Chalkhills: This World Over

Updated: 3 August 2024

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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!

Other News

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

March 1, 2025: Discography - Chris Braide & Andy Partridge: Queen of the Planet Wow! – The Songs of Andy Partridge + Chris Braide, Musical Phrases Chapter Two – October 1984
October 6, 2024: Songs - XTC: "The Troubles", XTC: "The Meeting Place", XTC: "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul", XTC: "That's Really Super, Supergirl", XTC: "Summer's Cauldron", XTC: "Season Cycle", XTC: "Sacrificial Bonfire", XTC: "Mermaid Smiled", XTC: "Little Lighthouse", XTC: "Let's Make a Den", XTC: "Grass", XTC: "Extrovert", XTC: "Earn Enough for Us", XTC: "Dying", XTC: "Dear God", XTC: "Big Day", XTC: "Ballet for a Rainy Day", XTC: "Another Satellite", XTC: "1000 Umbrellas"
October 1, 2024: Songs - Andy Partridge: "Ghost Train"
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)"