XTC, 34 Years Ago

[tinhuviel]

It boggles my mind that this footage still exists, and in such excellent shape. Here's a very young XTC performing songs on French television. The footage is circa 1978 and features a very young Andrews on a very abused saxophone. Andy Partridge is already exhibiting what a brilliant individual he would later on become. I needn't say that about Andrews.

Comments

[paisley-daze.livejournal.com]

Love, LOVE, the sax. And B does a good job of squeezing some musical stuff out of it. It's a difficult instrument which he appears to have wrangled at a relatively tender age. That's impressive. Too bad the audio is not synched up to the video but for 1978? It's pretty amazing.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Near the end of his association with XTC, B would often pull out the sax and play that instead of keyboards. It's rumoured that he did this just to piss Andy off. Who knows? :)

[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

XTC is one of my big faves, and one other of the writers here is also a huge XTC fan...

I sing '1000 umbrellas' to myself at least once a week. We're all light, Summer's Cauldron, Grass, Earn Enough for Us, Senses working overtime, and my personal fave 'another satellite'

Zu

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Whooooaaaa! 'Another Satellite' is my favourite of theirs. And 'My Bird Performs.' That is just a ridiculously lovely song.