XTC

[Barton Lee]

I saw XTC opening for The Police in fall of 1980 at the Minneapolis Armory, a horrible venue acoustically. The only XTC song I remember from that show was Helicopter. English Settlement was for me the first really great album, with either Oranges and Lemons or Nonsuch as my favorite(s). Andy may have been the main writer but I like Colin's compositions just as much, along with his being a brilliant bass player.

I play in a band that covers Mayor of Simpleton (Andy Partridge actually wrote the bass part to that one). My wife and I raised our boy, now 33 and a musician in LA, to know and love XTC. According to him, no one else his age knows or cares about them. Sad.

XTC should've been much bigger than they were.

 

[Bohumil Prst]

Another shout for XTC and, given that this is a bass forum, for the creative and melodic playing of Colin Moulding (hence my avatar!). They were often a 'band out of time'; in that they had a particular approach that was (mercifully) not wedded to specific musical trends, but rather had a kind of 'style of styles'. The idea invokes the Beatles, of course, but also things like early Genesis or even Physical-Graffiti era LZ. P. Aaron, the Ann Arbor gig (79 or 80) at the Michigan Theatre is floating around online. Pretty tight!

 

[Bohumil Prst]

I saw XTC opening for The Police in fall of 1980 at the Minneapolis Armory, a horrible venue acoustically. The only XTC song I remember from that show was Helicopter. English Settlement was for me the first really great album, with either Oranges and Lemons or Nonsuch as my favorite(s). Andy may have been the main writer but I like Colin's compositions just as much, along with his being a brilliant bass player.

I play in a band that covers Mayor of Simpleton (Andy Partridge actually wrote the bass part to that one). My wife and I raised our boy, now 33 and a musician in LA, to know and love XTC. According to him, no one else his age knows or cares about them. Sad.

XTC should've been much bigger than they were.

My teenager daughter listens to XTC, probably more than any other band. Proud father…!

 

[Bohumil Prst]

I saw XTC opening for The Police in fall of 1980 at the Minneapolis Armory, a horrible venue acoustically. The only XTC song I remember from that show was Helicopter. English Settlement was for me the first really great album, with either Oranges and Lemons or Nonsuch as my favorite(s). Andy may have been the main writer but I like Colin's compositions just as much, along with his being a brilliant bass player.

I play in a band that covers Mayor of Simpleton (Andy Partridge actually wrote the bass part to that one). My wife and I raised our boy, now 33 and a musician in LA, to know and love XTC. According to him, no one else his age knows or cares about them. Sad.

XTC should've been much bigger than they were.

Just down the road in Ann Arbor:

 

[ElectroVibe]