XTC - This Is Pop Documentary trailer

**insidious meme** · 03-04-2017

Catch it while you can.

http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...l=1#post680489

**Karda Estra** · 03-04-2017

Glorious.

Jefferson James · 03-04-2017

Anxious -- to the point of taking Valium -- to see this.

**chalkpie** · 03-04-2017

When does the full monty come out?

Jefferson James · 03-04-2017

Originally Posted by chalkpie

When does the full monty come out?

It's all a big secret, like my band for instance. Hopefully soon.

**polmico** · 03-04-2017

I have all the feelings about this.

**zombywoof** · 03-05-2017

Can't. Wait.

**insidious meme** · 03-05-2017

Originally Posted by KerryKompost

Anxious -- to the point of taking Valium -- to see this.

No, we don't want that. Look how Andy turned out.

**jazz2896** · 03-05-2017

Oh this will be great. This will probably be the thing that gets me to buy everything these guys ever touched. Worth it.

**2steves** · 03-05-2017

Love XTC especially their masterpiece Skylarking----love to see this. I saw them live a few times in small venues in the city before he developed full blown panic attacks. Great arty tasteful band.

**JKL2000** · 03-05-2017

How did you guys know about this?

**progeezer** · 03-05-2017

In this age of smart tvs, Netflix & Youtube, I have seriously not purchased or felt compelled to purchase a dvd in over 4 years.

This will probably change that.

**FrippWire** · 03-05-2017

XTC = autobuy

**philsunset** · 03-06-2017

I NEED this.

**proggy_jazzer** · 03-06-2017

Thanks to Mike Keneally's Wing Beat Fantastic I've started to dig into XTC, a band I always appreciated in the 80s but never actually bought anything of (I worked in a record store and heard most of the output often enough there to know it pretty well). I've been greatly enjoying everything I've purchased so far, plan to get the rest soon, and really can't wait to see this doc. Thanks for sharing!

**Bungalow Bill** · 03-06-2017

I haven't listened to XTC in a long time but they really were a superb band.

**miamiscot** · 03-06-2017

Can't wait.
XTC is life.
Trailer looks way cool too.

**Sunlight Caller** · 03-06-2017

That is the coolest wittiest trailer ever, I cannot wait for the main event!

**Paulrus** · 03-06-2017

About 20 years back I had a buddy who I'd go see prog gigs with (he turned me on to the Canterbury scene) who tried getting me into XTC and for whatever reason I just didn't want to know. Probably cuz every time we hooked up it would be around some fairly proggy-prog type activity and my head just wasn't in a space to deal with early 80s Brit-pop. As a teenager I dug the early radio hits ("Generals and Majors", "Making Plans for Nigel") but they were a somewhat distant memory by the 1990s.

But I had a vague suspicion that I'd like them so I persisted. And then one day not long ago I was surfing YouTube and gave Black Sea a listen and everything clicked. I now generally like most of what they've done, but am mainly a fan of the early 80s stuff.

It's a real shame that Colin Moulding couldn't deal with it anymore (though I have a feeling being around Andy Partridge is a test of anyone's patience), but it's encouraging that this many years on there's still a high level of appreciation.

**progholio** · 03-06-2017

It warms the heart to know Andy Partridge still works in the industry, can't wait to see this!

Originally Posted by Paulrus

As a teenager I dug the early radio hits ("Generals and Majors", "Making Plans for Nigel") but they were a somewhat distant memory by the 1990s.

Funny to think of Making Plans For Nigel as a radio hit, it has about the most unconventional drum beat for a pop song, and that outro vocal is just plain crazy. Man, i love that song!

**No Pride** · 03-08-2017

Big XTC fan here; can't wait!

**Craign** · 03-08-2017

What a diamond geezer, I'll be having some of this when it comes out

**Paulrus** · 03-08-2017

Originally Posted by progholio

Funny to think of Making Plans For Nigel as a radio hit, it has about the most unconventional drum beat for a pop song, and that outro vocal is just plain crazy.

Well, when I say "radio" I'm talking about KROQ in Los Angeles. They were a pioneer alternative station that would play weird stuff like XTC and Peter Gabriel in the late 70s/early 80s. I'm pretty sure the mainstream stations in LA like KLOS didn't touch XTC til much later.

**jake** · 03-08-2017

Funny that song is pretty much part of British culture now - as witnessed by this kid's tv show excerpt

And this headline from the Times of London

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/he...igel-kp2jv7hhz

And this from the Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo....html?ITO=1490