XTC Live - Théâtre de l'Empire - Paris - 18/11/1979 0:53 - Real by reel 4:32 - Helicopter 8:18 - Making plans for Nigel 12:25 - This is pop 15:01 - Are you receiving me? 18:15 - Statue of Liberty
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@davelafave6678 Жыл бұрын
Here we are in 2023 and I am revisiting ALL of XTC. This. Is. EVERYTHING. Thanks for uploading.
@mightyV444 Жыл бұрын
I'd known them by name already over 40 years ago but first heard 'Nigel' only in the mid 90's, and a live version of 'Statue Of Liberty' another 10 years later. But it was only about two years ago when their name kept popping up *a lot* around me and I understood that as a nudge to do a first proper deep-dive into their catalague - which of course I then didn't regret one bit 😁 I had to take a break from them eventually, though; There'd just been a little *too* much for me to catch up on 😅 But I'm back on that XTC trip now! 😁👍
@JohnWilliamsFromBluff Жыл бұрын
Same! Came across a doco about them randomly (thank YT algo!) and realied I'd forgotten how awesome they were. Now, like you, re-listening to all their material. Life is good.
@andrewp.schubert24179 ай бұрын
Me too. I've been a fan since Drums and Wires.
@mackabeats Жыл бұрын
I'm on another XTC run...happens evey few years, I suddenly find myself down the XTC rabbit hole. So good.
@filmlikefilms Жыл бұрын
Me too. It has been a recent exploration of what the XTC oeuvre is available online and it's kind of amazing to see anything live by this almost mythic band. I saw them in SF at the Old Waldorf and I'll never forget it because they chided us in seating to get up and kick it out, which we did, much to the management's chagrin. Super fun absolutely brilliant musicians with classic British working class piss and chips, not unlike The Who or The Clash, or yeah, The Beatles.
@timhutton6802 Жыл бұрын
Me too! Must be something in the air...
@DaddyWarbucksunlimited Жыл бұрын
@@filmlikefilms❤❤
@windyhillbomber10 ай бұрын
Yep, just arrived at the hole once again. Enjoy
@petecampbell6117 Жыл бұрын
XTC were such an anomaly in the Punk/New Wave scene. Superb players often didn't catch on to the rest of the creative aesthetic that was fundamental to the movement. XTC could play, write great songs and plus they had a sensibility that made them both extremely of their time as well as timeless. What a band!
@TheRealZenman8 ай бұрын
There is still nothing like XTC. I'm a 75 year old American and have been a fan since 1979 and still am. Such original musical ideas and precise playing that few bands ever matched..maybe Talking Heads...and they kept being brilliant through the rest of their career, right up to Apple Venus and Wasp Star, and very especially the Dukes of Stratosphere. Just amazing!
@avodiablackheart61313 ай бұрын
O yeah man. Im 70 & right with you. Same years & all. These guys were Just Amazing. Screaming Talent. Were still cool man, Even @our age.... 6/14/24... Illinois~
@trippcox26413 ай бұрын
Dukes is out of this world🙌🤘🙌
@sammencia7945Ай бұрын
That AOR played Nigel in 1979 in USA is a miracle. That's how I heard them first. Went to record store. Saw that cover. Bought it. Next week WM and GTo. Take Away too expensive. Import. Black Sea the following year.
@slinkycrown87575 жыл бұрын
Bought white music and drums and wire records from flea market yesterday and the guy told me the story of how he met these guys in a pub back in late 70s. I’m 18 and I love these guys.
@garden25714 жыл бұрын
Nice to see im not their only young fan! I'm 18 :)
@dirtydave26913 жыл бұрын
@@garden2571 Pretty cool. I started listening to them when I was 18. Now I am 55. They are just great.
@chuckabbate59243 жыл бұрын
You 18 years olds have stumbled onto a treasure trove...enjoy!
@CONSIDERABLYMORE13 жыл бұрын
start a social media campaign you younguns and get them to reform and tour!
