I saw them in Toronto on the Drums and Wires tour in the early 80s. Unforgettable.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is what the Beatles would sound like if they had been a new wave band! Long live to XTC!

Holy Crap it's LIVE, not lip synched! What a gem of a find....

@101Volts

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Otto Man, there's a whole heap of Live XTC Bootlegs here: archive.org/details/@dharmanovel?and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22xtc%22&sort=titleSorter I'd suggest starting with these: 1977 - November - 17 and 26 1978 - December - 8 1979 - July - 20 (Early Dave Gregory era, late for White Music songs, also showcases Dave's guitar parts more than most other boots.) 1980 - September - 7 (Black Sea tour.) 1981 - April - 17 (In-between Black Sea and English Settlement tours, but one of the best XTC shows.) 1982 - March - 7 (Not as good as March 8 due to some recording mishaps, [Real by Reel doesn't have Andy's guitar in it,] but still good.) 1982 - March - 8 (3 tapes; Rehearsal, Audience Mic [containing the first 3 tracks, counting the pre-concert music] and the Pre-FM tape.) Also, there's an XTC Discord Server, "Simpleton," if you feel like joining. It doesn't get a lot of activity, though. I don't feel like posting a direct link to it here, sorry: the last time someone did that at the Andy Partridge & XTC Facebook Page, we got a bunch of trolls bombarding the server.

@bonvoyeurage1592

2 жыл бұрын

indeed

@BlackRoomProductions

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@TonyLovell

Жыл бұрын

WHY does anyone ever lipsync? show the music video if that's the limit of your risk tolerance

@CarlDraper

9 ай бұрын

@@TonyLovell because music studios often had or haven't the facilities to deal with a live band

I love Partridge's guitar sound. As does, presumably, Graham Coxon 😊

Fantastic, what a great band. I actually met Andy, Dave and Colin walking down the street in NYC in 1989 and spoke with them briefly at a corner on Sixth Ave. They were in town to sing King for a Day on David Letterman's show.

@andyinoregon

2 ай бұрын

I recorded that performance on my VCR and played it over and over in the years before KZread.

Absolutely fantastic performance from XTC. The best songs stay in your head for the rest of the day, and this is one of them!

Fantastic! My favorite XTC song. I only realized it was sung by Colin when I watched the video. It still sounds like Andy to me, 44 years later.

These guys were on their own planet

@multipipi1234

11 ай бұрын

I was with them

@troyevanthompson

10 ай бұрын

It was earth. We are just xtc’s guests.

@malcolmbeckett9802

10 ай бұрын

Xtc filled the space that was missing, do you know what I mean, they were not cool, so really they were very cool, because they didn't try, they just made gorgeous music reflecting life and how it Is❤

i never knew how great XTC was live

From start to that perfect finish. That's the quality of XTC.

How lucky was I to see them live twice, in NYC and SF in 79 and 80. Tightest live band of the era.

@agostinovaccarini4935

Жыл бұрын

So lucky mate!

@ricardoa.mendoza8487

10 ай бұрын

I would give the family jewels to have had a chance to see XTC perform.

@garyolshan4177

10 ай бұрын

Yes saw them at the Whisky Go Go in L.A. on that tour. One of the best bands iin history,

@susanklein7448

10 ай бұрын

@@agostinovaccarini4935 Indeed.

Bassist who sings, love it! So tight. XTC.

@misterbonzoid5623

10 ай бұрын

Paul McCartney, Sting, Phil Lynott. Great.

@conshea7382

10 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Ben Orr in another band with two lead singers

Dear God, my senses are working overtime as they always do when I hear this amazing band. This is pop, so they say, but it's far more than that. There is no language in our lungs that can define the excellence of XTC. As refreshing as oranges and lemons, their passionate music could melt the guns of hostility in our lives and bring about world peace, while freeing us all of the ball and chain of musical mediocrity...... if only anyone had fucking listened!

