00 2. The Mayor of Simpleton 5:03 3. King for a Day 9:02 4. Here Comes President Kill Again 12:39 5. The Loving 16:14 6. Poor Skeleton Steps Out 20:26 7. One of the Millions 23:59 8. Scarecrow People 28:36 9. Merely a Man 32:50 10. Cynical Days 36:17 11. Across This Antheap 39:34 12. Hold Me My Daddy 44:26 13. Pink Thing 48:14 14. Miniature Sun 52:03 15. Chalkhills and Children 56:00
Respectable Street Towers of London Runaways Jason and the Argonauts Burning With Optimism's Flames Snowman Ball And Chain Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) No Thugs In Our House Senses Working Overtime Making Plans For Nigel Living Through Another Cuba Generals and Majors Real By Reel Life Begins At The Hop
XTC Live at Open Theatre,Berg en Bosch Apeldoorn ,8 August 1980 Filmed for VARA's Popkaravaan, a series of gigs organized and sponsored by the dutch broadcasting company VARA. Transmitted on 9 August 1980. Set list : Real by Reel 00:29 Generals and Majors 04:09 Respectable Streets 08:14 Love at First Sight 11:10 Helicopter 14:05 Making Plans for Nigels 17:30
XTC performing live at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington DC on January 24, 1980. Setlist: Intro Beatown Real By Reel When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty Life Begins At The Hop The Rhythm Meccanic Dancing Roads Girdle the Globe Ten Feet Tall Helicopter This is Pop? Battery Brides Instant Tunes Crowded Room Complicated Game Making Plans for Nigel Radios in Motion Are You Receiving Me? Outside World Dance Band Statue of Liberty
Le Palace ,Paris,France 18 March 1982 Broadcast live on Les enfants du rock on Antenne 2 TV Andy walks off the stage during the first number "Respectble Street".The rest of the band soon stop playing and follow him. It's announced that Andy is not feeling well. The incident was immortalised on a 17 minute documentary broadcast in France on a Saturday TV show Megahertz on TF1. It's also included footage of the soundcheck and a interview with Andy at the theatre caretaker's office before the concert.
[Stereo feed] Two different broadcasts taken from the same taping date for US airing are combined here, for your viewing pleasure. The trio perform acoustically, and without the hindrance of "house bands" to interfere with the group's performances. Originally broadcast on 2 different programs on cable television, as you may recognize the hosts for those short-lived experiments [Carrot-Top & Weird Al].
XTC - Live On KROQ - FM - Pasadena, CA. 29 May 1989 Oranges & Lemons North American promotional tour (aka acoustical Oranges & Lemons radio station tour)15 -31 May 1989 A North American radio session tour, taken with three acoustic guitars on their shoulders and at their expense. Set list - KROQ - FM - Pasadena, CA. 29 May 1989 1- Intro Dialogue 2- Scarecrow People 3-Dialogue 4-Mayor Of Simpleton 5-Dialogue 6-Senses Working Overtime/Grass/Love on Farmboy's Wages 7-Dialogue 8-Blue Beret 9-Dialog 10-Geat Fire/Dear God/Big Day 11-Dialogue 12-King for A Day 13-Dialogue 14-One of the Millions/Pink Thing/Garden of Earthly Delights 15-Dialogue
I do not own anything here. Just these kind of upload ext(c)asy... 001 - English roundabout 0:00 002 - Scissor man 3:57 003 - Mayor of simpleton 7:56 004 - Great fire 11:53 005 - When you're near me I have difficulty 15:39 006 - Love on a farmboy's wages 19:01 007 - Fly on the wall 23:00 008 - Life begins at the hop 26:16 009 - Melt the guns 30:04 010 - Senses working overtime 36:36 011 - Respectable Street 41:27 012 - Beating of hearts 45:04 013 - Yacht dance 49:00 014 - Ball and chain 52:55 015 - Helicopter 57:25 016 - Stupidly happy 01:01:20 017 - Down in the cockpit 01:05:32 018 - Are you receiving me 01:10:59 019 - Knuckle down 01:14:03 020 - Millions 01:18:30 021 - One of the millions 01:24:10 022 - Poor skeleton 01:28:44 023 - No thugs in our house 01:32:12 024 - Ten feet tall 01:3...