@jonathanbennetts26323 жыл бұрын
My mate bought Andies case for his guitar in a service station on the M4, (FLIGHT HARD CASE) The guys were ripped off by BRANSON,
@herm5744 ай бұрын
Their studio albums sound so good and crisp it's almost unfathomable it translates this well to the stage. Phenomenal.
@patkeeg17 жыл бұрын
1979! this is great and I believe, unlike most bands, this band became more creative and better with time. One of my all time favorite bands. Incredibly underrated. Long live XTC!
@Fogon598 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic band!....Surely one of the most underrated ever, should have been bigger than the likes of U2 and Simple Minds!
@martinskanal4 жыл бұрын
for sure
@kidsmoked4 жыл бұрын
That would have ruined them.
@gentillygirl5453 жыл бұрын
There are reasons. But yeah, love them!
@multipipi12343 жыл бұрын
Underated.....not by me..never.
@WarrenCromartie23 жыл бұрын
There was a reason why they weren't that big. They were too good, complex and crucially too 'regional' for the masses. The same reason why Big Country were never HUGE. Cult bands. U2 & Simple Minds had a more accessible international sound. But I agree, XTC deserved to be massive. Love this band.
@TheBeeRescuer6 жыл бұрын
I've never seen this before. What an extremely important document, not only as far as XTC is concerned, but music in general. This is the epitome of what punk and new wave should have been all about. It had all the energy and rawness, but still had a great amount of technicality and pop-genius anchoring it.
@kianstevens44173 жыл бұрын
Well said!!
@nudal99933 жыл бұрын
Well No, As an original Punk was about many things and XTC weren't punk. They were just playing the same circuits, Think you need some punk dirt under your nails mate if you think XTC were what punk should have been about. So no Clash, Pistols, Crass, Adverts, Stiff Little Fingers, UK Subs, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Flux of Pink Indians, The Damned or you then? Christ on a bike Patrick are you a scared de cat? Punk gave other bands a platform artist like Costello, XTC, The Fall, The Jam, Police.
@dollygillesie4082 жыл бұрын
yea!!!
@dollygillesie4082 жыл бұрын
play Pink Thing
@mikemalo63362 жыл бұрын
I hear a lot of early Oingo Boingo in this; eyes shut, I could easily see Danny Elfman singing this song, totally.
@vandalorianvandalorian4769 Жыл бұрын
It is so important that we have these very few live performances. Andy’s well known mental health issues makes these super rare. They are so great. I’ve been a fan since I heard “Making Plans For Nigel” when it was first released. I was 15-16 I think. I’m 58 now. God Bless those men!
@robbo23578 жыл бұрын
some serious bass playing going on there
@xtstevie8 жыл бұрын
Just brilliant by one of the UKs best ever bands.........Awesome x
@richholoch823011 ай бұрын
Four of the most inventive and super talented musicians ever
@goctagonrecovery32702 жыл бұрын
XTC is one of the catchiest and most fun bands I’ve ever heard/seen.
@darrylwiggins47997 ай бұрын
That's why I have always loved them.
@Tunnofun10 жыл бұрын
XTC is my favorite band! If I was stranded on a deserted island and I could only take the music of one artist- it would be XTC!!! Andy Partridge should write songs with Paul McCartney! Andy Partridge is the only person on the planet who could fill John Lennon's shoes! And I really mean that!
@markushofer48749 жыл бұрын
I`m with you. The only possible Islandmusic!!
@MaximumJoy9 жыл бұрын
which album would you bring? drums and wires?
@markushofer48749 жыл бұрын
Maximum Joy My favorite is the big express!
@tarheel84949 жыл бұрын
Maximum Joy apple venus (both if possible).
@zioledeux82176 жыл бұрын
Tunofun DEFINITELY, my favourite band too. So underrated
@billsinclair6515 Жыл бұрын
Andy Partridge: superb vocalist, "sleeper" solo guitarsit, avid performer and the only rock n roller I ever heard of that started out on drugs then came off them when he was famous. Absolute legend and he and his band were the music backdrop to my teenage years in the late 70s
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
To be fair, his drugs were Valium (until a week or two after this performance, and he was dependent on it until he went cold turkey [which did not go well]) and Beer. Other than that, I don't know him to have taken anything.
