XTC Listening Party

Official website for EXTC- XTC's Terry Chambers and Friends - TOUR DATES TOUR DATES. Official website for EXTC- XTC's Terry Chambers and Friends, a pop, punk, rock group from Swindon

If last night's #XTCmusic listening party whetted your appetite to hear the songs played live, Terry's band, EXTC, are touring this year. 👇
extc.band/tour-dates

That will be 25 Feb 9pm GMT. Hope you can make it!

Cheers, David. Thanks for joining in!

Sheer XTC

Love this image from a Melody Maker article in Jan 78. Almost unrecognisable as the act they'd become. #XTCmusic

Glad to hear it!

I am knackered, haha. Listening and bopping to XTC does that to you. I hope everyone had fun and could forget about things for an hour. #XTCmusic

Thank you, Ray, for changing your work shift so you can join in!

XTC play Middlesex

XTC play Newcastle

Thanks @mealygarage.bsky.social for putting together #XTCmusic over at @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social. Learned quite a bit and its always good to have an excuse to listen to a great album in full. Might have to catch them live...wait, what?

I checked the old Twitter listening parties, and there hadn't been any for XTC. So I thought, well, we need to correct that, pronto.

My pleasure, Mark! The fan festival is too far away and I wanted an excuse to hear some XTC and meet other fans.

Album cover - a wall of text - for XTC's Go 2 album.

And that’s a wrap! Huge thanks to everyone who joined tonight’s #XTCmusic listen‑along. This is the first time I've done anything like this, and you all showed up. Thank you!
We’re back on Wed 25 Feb at 9pm (GMT) for 'Go 2'. Hope you’ll be there! #XTCmusic

A review for the 3D EP and This Is Pop from - of course - Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail. #XTCmusic

Excellent!

I hope everyone is a listener of Mark's fantastic podcast. If not, you know what to do. 🎧

19. INSTANT TUNES - the last Moulding track and last track before the lights get switched on and we're all told to go home and sober up. To my ears, this has a Britpop sound to it, especially the chorus. This track served as the B-side to the Go 2-era single, Are You Receiving Me? #XTCmusic

Well, there's another fun hour coming up next month...

I'm enjoying them a lot, this has been a fun way to spend an hour

Heatwave is my favourite of Colin's songs from this era. The live bootlegs of this song are fantastic too. #XTCmusic

The cover of the 1978 Guilottine compilation album. Shows a red clenched fist with a glitch filter over it, over a dark background.

18. TRAFFIC LIGHT ROCK - the penultimate track, and originally an outtake from the White Music sessions that appeared as a then-unreleased song on the 1978 Guillotine compilation album which featured amongst others The Motors and X-Ray Spex. #XTCmusic

Interesting. I'm still struggling with that one, but I'll grow to love it, no doubt!

I'm glad you have, now. What do you think of them so far?

Agreed. One of my favourite XTC b-sides. Sounds great live too. #XTCmusic

17. HEATWAVE. The last Colin song of the album, and featured as the B-side to This Is Pop, released on the same day as this very album! This has a slight jauntiness to it which I like. Which is your favourite track of Colin's? #XTCmusic

Played on their second Peel session 21/9/77

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Japanese single cover of Statue of Liberty, which features Hang On To The Night as the B-Side.

16. HANG ON TO THE NIGHT The B-side to the Statue of Liberty single. Should it have been a single instead? #XTCmusic

Yeah, I heard that happened. Weird.

She's So Square is a song I always thought, with the odd psych touching up, would have fitted nicely on the Dukes albums

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15. DANCE BAND Apparently, the very first song Colin Moulding wrote. Wiser heads can correct me if not. It was added to the previous two tracks to form the '3D' release, after the Science Friction single was withdrawn and expanded into an EP. #XTCmusic

I adore it, too!

It's certainly flying by!