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XTC recording Towers of London

Post by lysander » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:11 am

Hi folks,

I just came across this cool doc on youtube and thought there are some here who might be interested. It's XTC recording with Steve Lillywhite at Richard Branson's manor in 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIcO2R8Y ... re=related

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Post by @?,*???&? » Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:40 am

From THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by Esmo » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:02 pm

that is pretty awesome. branson is pretty wacky.

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Post by the brill bedroom » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:27 pm

Please do not make me regale you with stories of the time I played in Swindon and

A) got a letter from Colin Moulding wishing us luck with our show

and

B) had Andy Partridge's very cute daughter show up knowing all the words to our songs and then she called her dad so we could all say hello.

It may have been the greatest night of my life. I love that band.
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Post by lysander » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:56 pm

It's remarkable how much smoking is going on in that control room. Does that happen any more?

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Post by lysander » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:15 pm

Oh, Corin -- I UTSF before I posted this to see if it had been posted before, and read your great story about playing in Swindon I just heard your myspace stuff and really like it -- Holly Partridge has good taste in music!

It's great to see Terry Chambers playing on this documentary -- a friend of mine interviewed Andy Partridge after Mummer came out, and asked him whether the song "Me and the Wind" was about Terry leaving. There's all this drum-related language in the song -- "stool," "hoops," "crack the whip," etc, and it's about someone leaving. Partridge was flabbergasted because he'd never even thought of it himself.

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Post by the brill bedroom » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:11 pm

Holly's band is really good, too. They are called the Shebeats, she has sort of a Chrissie Hynde thing going on. They're really working hard, playing all over the UK.
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Post by drewbass » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:59 pm

@?,*???&? wrote:From THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
apparently not:

"What you see is NOT them recording the famous version from "Black Sea," but a carefully reconstructed remake of the song, which had already charted (despite what is said in the narration at the beginning)"

still very cool to watch. doesn't have a re-creation vibe or acting at all.

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Post by Slider » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:11 pm

the brill bedroom wrote:Please do not make me regale you with stories of the time I played in Swindon and

A) got a letter from Colin Moulding wishing us luck with our show

and

B) had Andy Partridge's very cute daughter show up knowing all the words to our songs and then she called her dad so we could all say hello.

It may have been the greatest night of my life. I love that band.
Nice!

I drove Andy all over San Francisco in my car with no seats belts one night after we did a radio interview together in 91. I asked him what beer he wanted me to grab from the liquor store. He requested Miller. We drank some beers then went out to dinner and told stories all night. That guy can spin a yarn. I wish he had the success he always deserved. What a great band.

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Post by RefD » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:54 pm

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"The chorusing...the chorusing...!"
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Post by lyle76 » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:51 pm

thanks so much for posting this - i didn't realize how great a band they were until i did some digging on youtube... had to go out and buy "the black sea" this weekend.
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Post by @?,*???&? » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:20 pm

Not only did Hugh Padgham and Steve Lillywhite do fantastic work on this, but Nick Launay and Gavin MacKillop assisted on this!

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Post by mrclean » Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:13 pm

Sorry to revive this old thread but I just found this on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT46kIDD ... ure=colike

Maybe it disappeared? I've never seen it before.

-- Steve Lillywhite
-- Hugh Padgham
-- Chain smoking in the studio
-- Richard Branson
-- Tape
-- Old Fashioned Recording

A must see...
-- mrclean

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Post by Gregg Juke » Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:05 pm

Burt Ward as Robin-- "Holy ancient-thread recovery and where the heck have you been, Mr. Clean?"

Adam West as Batman-- "That's. Right. Old. Chum!"

GJ

PS-- As to your actual point, I'll have to watch the vid. LOVED XTC and the whole "Black Sea" album. Still have "Sgt. Rock" on my iPod.

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