@BernieLopez_ Жыл бұрын
Andy was prescribed Valium beginning at age 13. He wasn’t into illicit drugs.
@dynjarren8355 Жыл бұрын
He took a Valium a day since he was 13. He unraveled when he quit.
@stephenbennett1643 Жыл бұрын
@@101Volts I once met a guy in my local in early 90s who grew up and went to school with Andy, He said he took his accoustic guitar everywhere with him, and was very partial to a " Smoke " Those great songs and lyrics were inspired by something !
@digidrum20038 жыл бұрын
Much love for XTC from Texas,fan since 1983
@pandorski350003 жыл бұрын
the sound is like that on the album, amazing, they're so good
@GarryWoottonАй бұрын
Great set.
@Mukundanghri Жыл бұрын
Damn good Band. I discovered them back in the early '80s. This was a treat.
@tapstring2 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful. What a great surprise to see this. Even in 1979, their music was so varied in rhythms, melodies and arrangements. If you've playing guitar for a year and think you'll be able to play these arrangements, think again.
@daveoh139 жыл бұрын
i was lucky enough to see xtc live twice... drums & wires tour & black sea tour... a great live band with great songwriters & musicians... i just wish there were more shots of terry chambers' drumming in this video... especially his "peasoup-peasoup" hi-hats in "nigel"...
@robbob12343 жыл бұрын
Agreed, saw them twice as well and am dismayed at the lack of Terry footage AND this dull French crowd!
@simonsbuddy11 жыл бұрын
I've NEVER seen them live...Andy Partridge is quite delightfully quirky, isn't he?
@joelybarish46186 жыл бұрын
Andy playing some wicked guitar parts that I assumed were Dave!
@edwardspearing51484 жыл бұрын
No.. It was for Rodney.
@pawnhearts87854 жыл бұрын
Dave's parts are even harder
@Astr-w6y Жыл бұрын
English Roundabout is one of my favorite XTC tunes, it's a challenging rhythm to figure out as the turnaround is unexpected, great band !
@LeeBarry4 жыл бұрын
Nice to revisit. I love Moulding's "thwacky" sound on what looks to be a Mustang.
@spookerz353 жыл бұрын
Close! But its actually a MusicMaster, you can tell by the pick guard. Love the tone he used in this concert too. Colin is a great player that (unfortunately) flies under the radar because XTC wasn't a mainstream band.
@LeeBarry3 жыл бұрын
@@spookerz35 It was a mainstream band to me because they were played on a radio station I was loyal to in the 80s and 90s.
@alancharles34596 жыл бұрын
I think this is the best live playing I have ever seen. I always knew XTC were a tight studio band but had no idea they could pull it off live like this. From the great solo in Reel to the elastic bass strings on Helicopter and the shamefully overlooked work on drums. Pea soup pea soup! Ha dead right. Oh not to forget fantastic rhythm chops and little vignettes in between vocals by Mr Partridge. That Swindon sound - it really was something, they put me in mind of the Beatles live in that each knew exactly how to put a little pep in here and there without ever messing up the others' work. Superb gentlemen.
@dirtydave26913 жыл бұрын
Terry Chambers is an incredible drummer.
@budfoon3 жыл бұрын
Apparently, Andy's goal in the earlier days was to write songs they could perform live. Only later - in their studio recording days - did they do more complex arrangements that would have been more challenging to pull off live.
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
You should check out their April 17, 1981 show which is available on here in Bootleg form. It's even better. The March 8, 1982 show is also great, and the August 8, 1980 show is a good one, but the video portion only had 6 songs recorded, yet they played more. Most of the audio from that one's available in bootleg form, but I don't think it's on YT.
@stephengraham14306 жыл бұрын
Had a ticket to see them in Newcastle in 1980- then Andy had his famous wobble and they never toured again.... at least now I can get a sense of the massive treat that I missed... This criminally ignored and underrated band are arguably the best power pop outfit ever!!! Franz Ferdinand are a third rate tribute band!!! God bless you Andy partridge!!!
