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XTC

Michel Gondry - Director - 2005

Michel Gondry picks his 12 favourite albums

From the visual to the stereo image.

Tim Coffman
Mar 12, 2024
XTC photographed in Philadelphia in 1981

‘Dear God’: The violent protests triggered by XTC’s controversial single

A provocative classic from a masterful oeuvre.

Jordan Potter
Mar 3, 2024
The Story Behind The Song - XTC - Making Plans For Nigel - 1979

The Story Behind The Song: XTC’s ‘Making Plans for Nigel’

A seminal track.

Ben Forrest
Jan 9, 2024
XTC photographed in Philadelphia in 1981

Andy Partridge on the children’s books that inspired XTC’s ‘Dear God’

A familiar tale of tortured agnosticism.

Tom Taylor
Sep 11, 2023
XTC photographed in Philadelphia in 1981

When a fake XTC album outsold a real one

A role reversal.

Tyler Golsen
Jul 8, 2023
Andy Partridge

Why XTC frontman Andy Partridge retired from music

More reasons than one.

Arun Starkey
Nov 11, 2022

Sports Team mature with sophomore effort ‘Gulp!’

Long awaited.

Arun Starkey
Sep 23, 2022
Year by year underrated albums

The most underrated albums of the 1980s year by year

Hidden gems exposed.

Jordan Potter
Apr 11, 2022
Andy Partridge

Is XTC’s Andy Partridge the most underrated songwriter of the past 50 years?

An underrated icon.

Arun Starkey
Nov 11, 2021

35 years of the iconic LP ‘Skylarking’ from XTC

A corker

Jack Whatley
Oct 27, 2021
XTC's iconic soundtrack of British life

XTC’s parental rebellion began on ‘Making Plans for Nigel’

An iconic moment.

Tom Taylor
Sep 14, 2021
XTC's iconic soundtrack of British life

XTC’s iconic soundtrack of British life: ‘Drums and Wires’

Revisit this classic album.

Arun Starkey
Aug 22, 2021

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