@garyolshan4177

2 жыл бұрын

I fucking listened

@bobgreen623

11 ай бұрын

I fucking listened, and loved what I heard.

@conshea7382

10 ай бұрын

Do you live on respectable street?

@martinduran9523

2 ай бұрын

You seem to like XTC a lot! Some would say you are burning with Optimism's flames!

@stephentymruk8206

2 ай бұрын

Nice tribute Warren. XTC had everything you wanted from a band, the awesome melodies, chord progressions, lyrics, mood shifts, wry bitter-sweet sense of humour, the last goes on. Too good for the recyclable slurry of the music industry. I can't believe a sound like this, so advanced and light years ahead of their contemporaries was 45 years ago. Proud to be a forever & passionate fan.

Brilliant seminal English post-punk. I was lucky enough to see them a couple of times in this heyday era. They were not about looks, although Andy P tried; it was all about the writing and musicianship. Internationally influential stuff, and a type of Englishness to be proud of.

Xtc are truly the best!! Young people should check them out,you won't be sorry!! Dig deep!!😍

Great to see Colin playing his fretless live, its very rare.

@synchromystici5m

9 ай бұрын

That's not his fretless, it's his fretted Fender Mustang.

@101Volts

28 күн бұрын

He didn't seem to get a Fretless until 1981 / 1982, this is April 1979, so it's not that early.

Never saw this before. Great find. Gerard (Belfast)

Fantastic! Love that split screen shot of Andy and Dave guitar work!

@Westerdd

2 жыл бұрын

yeah that was clever, a diagonal split to match the natural orientation of the guitar when played

Wowzas! So gutted I never saw them live but forever grateful for these utter gems

@BMXOPHY

9 ай бұрын

And imagine that if they all want it, they could tour the world right now.

I love you tube. I so wish I could have seen these guys back then.

I love how they split the screen for the guitar solo, so you could see both Partridge and Gregory doing wut they do. Quite rare in things from the 60's and 70's to find a cameraman/team who are interested in those kinds of shots!!!

@alihart

10 ай бұрын

Yup - and, certainly on TOTP, the camera would unerringly look for the bass player during any guitar solo 😂

@DrTomoculus

10 ай бұрын

:D@@alihart

plus, the bass part is fantastic!

XTC and Cardiacs were from another planet, pure geniuses!

Dat was Tight!

This is f*cking awesome.

They are the best rock band

I love this and I’ve been lucky to have been to XTC 3 times...lucky me‼️😃

Love Partridge's chords here

No slouching in this band. The drummer is a machine and a good looking rough guy also. He must've pulled some birds.

a musical milestone

AP was phenomenal in XTC in the late 70s!!

Amazing to see Dave carry the backbone of this song on his guitar, that non stop riff for the whole 3 or 4 minutes. da da da dum...da da da da da da dum...da da da da da da dum...

@spookerz35

2 жыл бұрын

I reckon Dave is playing the monotonous "rhythm" part of the song, while Andy is playing lead. I wonder who played what parts on the studio recording?

@101Volts

2 жыл бұрын

@@spookerz35 I suppose it's the same for the studio recording.

I see where that Message in a bottle riff came! XTC, ahead of their time ...

Music from 2035 in 1979

As a fan since even before this i've never seen this before or even knew it existed!! Brilliant find & thanks for posting.

この曲のシングルCDを手に入れた時の喜びを今でも覚えています(もちろん日本盤を待ったりしなかったので )

Check out the chords Andy is playing...so far out, they're IN

@roberthunter3048

3 жыл бұрын

Haha..me either..still cant

@pawnhearts8785

3 жыл бұрын

I actually did figure it out. They're actually just simple chords. The Verse is D F#m Bm and Am7

@bonzodog6872

3 жыл бұрын

If he was in tune this might have been a hit

@outtathyme5679

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonzodog6872 sounds right out of tune

@chuckabbate5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@outtathyme5679 self sabotaging

Nice to see them actually LIVE ! Awesome !