@stephenbennett1643 Жыл бұрын
1980 was the Blacksea tour ! Andy had his wobble on Settelment tour in Paris 82 . I had a chance to see them at Norwich on Blacksea tour but due to work, didn't . With all intentions of catching them on next tour . We all know wot happened . Never did get to see my fave band. If only i could go back to 1980 i'd take a sicky .😩
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
They stopped touring in 1982, though. Then again, you're saying Australia. I don't think they were in Australia again after 1980.
@hilow23418 жыл бұрын
One of XTC's key live performances! Andy, Colin, and especially David are at the top of their musical abilities!
@dirtydave26913 жыл бұрын
Terry Chambers is a great drummer. I still steal his licks to this day! Anyone catch the stick twirl at 03:05?
@IssaIbrahim7 жыл бұрын
Saw them in winter 1981 at the Palladium in NYC. Jools Holland opened then Joan Jett. She was great and had a hit with "I Love Rock & Roll" at the time and I was shocked when half the audience left after her set. The boys went on to give a stellar performance of the Black Sea touring set. Life changing. I am like many of the commenters here a life long musician and can unequivocally say they are my favorite and possibly best band ever...besides the Beatles...cuz those boys came first and taught Andy and the boys everything they know. Still, XTC have taken the mantle proudly and capably. Rock on, Boys.
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
Simplicity's great for what it is, but the intricate parts that XTC played can take some getting used to. It's 44 years after the album release, and there's still no accurate guitar tab (chart) to play "Roads Girdle the Globe." Maybe I'll get that done, though.
@SonicVineyard9 жыл бұрын
man this band rocked!!!....i understand andy not wanting to perform live, but it was a huge pity....i missed out for a start......come on andy and colin....more music please...you're still alive.....so lets hear more of this excellence PLEEEEEEEEASE!!
@gerardmccavana4905 Жыл бұрын
Great footage. XTC were a superb band...talented...and so good live
@stephenmapplebeck1408 жыл бұрын
I love this band I first started listening to them and buying their records in 1978 when i was 12. I was lucky to see them in 1981 when they came to york . Ive seen lots of live music but even now when i listen to clips like this it makes me realise how special they really were.
@chrisadie14328 жыл бұрын
They used to practice up the road from me in Swindon, back in the day.
@tbh57895 жыл бұрын
If XTC played this set ANYWHERE now it would f**king slay. So much creativity. I stumbled on English Settlement in a record store 10 years ago and bought it on a whim. It was a great decision. DAVID BOWIE EAT YOUR HEART OUT!
@gaskellr443 жыл бұрын
You are correct about how awesome XTC are and for the last two yrs I have come across Skylarking which is a masterpiece album. You can slag any other bands off comparing to XTC but not Bowie as he was a phenomenon and incomparable, and to be left alone.
@lucienlachance9604 Жыл бұрын
I was at this gig for Chorus french Music program at this time. Incredible concert. I was also at 1980 concert wich was half a song long. I kept preciously the ticket instead of asking for refund.
@DONTEVENSOUNDSAME3 Жыл бұрын
Andy's gtr solo/break on 'This is Pop' amazing just off the top of his head
@maskof7 жыл бұрын
What a joy to watch these guys live.
@grb321 Жыл бұрын
So great to see Are You Receiving Me? live. It's the first XTC song I ever heard, back on Rodney on the Rock on a late Saturday or Sunday night.
@michaelmaffett701 Жыл бұрын
XTC!! Live! On a stage! In front of people! My synapses are melting!
@Svatopluk3 жыл бұрын
To watch this and to think that they would start recording Black Sea only a few months later-and then English Settlement and everything that came after. Most bands would be happy to hide their early tours, but holy sh*t is this tight!
@donseagrave Жыл бұрын
xtc is not like ordinary band...thats why i love them.
