Chalkhills Digest Volume 12, Issue 57
Date: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 12, Number 57
Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Topics:
Robyn Hitchock
Goosey...err Turkey Turkey
Amazing!
What happened to Idea Studios?
LOVE is all you need
Andy discusses "Dear God"
D.G. & A.P. as XTC works for me, too
Andy's Amazonian Audio Adventures!!
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:21:24 +1300 From: "Neil Sheppard" <shepster247@gmail.com> Subject: Robyn Hitchock Message-ID: <3d42c8180611222121r521f8d46m7c3efc8211c6dfc1@mail.gmail.com> ...is being interviewed on Radio New Zealand (or so I think I heard yesterday on an advert) tomorrow (Tuesday evening). If this is true, it will be available for streaming for a week afterwards. thought You'd like to know. Could find no mention of it on the website though... http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/schedules/20061121 Shep.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:08:48 -0800 From: "Wayne Klein" <wtdk123@msn.com> Subject: Goosey...err Turkey Turkey Message-ID: <BAY108-F18A28F3EE49F3B0D58CB1F9E20@phx.gbl> >If you want to know who's playing the military-style snare drum and >where the "Beatle moment" in the song is, then check out the XTCfans >Blog (http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans), where there's an exclusive >interview with the birthday boy himself. > >-Todd Todd thanks for continuing to provide these interviews they are very enlightening. You always ask intelligent questions and they're not the obvious ones that every other interviewer has asked Andy! By the way a happy belated birthday to Andy! >J Pinto wrote: > > My local Record Shop has "Warbles" Collector Set for > > $69.95. > > > > I paid $67.45 for the "Box" and the last TWO Warbles > > from Andy's site(now mysteriously "suspended" > > probably because he cut a distribution deal). Add to > > that buying the individual discs as they were > > released and I'm up to near $180.00 for something I > > could now own for $70. Honestly it never bothered me. I got to hear them when they were released before the bulk of the rest of the world so that was cool. It's like when you purchase a new DVD or CD while you might get them on special (at a lesser price) within a couple months to a year they are even less than the reduced price you paid for them. It's called commerce dropping the price to move more units as the CDs sell less. Also putting them together in the boxed set I don't doubt that the price was reduced to make the set more attractive. If they hadn't sold well in the first place Andy would never have been able to put them out in this fashion so the argument would be academic. Also from Todd: The band is very close to reaching a settlement with the label, buck up -- video releases should be on the way in '07... Yes about bloody time that this set was out! >With his Monstrance album of improvised music with early XTC keyboard >player Barry Andrews released in January, MOJO must also ask about >that long-dormant parent band. "I speak of XTC in the past tense", >admits Partridge. "It's in the freezer and I dunno if it'll ever come >out again - Colin [Moulding] phoned me recently and said he wasn't >interested in music any more, and it wouldn't be XTC without him. But >I have been ummm'ing and arr'ing about working with Dave Gregory >again- so I mustn't say 'no' ". Paul thanks for the info I haven't seen the latest issue of Mojo (to be honest I usually skip it at the newsstand before I decide if its a worthwhile issue to buy). All I can say is that if Colin is out of the picture I'm hoping he'll say yes to Andy and Dave working together under the name. While it wouldn't be the same the two collaborating together would be very interesting indeed without Colin in the mix. As much as I've loved the last XTC album I did miss Dave's guitar playing that always complimented Andy's and his backing vocals (and his "presence" on the albums). To all those in the U.S. have a Happy Thanksgiving and to those outside the U.S. a great weekend! Wayne
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Culnane <paulculnane@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Amazing! Message-ID: <20061124012209.80562.qmail@web86906.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Don Device (a Chalkfiend and a Chalkfriend) rocks! That's all. PC "The vanquished sun is like the withered yolk of a weathered egg" - Marc Bolan Paul Culnane ICE Productions Australia
