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XTC co-founder Andy Partridge defined himself as an eccentric and prodigious composer of songs inspired by ska, pop, rock and folk, and a guitarist with a flair for crafting off-kilter chords and licks, as well as whiplash solos that followed no predictable contour.


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In Rare Interview XTC's Andy Partridge Says He No Longer Writes Songs But Would Welcome A Kate Bush-Style Comeback. Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Sony. News October 21, 2022 1:48 PM By Chris.


XTC's Andy Partridge Recalls the End of His Live Career

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Take Away and The Lure of Salvage are sides one and two, respectively, of the debut record by English musician Andy Partridge (credited as "Mr. Partridge").


Andy Partridge Everything'll Be Alright

Andy Partridge discusses writing songs for other people, XTC vinyl reissues, mum's catalogs, and more in this entertaining chat with Darryl Bullock for XTC C.


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May 21, 2020 XTC's Andy Partridge talks the band's final album. Michael Putland/Getty Images Andy Partridge is having some particularly bad luck lately. He's pretty sure he had the.


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Prog "Colin Moulding was deemed the good-looking one who wrote the singalong stuff, so he mostly got the A-sides. And because I was the weird specky one, I used to get the B-sides": XTC's Andy Partridge looks back and forward By Rob Hughes ( Prog ) published 25 October 2023


XTC’s Andy Partridge Announces First New Solo Recordings In 8 Years Stereogum

Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who founded the rock band XTC. He and Colin Moulding each acted as a songwriter and frontman for XTC, with Partridge writing and singing about two-thirds of the group's material.


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'Hail to the provinces!' says Jim Keoghan while talking to Andy Partridge of XTC, 30 years after the release of English Settlement. It sometimes gets forgotten that it's the small, unassuming places that can produce great bands and sounds. A lot of attention gets focused on the big cities, their cultural vibrancy and inherent tension seen as.


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A new book, "Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC" (due March 22 from Jawbone Press), finds Partridge and old pal Todd Bernhardt having in-depth conversations about how 30 songs from the band.


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June 17, 2021. Andy Partridge Redferns. Following a pandemic delay caused by a busted studio door, XTC 's Andy Partridge has finally announced the first volume in his My Failed Songwriting.


Andy Partridge releasing new EP, reissuing XTC's "Mummer" with original sleeve art

" Dear God " is a song by the English rock band XTC that was first released as a non-album single with the A-side "Grass". Written by Andy Partridge, the song lyrics grapple with the existence of God and the problem of evil. Partridge was inspired by a series of books with the same title, which Partridge viewed as exploitative of children.


"Music is so abused these days" XTC's Andy Partridge opens up about songwriting, painting and

This interview with Andy Partridge of XTC was originally published in Guitar Player's July, 2000 issue. Partridge was promoting would become the last XTC album, Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2).


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Andy Partridge full interview and Q&A | XTC Convention 2022 - YouTube 0:00 / 1:03:35 Andy Partridge discusses touring pressure, Smiley Smile, crazy fans, The Big Express, and more in this.


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Fergal Kinney 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.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia XTC were an English band formed in Swindon in 1972. Fronted by songwriters Andy Partridge (vocals, guitars) and Colin Moulding (vocals, bass), the band gained popularity during the rise of new wave in the 1970s, later playing in a variety of styles that ranged from angular guitar riffs to elaborately arranged .


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Born in Malta but raised in Swindon, England, where he still lives, Andy Partridge is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is the founder of the internationally renowned new-wave group XTC, with whom he recorded fourteen widely acclaimed albums—among them English Settlement, Drums & Wires, and Skylarking —during a career spanning four decades..