I'm transfixed on Dave's guitar playing.

Dave’s heavy groove reminds me of the Four Tops song , I Can’t help myself. Probably inspired Colin as one of the songs that played at the Hop ❤.

So good. Tidy performance

Bloody good!

I saw them about 2 yrs later at MFP in Roslyn NY

Andy's chords at the end..my God.

It's the best band！！！！

Absolutely brilliant!!!!!

These guys were so good! 😎

Jesus, Andy is LOUD!

Magic!💚

Awesome!

Excellent👏🏻👏🏻

This is bloody brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

simply brilliant!"

Where’s the Ibanez Andy? Great version this......that solo never ceases to tickle the ears.

@101Volts

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't always play the Ibanez Artist, that one seems to have been an occasional player from later 1978 - 1980. He seems to have mostly played that Sunburst Gibson Les Paul from 1978 - 1980, and there was also a Black Les Paul that he played in 1980 - 1981/1982, which was stolen at some point.

God this band was great! Thanks for posting!

Great performance! Thanks for the upload.

before you know where you are you are somewhere else

With this upload I'm happy to become subscriber # 1000!

Brilliant..... 👍

Brilliant.....16 again.

Tremendous stuff

Man all this time I thought Andy Partridge was the one singing lead vocals, I was wrong

@nthwndroregano6604

3 жыл бұрын

colin writes the best songs lol

@IcarusSuite

2 жыл бұрын

@@nthwndroregano6604 I agree. His lyrics are something else.

@christopherosborne7058

8 ай бұрын

Colin sings the songs he wrote, one or two on each album. See Generals and Majors,Nigel and King for a Day!

What is Colin staring at, a teleprompter? He certainly seems mesmerized. (Stage fright? Perish the thought.)

👏👏👏

GOOD

wow

Pure daycent

I love this performance, and them, and Colin.. but I just wanna know what is he staring at? Hehe

Great performance, but need to know why Bobby Charlton was joining the show....

@wweebbeerrnn

24 күн бұрын

He was going to play the solo and sing chorus, but something happened ...

I hear a great David 'Kid' Jensen BBC session version of this the other day, really clean and stripped down. Would love to hear it again but can't find it on here.

@fuckamericanidiot

3 жыл бұрын

The transistor blast box set :)

@iaind

3 жыл бұрын

@@fuckamericanidiot Thanks! I have just found 3 versions on 'A Coat of Many Cupboards' too.

💜🤘🏾

Naughty Naughty. :)

Very good. Shame they had to give up playing live. Might've been more successful.

I've loved this band since they first appeared. i have to admit a certain Talking Heads influence here... not a bad band to borrow from at the time.

Ace.

Great! De donde ha salido esto?

Have I not commented YET?

I’ve never seen this. I’ve been a fan of XTC since the mid-80’s. It is annoying, that shows like this, would run credits over the performance. Like “books are burning” on a British show, xtc at end, credits over, and they fade out on the song (audio on boxset, compared) If XTC would ever get in the Rock Hall, which they deserve, their induction would likely be faded too.

Damm! Doesn't anyone realize that Dave Gregory's guitar doesn't sound?

@101Volts

2 жыл бұрын

Dave's parts often did seem overshadowed by Andy's, in volume. Here's an exception: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5qm19mvlKndgag.html

@jlonzoy

2 жыл бұрын

@@101Volts Thanks!

@BlackRoomProductions

Жыл бұрын

I thought that too but it's actually Colin's bass and all the low end that's missing.

So Granada dumped So It Goes.. Tony Wilson for.. This?

@brimans3092

5 ай бұрын

I mean the format.. Not XTC who are genius obviously

Studio albums today do not come close to a live performance like this.

Tempo is a bit slow

Dave's guitar is muted! N

@BlackRoomProductions

Жыл бұрын

I thought that too but it's actually Colin's bass and all the low end that's missing.

Terry Chambers was a machine!

Awesome!