1. River of Orchids 0:00 2. I'd Like That 5:53 3. Easter Theatre 9:44 4. Knights in Shining Karma 14:21 5. Frivolous Tonight 18:00 6. Greenman 21:10 7. Your Dictionary 27:29 8. Fruit Nut 30:43 9. I Can't Own Her 33:45 10. Harvest Festival 39:11 11. The Last Balloon 43:26
1. The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead 0:00 2. My Bird Performs 5:02 3. Dear Madam Barnum 8:53 4. Humble Daisy 11:42 5. The Smartest Monkeys 15:19 6. The Disappointed 19:37 7. Holly Up on Poppy 23:00 8. Crocodile 26:05 9. Rook 30:02 10. Omnibus 33:49 11. That Wave 37:10 12. Then She Appeared 40:44 13. War Dance 44:36 14. Wrapped In Grey 47:58 15. The Ugly Underneath 51:45 16. Bungalow 55:36 17. Books Are Burning 58:25
1. Wake Up 0:00 2. All You Pretty Girls 4:40 3. Shake You Donkey Up 8:21 4. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her 12:41 5. This World Over 16:32 6. The Everyday Story of Smalltown 22:10 7. I Bought Myself a Liarbird 26:02 8. Reign of Blows 28:53 9. You're the Wish You Are I Had 32:24 10. I Remember the Sun 35:38 11. Train Running Low on Soul Coal 38:49 12. Red Brick Dream 44:08 13. Washaway 46:11 14. Blue Overall 49:13
An exclusive interview between XTC and Paul Wilde recorded in Swindon on Saturday 12th August 1989. © 1989 Paul Wilde All rights reserved to the legitimate owner How it came be... During February 1989 I was sat at home listening to the musical genius of XTC with their latest vinyl offering. It crossed my mind that who else in this world over' was feeling the same as I did about the fab three from Swindon? Armed with £50.00 I decided to find out , thus the first ever XTC Convention was contrived. The money secured the venue at 'The Trafford Hall Hotel',Old Trafford in Manchester and the date was set for Saturday 16th September 1989. With the help of Limelight and The Little Express , who I can't thank enough, applications flooded in from all over the globe. It was during July that I was...
See XTC's records inside the Archive here: http://johnpeelarchive.com/albums/recordbox.html?jpID=X028 Produced by Eye Film and Television for the John Peel Centre for the Creative Arts http://www.eyefilmandtv.co.uk/ http://johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk/ http://johnpeelarchive.com/
Andy Partridge of XTC chats and picks fave songs with Alan Thompson . Broadcasting date 03/08/2014 on BBC RADIO WALES with Alan Thompson. Thanks to Steve Warren for helping me.
Andy Partridge interview London Calling 25 November 1984 London Calling on the Music Box cable TV channel shows Andy having a chat with Steve Blacknell in the streets of London.
Subscribe to Cherry Red Records: http://bit.ly/CRSubscribe Dave talks about his life; his long career as a member of XTC and his latest projects, Tin Spirits and Big Big Train
From a promotional record issued by Geffen at the time of the release of XTC’s Skylarking LP in October 1986. Featuring track-by-track commentary by Andy Partridge. I edited out the songs. (Part 2 of the interview is here: https://youtu.be/SvoGpoxZuqs) Produced, recorded, mixed and narrated by George Gimarc. Andy was interviewed at his home in Swindon, UK.
By: http://www.flabber.nl/ A while ago our reporter went to Thunderdome and had a good time. A lot of people asked for a translation, so we made one! A unique inside look into the Dutch gabber scene. Source: http://www.flabber.nl/series/buitenbeeld
This is the lost interview with XTC Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding interviwed by the great Kevin Greening
The legendary frontman of new wave group XTC reminisces about the 1963 sci-fi puppet series "Space Patrol", created by Roberta Leigh.
(andy partridge)
Programmes of violence,
As entertainment,
Brings the disease into your room.
We know the germ,
Which is man-made in metal,
Is really a key to your own tomb.
Prevention is better than cure,
Bad apples affecting the pure,
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.
Children will want them,
Mothers supply them,
As long as your killers are heroes.
And all the media
Will fiddle while rome burns,
Acting like modern-time neros.
Prevention is better than cure,
Bad apples affecting the pure,
You'll gather your senses I'm sure
Then agree to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.
I'm speaking to the justice league of america.
The u s of a,
Hey you,
Yes you in particular!
When it comes to the judgement day and you're standing at the gates with your weaponry,
You dead go down on one knee,
Clasp your hands in prayer and start quoting me,
'cos we say...
Our father we've managed to contain the epidemic in one place, now,
Let's hope they shoot themselves instead of others,
Help to civilize the race now.
We've trapped the cause of the plague,
In the land of the free and the home of the brave.
If we listen quietly we can hear them shooting from grave to grave.
You ought to,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more to fire them.
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
Melt the guns,
And never more desire them.