There is only one camera at the side and other than that there is no where for the cameraman to go to get through to provide a close up other than through the front of the stage!
Their live sound was as close to the recording as you could hope for. Andy’s vocals, everything for that matter was top notch, all the way to the synth interlude. Thank you Andy, Dave, Terry and Colin for the great music and inspiration over the decades.
Unlike most of their new wave contemporaries XTC possesed expert and complex musicianship. Check out Andy's crazy chording mixed with Dave Gregory's skillful leads along with Colin Moulding's all over the fretboard bass work all along with Terrry Chambers' solid precise drumming and you'll know what I mean.
What is sad is how good they are live, yet they never toured this or any of their following albums. While all the band's fans know this story, it is still one of the greatest missed opportunities in Rock.
XTC was so good live. I’ve never seen this before & it’s amazing. Wish they would have been able to do more live shows, but unfortunate for Andy’s mental health. I just love this band.
40 odd years after it was released I recently bought English Settlement. What a brilliant album. Where are the bands doing experimental stuff like this these days?
There's the live quality of the band to marvel at, and also, how pleased Andy seemed to be with everything. He's clearly enjoying himself. Too bad the "fear of performing" crept up and removed that entire facet of their life as a band.
This video led me to do a deep dive into XTC and place them atop of my list of favorite bands. "Yacht Dance" with its Classical, quirky folk, bouncing bass slides & flanged drums changed my life in ways I can't quite explain just yet. And "No Thugs.." is the perfect, immaculate performance. Thank you for sharing this video!
Such an underrated band. I saw ExTC (Terry's band playing XTC's classics) at the 100 Club and was a) sad that I will never see XTC live; and b) happy that Terry is keeping the XTC catalogue alive.
As usual with artists, there’s no such thing as the tired cliche “underrated”. You’re either appreciated by those who like your work or you’re not. If you don’t enjoy a great band like XTC, that’s your loss.
Love this performance so much. Thanks for posting in great definition. It's interesting to see the band and especially Andy so close to the bottom falling out, but appearance is that all 4 of them are on top of their game.
Happily, Andy Partridge has been writing songs again! We have recently written 1/2 of my new album together, The Concrete Jangle on Wicked Cool Records. Here's one of the songs: "Fourth Of July" by Steve Conte & Andy Partridge - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G6PB0I5jkLg.htmlsi=zaH_607ATTOd3eiG
Their best Album IMHO and Andy has hair! Sound quality is good here but more importantly this shows how good their musicianship was as live this sounds very like the record.
Brilliant, but I think some pedantry is required regarding the introduction. As anyone from the area would know if you went from Swindon to Chippenham you'd be travelling in the wrong direction towards Bristol rather than towards London. The station also isn't called Chippenham Junction, its just called Chippenham.
Probably not. In both cases (with the OGWT videos) I enjoyed the performances and downloaded the videos for my own "collection" and then decided to make them available again bc they had disappeared from RU-vid. So probably only if that happens again :-)
XTC were the Who of their time, they would kick the arse of any of their contemporaries when it comes to playing live! What a shame and waste they stoped touring ...
It wasn't so much stage fright as how his body and head were reacting to the exhaustion from touring combined with going cold turkey after 12 years of valium addiction.
@@nudnick His wife of the time has a lot to answer for, though I'm guessing she must've had no idea of the severe, potentially fatal medical implications of throwing away someone's benzodiazepines when they're physically dependent. Absolutely ridiculous thing to have happened.