March 10, 2012: Billy Sherwood is in the process of recording two
albums, a Supertramp tribute and an original prog-rock album. Colin
Moulding of XTC will appear on the former album singing “It's Raining
Again” and on the latter album on a track called “Check
Point Karma”.
February 28, 2012: XTC: ESSENTIAL
(EMI Gold UK G6440982, 19th March 2012)
1. Making Plans for Nigel
2. Life Begins at the Hop
3. Statue of Liberty
4. Mayor of Simpleton
5. Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down
6. Sgt Rock (Is Going to Help Me)
7. The Disappointed
8. Great Fire
9. Wonderland
10. Generals and Majors (edit)
11. Jason and the Argonauts
12. This is Pop?
13. Science Friction
14. Are You Receiving Me?
15. Senses Working Overtime
October 11, 2011: A happy combination of an active XTC forum and the rise of the band created an
amazing series of gigs culminating in a gathering of XTC fans in Swindon in
2005. As an XTC tribute, the Fossil Fools know that such circumstances are
unlikely to happen again, but that doesn't diminish the pure pleasure they get
from bringing XTC songs to life. Come and join us! Saturday, November 12,
7:30pm, at The Dublin Castle, 94 Parkway, Camden Town. Tickets: £7 on
the door; £6 in advance. Opening band is The Florida
Recounts. Fossil Fools - "the official XTC tribute" - Dave Gregory.
No news is no news.
No news is no news.
November 10, 2011: Happy birthday, Andy!!
September 20, 2011: Happy Birthday, Gregsy!
August 16, 2011: Happy Birthday, Colin!
July 18, 2011: Happy Birthday, Terry Chambers!
July 16, 2011: See Dave Gregory Live!
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May 19
Rob Hill points us to “The Brit List: Five Great XTC Songs Every Household Should Own” on BBC America.
April 28
Ray Hill shared some magazine covers: New Musical Express, October 21, 1978, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980 and Record Mirror, October 11, 1980.
April 21
Augie Krater writes, “Good lord it has been forever... but that means a bunch of wonderful goodies!” GO+ front and back; Go 2 back; English Settlement front and back; Japanese Skylarking obi; White Music back; and the (ultra-snazzy) Japanese Life Begins at the Hop cover!
April 12
Gerhard Satke has built a printable CD booklet for the Hinges CD from the Fuzzy Warbles series. Download and print yours today.
March 10
Nick Prol shared “This World Over” by anchormoth.
February 28
Brian O'Connor gives us a heads up on an interview he and his colleague did with Mr Partridge for episode 8 of their songwriting podcast, Sodajerker on Songwriting.
Volume 18, Number 10: May 11, 2012
May 19, 2012: Songs - XTC: "Shake You Donkey Up", XTC: "Reign of Blows (Vote No Violence!)", XTC: "Jump", XTC: "Here Comes President Kill Again", XTC: "Happy Families", XTC: "Gold", XTC: "Beating of Hearts", Andy Partridge: "Now We All Dead (It Doesn't Matter)"; Albums - XTC: Rag & Bone Buffet - Rare Cuts & Leftovers, XTC: Go 2, XTC: Fossil Fuel - The XTC Singles 1977-92, Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles, XTC: Apple Venus Volume 1; Discography - Brits In The 80s – A Celebration of British Pop Throughout the Decade; Press - “The Brit List: Five Great XTC Songs Every Household Should Own”, BBC America, May 17, 2012
April 28, 2012: Songs - Andy Partridge: "I'm Unbecome"; Gallery - “Pic Of XTC's ANDY PARTRIDGE by John ‘ASA’ SHEARLAW On Location in Sydney Australia”, Record Mirror, October 11, 1980, “ANDY PARTRIDGE of XTC. Pic: PENNIE SMITH”, New Musical Express, October 21, 1978; Discography - Erica Wexler: Sunlit Night, Blur: Blur 21: The Box
April 24, 2012: Gallery - “Andy Partridge sucks/pic by Pennie Smith”, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
April 21, 2012: Albums - XTC: White Music; Songs - XTC: "Life Begins at the Hop"; Albums - XTC: Skylarking, XTC: English Settlement
April 19, 2012: Gallery - Rag & Bone Buffet CD booklet, Go 2 CD booklet, Fossil Fuel CD booklet, Apple Venus Volume 1 CD booklet, Japanese Life Begins At The Hop 7" cover, UK English Settlement LP back cover, UK English Settlement LP front cover, Obi from Japanese LP of Skylarking, back cover of the Japanese CD of White Music, UK White Music LP back cover, UK Go 2 LP back cover, GO+ back cover, cover of GO+ EP
April 18, 2012: Gallery - Hinges CD booklet
April 8, 2012: Discography - Billy Sherwood: The Prog Collective
Chalkhills is a web resource and mail list dedicated
to XTC (the now defunct band). Surf Chalkhills to find a wealth of
information about XTC, their music and recordings, and much more. Chalkhills was created by me, John Relph, and is
infrequently updated (I am often busy with other things) so check back often.
Chalkhills is the both the longest extant XTC mailing list, created in April
1989 as an offshoot of the venerable Love-Hounds list, and the longest extant
XTC web site, first hacked together in May 1994, although FTP archives were
first made available in April 1991.
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