@alanollier968310 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to see the Barry Andrews Keys led tunes played in the two guitar format, luckily Dave is one hell of a player.
@j1thom10 жыл бұрын
Good lord, could these guys bring it live. Such a great recording. Thanks so much for posing this!! Miss them so much...
@BREN-t1i25 күн бұрын
love these guys, Making plans was eye opening, you got David Berne, we got XTC
@vinylosaur87486 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a committed, amazing performance. For all the failings of the direction (how about some shots of Dave Gregory when he's actually soloing?) this manages to convey an incredible sense of electricity given the rather sterile ambience and somewhat reserved crowd. Great sound too.
@josephbruno29988 жыл бұрын
great video of XTC this is what it was about in 79-80------RAW-LIVE!!!!warts and all!!!!
@eardrumbuzzer46729 жыл бұрын
I had tickets for the Kabuki Theater Show in San Francisco in early 1982,(when I was 21) for the English Settlement tour, but Andy crashed and burned in San Diego 2 days before, and the show, and the entire tour was cancelled! I never had a chance to see my favorite band live! I was crushed! I still love them. They morphed into something very different after they stopped touring and made some incredible studio albums throughout the 90's and Naughties! Watching this performance, they were an incredible live band. What happened Andy?
@kidsmoked5 жыл бұрын
And.. that's a fucking sad story, man!
@robsimmons67428 жыл бұрын
these guys make playing their instruments -- the syncopated drum beats, the crazy chord structures, the solos -- look like child's play
@WinstonTexas8294 жыл бұрын
Such a shame that Andy Partridge couldn't perform after 1980, he had great stage presence. what a different story they could have had if they could have toured behind the albums.
@BigSky12 жыл бұрын
1982.
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
Yes, they stopped touring in 1982. April 3 1982 was the last show.
@WinstonTexas829 Жыл бұрын
@@101Volts Thanks for the correction :)
@nicholasbudgen48193 жыл бұрын
What an extraordinary advert for British guitar music.
@superorangeish Жыл бұрын
Great footage.These guys are on fire! The ska influence is stunning.
@mc30673 жыл бұрын
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing. This was a great electric guitar band. Like everyone viewing, I love XTC. But this little sliver of time...they had the best guitar feel and sounds and of course odd chords. Unmatched.
@desert.mantis3 жыл бұрын
Great performance. I regret that I never got to see them play back in the "the day". I remember hearing Making Plans for Nigel on WNEW-FM. Then Life Begins at the Hop. I was hooked. Thanks for the upload.
@whodatdarwin26572 жыл бұрын
Does anyone realise that Andy Partridge created a Japanese Band?
@desert.mantis2 жыл бұрын
@@whodatdarwin2657 Thanks. I'll check it out.
@avodiablackheart61313 ай бұрын
Same here. An XTC RUN is right.. How Great!! absolutely love these guys. Andy & the boys were the Bomb💥. Have to sing & boing & play along to them. Yessss!!! Thanx for this one kidz 🤩
@ksjdhg6 жыл бұрын
Great upload! Colin's contempt with the monitor mix during his hit "Making Plans for Nigel" added that little bit of edge to the performance :-)
@yasminx165 жыл бұрын
So tight and still sounds fresh.
@stephenkulakowski10402 жыл бұрын
If there’s a band that come close to the Beatles in originality,innovation and songcraft..not to mention plenty of spice in Personality it’s this band
@MrJiff689 жыл бұрын
i seen them around my home town Swindon in pubs and clubs back in the day
@wishicouldshowmyname58159 жыл бұрын
jiff 67 Lucky bastard! Would love to have seen them anytime!
@musicglenn2 жыл бұрын
wow great video quality! i almost didn't recognize andy at first - he looks so "normal." black sea right around the corner!
@paulfreeman471111 жыл бұрын
Amazing Quality, The best Upload of XTC I have seen in a long time.
@bloodspsaАй бұрын
my favorite band forever
@leipzigmusic3 жыл бұрын
I love the super fan on the first row jumping like crazy while everyone else is standing still LOL that would have been me so bad
@melomane8 ай бұрын
No CGI, no backing tracks, no light show. Four guys playing the hell out of their instruments on some great songs. This is how you do it.
