Chalkhills: The XTC Resource

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August 3, 2024: Skylarking: XTC’s most commercially successful album was, for many years, also its most mythical with tales of “lost” multi-track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented and an Anglophile super-producer that turned rather imperfect in personality terms but still resulted in a classic album. The second of XTC’s albums to be mixed in Dolby Atmos by Steven Wilson, 1986's Skylarking - sequenced and produced by the legendary Todd Rundgren - is perhaps the most acclaimed of all the band's releases. Mixed from the original multi-track studio master tapes and fully approved by XTC. To be released on September 27, 2024. Order yours today!

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January 6

Paul Tornbohm has contributed a transcription of the lyrics to “Things Fall To Bits”.

November 19

“Deze albums neemt Harke Jan van der Meulen mee naar een onbewoond eiland”.

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Recent Site Updates

September 7, 2024: Tributes - Wankwinkel: Mouldy Partridges; Covers - Wankwinkel: "We're All Lite", Wankwinkel: "War Dance", Wankwinkel: "Vanishing Girl", Wankwinkel: "Then She Appeared", Wankwinkel: "The Disappointed", Wankwinkel: "Senses Working Overtime", Wankwinkel: "Mayor of Simpleton", Wankwinkel: "Harvest Festival", Wankwinkel: "25 O'Clock (dub)"
August 15, 2024: Discography - The Old Grey Whistle Test – The UK's Legendary Live Music Show, The Old Grey Whistle Test Volumes 1, 2 & 3, The Best of The Old Grey Whistle Test
July 14, 2024: Discography - Return to the Dark Side of the Moon – A Tribute to Pink Floyd

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Chalkhills is a web resource dedicated to XTC (the now defunct band). Peruse 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 try to have a life) so check back often. Chalkhills was the longest extant XTC mailing list, created in April 1989 as an offshoot of the venerable Love-Hounds list and killed off (in a bizarre kitchen accident, of course) in August 2014. Chalkhills is the longest extant XTC web site, first hacked together in May 1994, although FTP archives were first made available in April 1991.