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XTC

October 2022

  • Andy Partridge, for F&M

    ‘My dream had died’: XTC’s Andy Partridge on mental illness, battling the music industry and losing his muse

    Forty years ago, XTC were riding high when Partridge had a breakdown and quit touring. As he releases a new archival EP, he discusses the troubled childhood and addiction that triggered it, finding refuge in the studio – and why he’s stopped writing songs

April 2020

  • Guts and grime … the guitar-led XTC, (from left) Terry Chambers, Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory.

    How we made
    How we made: XTC on Making Plans for Nigel

    ‘British Steel responded by rounding up a lot of workers called Nigel and getting them to say their jobs were actually great’

May 2018

  • Run DMC in concert

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: songs about pragmatism

    Among artists picked for seeing things as they are come Run DMC, Van Morrison, Nina Simone and Beyoncé

February 2016

  • field music portrait

    Field Music: Commontime review – funky, but with feeling

    The Sunderland temper their usual spiky fare with post-fatherhood wistfulness on album No 6

December 2015

  • The band XTC

    The end is Nige: why the name Nigel is rightly doomed

    Nigel Kendall
    It could be the Farage factor, or the XTC song. But whoever’s to blame, it seems nothing can now save my accursed tribe from the inevitable

January 2013

  • XTC

    From Rock's Backpages
    XTC: 'Is there a place in rock'n'roll for a Princess Anne lookalike?' – a classic feature from the vaults

    XTC's first album came out 35 years ago this month – and they were already squabbling. Catch up with the quarrels in this piece from Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism

June 2011

  • Martin Rushent at his home in Reading, Berkshire

    Prominent producer Martin Rushent dies aged 63

    Tributes pour in for award-winning producer who worked with the Stranglers, the Human League and T.Rex

April 2010

  • Kinks album cover village green preservation

    The sound of the suburbs and literary tradition

    The Kinks, the Jam, Blur, Arctic Monkeys – all sang about the drabness and conformity of small towns and their 'respectable streets'. For Wilmslow boy John Harris, these lyrics are part of a tradition that takes in Orwell, Larkin and Betjeman

November 2007

  • 1000 albums to hear before you die
    Artists beginning with X

    From X to XTC

February 2007

  • Happy hour

    Chris Salmon finds XTC's Andy Partridge spreading a little online joy. Plus music to buy cars to.

April 2004

  • Home entertainment
    Above average Andy

    For Andy Partridge of XTC, contentment is found in Everywheresville, aka Swindon, listening to the best psychedelic nonsense from the 1960s.

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