@David-q2c2w Жыл бұрын
So good seeing this ,as a youth it was one of my favorite albums. Now, seeing them live is a treat. They were good ,very good!!!
@anastasi556 жыл бұрын
I just saw the biopic on Starz... It's amazing that Partridge only managed to perform by doing Valium... So sad he never got therapy for the stage fright afterwards...
@willflum2847 Жыл бұрын
It sucks to watch this now knowing that Andy is totally wasted just to perform on stage without anxieties. XTC meant so much to me as a kid and now that it breaks my heart. Love you Mr Partridge
@dartheejit679717 күн бұрын
Amazing, thanks for sharing this.
@jtcorey768111 ай бұрын
What could have been if Andy could have carried on performing live. Their music got better each album. Special beyond words yet still unknown to so many then and now. Listen to every record, every track. Genius.
@bogardus1002 жыл бұрын
79 L'un de mes premiers concert que j'ai eu la chance de vivre avec mon frère à Nantes La Beaujoire Skafish et XTC étaient en première partie du Groupe Police, XTC avait allumé la mèche et Police avait enflammé la Beaujoire
@DfactorPop3 жыл бұрын
Great clip! Reminds me of seeing the band a year later live with the Police.
@pmamiaro2 жыл бұрын
que maravilla XTC
@RafaelRamone19909 жыл бұрын
13:17 Andy's solo guitar is fuckin great!!!
@rojouk26 жыл бұрын
Yeh , especially at beginning of This Is Pop - brilliant.
@trippcox26413 жыл бұрын
God
@fredache50154 жыл бұрын
My new fav band.
@gaskellr443 жыл бұрын
Are you new to them?
@sn82773 ай бұрын
Awesome. One of my favorite bands from the beginning. Never expected a live performance
@Kentonbass10 жыл бұрын
This is GREAT, really high quality, sound AND video!
@vicster94013 жыл бұрын
we're only making plans to .. watch this again !
@sharnynicoloff91313 жыл бұрын
Awesome footage of XTC! I got to see them once and then they stopprd touring. This is why this will be very special for the fans!
@rp61productions11 жыл бұрын
I'd only ever seen This Is Pop so it's great to finally see all of this, thanks for posting it.
@Covid-gp1fl2 жыл бұрын
seriously amazing live music
@jonathancory72413 жыл бұрын
Terrific! Love these chaps.
@troyevanthompson Жыл бұрын
Wow. Andy sounds studio perfect. Thank you for sharing.
@gotzolones9 жыл бұрын
Una joya , muy bueno
@dazauto14002 жыл бұрын
What a tragedy in 1982 that Andy Partridge had a breakdown and nearly went Syd Barrett. Apart from the Letterman show in 1989 they would never perform live again.
@joewhite50614 жыл бұрын
Great rendition of This is Pop, with a solo from Andy and the dropped beat on the final chorus. What I would do to have been alive and seen them play live!! ARGH. Best band ever
@andrewp.schubert24179 ай бұрын
Great live performance. Thanks for sharing.
@martinfarnworth66598 жыл бұрын
i can't think of any other band that i love more as time goes on. haven't even properly listened to some of their early albums being biased toward their stuff from skylarking onwards.
@jimbosaul39969 жыл бұрын
what a crime it is that Terry Chambers was almost totally ignored in this production/editing. the Director and editor should be whipped & are complete and utter twats !! its as though they thought XTC were a 3 piece band of guitarists. and had a drumming tracking playing on loop !! idiots !! Making Plans For Nigel a prime example of totally omitting Terry and his incredible handy work on the drums. you idiots !! what a missed opportunity. tho thanks anyway for uploading. a nice piece of nostalgic history.
@OrangeMedal28 жыл бұрын
+Jimbo Saul i agree Terry is bad ass and deserves to be recognized as such!
