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  • Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge working on new LP that’ll be ‘a cheese fondue for the slag heaps’

    Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge working on new LP that’ll be ‘a cheese fondue for the slag heaps’

    • 27 October 2019
    • Album News
    • 0 comments

    On the heels of their just-released Planet England EP, master songwriters Andy Partridge of XTC and Robyn Hitchcock are back at work on new music, according to a post by Hitchcock on Instagram, and are hoping this project won’t take a dozen years like the last one. Details right here.

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  • XTC’s Dukes of Stratosphear albums freshly remixed for new ‘Psurroundabout Ride’ set

    XTC’s Dukes of Stratosphear albums freshly remixed for new ‘Psurroundabout Ride’ set

    • 29 August 2019
    • Reissues
    • 2 comments

    The complete works of The Dukes of Stratosphear — XTC’s short-lived psychedelic side project — have been remixed in stereo and 5.1 Surround by Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson and will be reissued in October as a CD/Blu-ray set called Psurroundabout Ride. Get the full details right here.

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  • Robyn Hitchcock and XTC’s Andy Partridge to release EP that’s 13 years in the making

    Robyn Hitchcock and XTC’s Andy Partridge to release EP that’s 13 years in the making

    • 4 August 2019
    • Album News
    • 4 comments

    Songwriting greats Andy Partridge of XTC and Robyn Hitchcock next month will release a four-song EP that Hitchcock says “began in his shed in Swindon in 2006” and is now finished after the two re-teamed last year to write one final song. Full details on the project right here.

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  • Andy Partridge is tired of being woken up by ‘wankers’ singing ‘Making Plans for Nigel’

    Andy Partridge is tired of being woken up by ‘wankers’ singing ‘Making Plans for Nigel’

    • 14 October 2018
    • Beefs
    • 14 comments

    Former XTC frontman Andy Partridge took to Twitter this morning to declare his irritation with fans — or, rather, “wankers” — waking him up at night by chanting the lyrics to “Making Plans for Nigel,” the very popular 1979 single for the band that he neither wrote nor sings. Instead, Partridge says they should visit Colin Moulding.

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  • New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joe Strummer, Pixies, House of Love, Nick Cave, XTC

    New releases: Echo & The Bunnymen, Joe Strummer, Pixies, House of Love, Nick Cave, XTC

    • 1 October 2018
    • New Releases
    • 0 comments

    Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. (Since we missed last week’s round-up, this includes titles that came out this past Friday, too.)

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  • XTC’s Andy Partridge covers Pink Floyd, Bonzo Dog Band on new 10-inch EP

    XTC’s Andy Partridge covers Pink Floyd, Bonzo Dog Band on new 10-inch EP

    • 26 May 2018
    • Single News
    • 1 comment

    XTC’s Andy Partridge will release new music next month, having christened his newly upgraded studio by recording a pair of his favorite songs: the Syd Barrett-penned early Pink Floyd single “Apples and Oranges” and the Bonzo Dog Band’s Humanoid Boogie, written by Neil Innes. Full details right here.

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  • John Dent, engineer who worked with Love and Rockets, U2, The Police and XTC, 1954-2017

    John Dent, engineer who worked with Love and Rockets, U2, The Police and XTC, 1954-2017

    • 3 January 2018
    • Obits
    • 3 comments

    John Dent, the mastering engineer who worked on albums by U2, Love and Rockets, The Stranglers, Bob Marley and others, and is credited by Andy Partridge with figuring out XTC’s Skylarking suffered for years from “reversed polarity,” died of cancer last week at 63.

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  • Watch: Showtime debuts new trailer for upcoming XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’

    Watch: Showtime debuts new trailer for upcoming XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’

    • 3 January 2018
    • Film, Video
    • 0 comments

    The Showtime cable network has released a trailer ahead of its airing of the new XTC  documentary “This Is Pop,” a 30-second tease that’s a fraction as long as the nearly 6 1/2-minute trailer that leaked earlier this year. Still, for fans in the U.S., where the doc has yet to air, it’s a tantalizing glimpse of the film that will screen Jan. 11.

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  • XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’ to receive U.S. premiere on Showtime in January

    XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’ to receive U.S. premiere on Showtime in January

    • 11 December 2017
    • Film
    • 1 comment

    American fans clamoring to lay their eyes on the new XTC  documentary “This Is Pop” — which premiered on UK television in October — finally will get their chance in January when the 75-minute film has its U.S. premiere on the Showtime cable-television network. The program will be available on demand, too.

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  • XTC’s ‘Black Sea’ audiophile reissue with new 5.1, stereo mixes due out in November

    XTC’s ‘Black Sea’ audiophile reissue with new 5.1, stereo mixes due out in November

    • 26 September 2017
    • Reissues
    • 1 comment

    The audiophile reissue of XTC’s fourth album, 1980’s Black Sea, is due out Nov. 10, and will include new 5.1 Surround, stereo and and high-resolution stereo mixes of the record by Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson, plus demos, instrumentals and music videos. More details here.

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  • XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’ to air on UK’s Sky Arts in October — watch 6-minute trailer

    XTC documentary ‘This Is Pop’ to air on UK’s Sky Arts in October — watch 6-minute trailer

    • 1 September 2017
    • TV, Video
    • 8 comments

    The highly anticipated XTC  documentary “This Is Pop” — the subject of a petition earlier this year to convince the BBC to air it after the network allegedly passed on the program — will, in fact, be seen on TV in the UK this fall: Sky Arts is set to broadcast the film in October. Watch the full trailer here.

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