Big O have also posted an excellent quality FM broadcast XTC concert from Ann Arbor . . . . . .

XTC - ANN ARBOR 1980

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XTC
Ann Arbor 1980 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI; January 22, 1980. Very good FM broadcast.

Thanks to JEMS; original uploader weedwacker67; and to arpo67 for keeping the show alive at Dime.

arpo67 noted:

XTC is probably the best kept secret when it comes to pop rock being a band that should have had greater commercial successes than they had. This is one of those bands a lot of people have heard of but not actually heard outside the fans and music critics. This show captures XTC touring in support of the Drums And Wire album as an opening act for The Police.

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Lineage:
master cassette of FM b-cast > Nakamichi 670 azimuth-adjusted playback > Wavelab 24/96 > Sox 16/44 > flac

As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD

64 mins

Lineup:

Andy Partridge - guitar, vocals

Dave Gregory - guitar

Colin Moulding - bass, vocals

Terry Chambers - drums

1. A Lifelong XTC fan - they are from a town near me. Bought pretty much everything they released up until Andy’s erm change in direction (read mental breakdown of 1982) but they are still around in one form or another (that other being Dukes of Stratosphere) The Apple Box stuff is worth checking out if you can get anything. XTC boots don’t come up that often. This is them at their peak and yet early enough to do the first single I ever heard in ‘Dance Band’ and the line up here includes one of my favourite drummers of all time in Terry Chambers. This is also Andy and Colin at their creative peak although English Settlement and future projects like Dukes of Stratosphere, Fuzzy Warbles and 'Coats of Many Cupboards are all worth checking but this is the band in their prime and two years away from Andy’s so called ‘breakdown’ in 82. They are still around and producing on occasion (they come from a town nearby) and Apple Box stuff is worth checking out if you can get it. They seem to have gone their separate ways now from all public pronouncements but we live in hope that Moulding and Partridge may still work together again.

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