@spacedoginnebraska8 жыл бұрын
Well, at least they showed his sweaty back at the beginning of Helicopter.
@triambicpentameter21728 жыл бұрын
It's so typical. You will rarely find rock concert coverage that has good cameras on the drummer. Part of it may be commercial bc the front people are the face of the product. It's interesting though because the drummer / dance is almost invariably more interesting to watch as theatre, music, dance. I don't think think there's an argument to be made for limited camera resources.
@duncan-rmi5 жыл бұрын
the bbc swindon live set is better in this regard, though of course it predates mr gregory...
@faethan27569 жыл бұрын
Merci pour le partage de ce moment où Antoine de De Caunes avec l'émission Chorus présentant les XTC, donne le coup d'envoi de ma vie musicale indépendante !
@julosx9 жыл бұрын
+Faethan J'ai assez énormément écouté XTC (et les écoute toujours) depuis 82, date à laquelle je les ai découverts, c'est-à-dire trop tard : je n'avais que 11 ans quand ce Chorus a été diffusé et mes goûts musicaux étaient encore dans les limbes. Je n'ai donc jamais eu la chance de les voir en concert :(
@jonathanbennetts26323 жыл бұрын
It's a shame Andy had his little turn after this gig, But maybe not, I think the guys were better off in the studio, Thanks XTC for bringing real music and real lyrics to me. You guys will be with me until I die, and have brought me thought, intelligence, love and understanding, you are the greatest band in history. SO FAR.
@101Volts Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but he kept on with touring until the last show on April 3 1982. You're right though, it was November 1979 and in Los Angeles when his wife tossed all of his Valium which he was dependent on since a month shy of turning 13. He ended up having muscle spasms, and bouts of amnesia. "How do I play guitar?"
@augustusbetucius293111 ай бұрын
2 years later... Indeed. Yet I feel for the guy. To suddenly be off valium cold turkey. His description of his experience in the XTC documentary was the first I'd heard of it. His ex-wife must have been an awful human being. Anyway, I can sympathize. I probably would have done the same. Touring sucks hard even without that sort of thing.
@fredmossberg20698 ай бұрын
@@101Volts actually, 4/4/1981, at the Tropicana in Hollywood after playing the Hollywood Palladium. On 4/15/81 they performed at a beautiful, new state-of-the-art 700-seat club ten minutes from my apartment at the time. I had Drums And Wires and Black Sea, but I have zero memory of the gig. Ugh.....Two nights later, the next tour stop was Cherry Hill, NJ, which is widely circulated from the WMMR, Philadelphia broadcast. It's a total ripper. I get a bit sick every time I play it.
@thewordofgord7 жыл бұрын
XTC saved me from becoming a sixties prog wonk. Mind you, as they progressed from demented dance music they adopted much of what was best in prog song writing and arranging. From the moment, driving along Cawtha Road one afternoon listening to CFNY in the Toronto area, hearing their twisted version of All Along The Watchtower, I knew they were special.
@Fearless-sailing7 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Swindon, their home town, but left for college before they made it. Have all their albums but never saw them live. Would be awesome if they got back together
@patrickgreening60967 жыл бұрын
Philip Haydon Phil that ain't gonna happen - P
@iansnyder274 Жыл бұрын
Their energy is unreal!
@kentborges51144 жыл бұрын
In the early days they opened for The Police...Amazing SHOW !!! Paramount Theater Portland, Oregon
@spookerz353 жыл бұрын
Ya now Portland wants to "defund" the Police...
@gaskellr443 жыл бұрын
Apparently in the day, they were opened by R.E.M.
@yaywhewclips2425 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys, really entertaining!!! I love senses working and dear god
@chucku.farley3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Drum & Wires era.
@stephenwilson99998 ай бұрын
The Absolute best pop song of all time!!!
@Heston6810 жыл бұрын
This is so great, thanks for uploading.
@MrBillagordon2 жыл бұрын
I'm only making plans for Nigel too!
@tylerdurden43688 жыл бұрын
...amazing sound....one of the greatest songwriter ever...smply genius