Terry Hall, best known as the frontman of British ska band The Specials, would not be an obvious choice when thinking of fans of pop music. As one of the pioneers of the 2 tone, ska revival of the ...

A small but enthusiastic crowd witnessed the weird and wonderful music of XTC at the Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls last ...

In 2018 band leader Nick Heyward – a solo artist ... I met Francis Rossi from Status Quo instead! I wanted to be XTC or Talking Heads but when I wrote the Haircut One Hundred album Pelican ...

Andy Partridge has recalled the making of XTC’s classic Skylarking album in the new Uncut, out now. The band, in particular Partridge, clashed repeatedly with producer Todd Rundgren during the ...

The song Complicated Game appeared on the album “Drums and Wires” (1979) by the English band XTC, who aimed to synthesize the influences of early punk, dub, pop and new wave. Originally the last track ...