For the "Poindexter..." set -

(Well, assuming you are not already aware...)

DaveA wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:58 pm See also, Old Grey Whistle Test. The band had it down.

Yup. I have the Whistle Test box set and this is great.

I love that performance so much.

A coworker with occasionally decent taste said she "saw XTC in Chicago a few months back and it was great!". Obviously that's not correct, but I'm guessing she was referring to this:

https://www.extc.co.uk/previousshows/

Good for Terry Chambers I guess. He was underrated and kind of got screwed when Partridge decided for them to be a studio band.

Adam_I_III wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:31 pm A friend's dad was a very close, life-long friend of AP. It was pretty clear that Partridge has challenges that most of us don't in terms of how he deals with the world. He also is a brilliant, unique writer.

Plus (like Rick Davies and me) they come from Swindon.

Years and years ago I read an interview where Partridge and Moulding were venting about the difficulty they had with Terry Chambers. One of their gripes was that, on returning from a world tour, Chambers got all misty-eyed about Swindon, saying that there was nowhere in the world as beautiful.

Definitely Not Crap. Andy is a twat but who cares, the music is brilliant.

Here's their last live performance from 1992 with the great Dave Mattacks from Fairport on drums. Andy plays a pretty stunning solo over the closing credits.

Dudley wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 8:31 am

Adam_I_III wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:31 pm A friend's dad was a very close, life-long friend of AP. It was pretty clear that Partridge has challenges that most of us don't in terms of how he deals with the world. He also is a brilliant, unique writer.

Plus (like Rick Davies and me) they come from Swindon.

Years and years ago I read an interview where Partridge and Moulding were venting about the difficulty they had with Terry Chambers. One of their gripes was that, on returning from a world tour, Chambers got all misty-eyed about Swindon, saying that there was nowhere in the world as beautiful.

Ha! But who could resist the peerless charms of the derelict train yards, the milky-translucence of a chlorine and piss filled biodome, and an uncatalogueably vast number of Diana Dors murals?

In the spring.

Not Crap. Ever.

Remember hearing "Nigel" decades ago and thinking "There's no way a late 70's/early 80's song can be so neat"