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August 4, 2008: Debie Edmonds wrote recently to let us know that although Guitargonauts
disappeared off the radar it's not dead. In fact, Guitargonauts has been
reborn at www.guitargonauts.info, with the help of new
webmasters Daniel Prendiville and Jefferson Ogata.
July 30, 2008: Photographer C. A. Vanaria spent years shooting bands for various
Boston fanzines, and has now published a book entitled The Boston Years: The
Music Scene in Photographs 1979-1986. The book collects about 80 of her
photographs, and is somewhere between a total DIY effort and a professionally
put together project. It includes many photographs that have not been included
in previous gallery shows of this body of work. Many bands are featured but of
course one of them is XTC. More details available at http://www.thebostonyears.com.
May 9, 2008: XTC Fans
writes: “For those of you despairing that Andy Partridge is merely
sitting around the house drinking absinthe and spraying Easy Cheese
on crackers, then eating them, one after the other after the other after the
other after the ... well, fear not, for Mr. P is far more productive and
motivated than that! In fact, he's been in the studio with playboy millionaire
Stuart Rowe, multi-instrumentalist and engineer extraordinaire (he twiddled the
knobs on Monstrance, among
many other things), working on a track for the upcoming Lighterthief album, Stutter Drop. Titled
‘All Done Things’ and mixed by Stu and Andy, the track
features the latter on ‘harmony vocals, guitar solo and Motown guitar in
final chorus’ ... so get thee over there
and give it a listen or three. Add it to your player.”
No news is no news.
No news is no news.
No news is no news.
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August 24
The song of the week is “No Thugs in Our House”. Thank you, XTCfans and Todd Bernhardt.
August 21
Paul Kuzmanovski has submitted bass tablature for “The Mayor of Simpleton” and “Garden of Earthly Delights”. Thanks, Paul!
August 18
Iain Lee (from Virgin Radio) wrote to say that he interviewed Colin and Andy for XFM many years ago, but then he left and the interview was never broadcast. So now it's a podcast instead. Iain also says that you “can do whatever [you] want with it — record it, share it, whatever”. Enjoy!
August 10
The song of the week is “You're the Wish You Are I Had”.
August 5
Andy and Colin are “Making Drinks for Nigel, Pt. 1” in Mocking Music.
July 27
I just finished watching Bee Movie so I suppose it's no surprise the XTC fans song of the week (featuring Andy Partridge) is “Bee Town”.
July 21
XTCfans: Dave Gregory remembers “Roads Girdle the Globe”.
Volume 14, Number 26: August 15, 2008
August 21, 2008: Andy Partridge: Tin Toy Clockwork Train
August 21, 2008: Miniatures One + Two — two sequences of tiny masterpieces from 1980 and 2000 edited by Morgan Fisher
August 12, 2008: Pop·Rock — Platinum Collection
August 12, 2008: Best of New Wave
August 12, 2008: I Heard It Through The Apevine — The Ape Label Sampler No. 1
August 12, 2008: Ultime 80
August 10, 2008: Pugwash: At the Sea
Chalkhills is a web site and mail list dedicated to
XTC (the apparently now defunct band). Surf Chalkhills to find a wealth
of information about XTC, their music and recordings, and much more.
Chalkhills is frequently updated (I get bored) so check back often. Chalkhills
is the longest extant XTC web site, first hacked together by me, John Relph, in May 1994; FTP archives were first
available in April 1991.
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