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:49:37 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> Subject: What happened to Idea Studios? Message-ID: <20061124164937.40921.qmail@web61321.mail.yahoo.com> Hey folks; I perused the recent interviews with Ansy, in which he describes the comatose state of XTC right now since Colin is not inclined to make music right now. Did it strike anyone else odd that Andy described Colin as disappearing? He said that he does not know where Colin lives anymore, nor does he have a phone number for him. He describes the situation as being kind of weird since Colin is his partner in Idea Records. Wait a minute! Imagine how it must feel to be Andy right now. Your partner drops out of sight. He no longer wants to make music. But didn't they spend a huge amount of time and money building a modern studio in Colin's garage? If Colin has apparently moved, what the heck happened to Idea Studios? Does anybody know? Perhaps Todd can ask Andy next time they speak..... Mike
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:11:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Culnane <paulculnane@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: LOVE is all you need Message-ID: <20061125011140.32101.qmail@web86913.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> The "new" Beatles album is certain to spark some robust debate. What I find refreshing is that this time (as opposed to the Macca-centric "1" collection), the focus is on Dr Winston O'Boogie and Hari Georgeson, and even little Richie gets his share. But you simply MUST get the CD/DVD-A version. George and Giles Martin have gone ballistic with the sound quality of the standard CD, but the 5.1 Surround mix on the DVD-A will leave you breathless. Many people may feel like they've had a Fabs overload (interesting that this one has emerged just before Christmas), but in my opinion, this LOVE thing is the ace-est ever. Has anyone seen the Cirque du Soliel (sp?) show in Vegas? What's it like? I bet it's a real spectacle. Hope they put it out on DVD. Paul "The vanquished sun is like the withered yolk of a weathered egg" - Marc Bolan Paul Culnane ICE Productions Australia
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:30:45 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: Andy discusses "Dear God" Message-ID: <20061127003045.3080.qmail@web32012.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi: Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the song of the week is "Dear God." If you want to know where the shrine to St. Andy would be, or find out what America's marketing jingle is, check out the XTCfans blog site (http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans). Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look... -Todd We all need a big reduction in amount of tears/and all the people that you made in your image/see them fighting in the street/'cause they can't make opinions meet about God... -Andrew Partridge, songwriter (1953- )
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: Kzincat <kzincat98@yahoo.com> Subject: D.G. & A.P. as XTC works for me, too Message-ID: <20061127163037.33260.qmail@web90511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >"I speak of XTC in the past tense", admits Partridge. >"It's in the freezer and I dunno if it'll ever come >out again - Colin [Moulding] phoned me recently and >said he wasn't interested in music any more, and it >wouldn't be XTC without him. But I have been ummm'ing >and arr'ing about working with Dave Gregory again- so >I mustn't say 'no' ". LOL so what *is* Colin f'n doing/interested in these days then!?!?! I think Dave G. and Andy need to sit in the shed and laugh alot.... then get down to work. Yay! ...BTW, whats with all these people bidding against me for the F.W. box set up on ebay?... dang, too late. D.F.
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:53:15 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: Andy's Amazonian Audio Adventures!! Message-ID: <250660.18267.qm@web32001.mail.mud.yahoo.com> You've heard the podcast! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/gss/detail/10840/) You've downloaded 2 Rainbeau Melt! (ditto) Now you can THRILL to Andy's AMAZING musical recommendations as never-before revealed -- ON SCREEN!! Where can I FIND such riches, you ask? Why, say I, right HERE: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/1000034151 Find out more about what's in Andy's junk drawers (hmmm, perhaps I should rephrase that), what's going on with him and Colin, what's going on with him and Barry and Martyn, what's going on with him and Robyn, what's going on with him and Charlotte, what's going on, yeah, what's going on, etc. You can also find out what albums Andy's been wearing out the laser beam of his CD player on, all courtesy of Amazon's Benjamin Lukoff, who deserves a tip of the hat and a tipple off the bottle for his fine work on our behalf. Ben, next one's on me. -Todd The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)
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