A four CD tour of the days when BBC radio used to schedule XTC...
(Go see what TVT records have to say...)
Wildly packaged, the box set contains material from three live shows and two CDs worth of radio session materials. These session materials date from a time before the gang-show style of many Radio 1 broadcasts these days, where the nominal DJ is joined by a gang of sidekicks and the session band muck in with chat and live music. Most of the sessions included here were recorded during the day for broadcast later in the evening and it was rare for the band to even meet with the DJ on whose show they were scheduled. XTC have been absent from the UK airwaves for too long now; lets hope that with Apple Venus things will change. The track listing is as follows:
CD1: Studio Sessions
Intro
Life Begins At The Hop
Scarecrow People
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Ten Feet Tall
Garden Of Earthly Delights
When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
I'm Bugged
Another Satellite
You're The Wish You Are I Had
Crosswires
Roads Girdle The GlobeCD2: Studio Sessions
No Thugs In Our House
One Of The Millions
Real By Reel
The Meeting Place
Meccanic Dancing
Poor Skeleton Steps Out
Into The Atom Age
The Rhythm
This World Over
Snowman
Danceband
Making Plans For Nigel
Jason And The ArgonautsCD3: 1978/79 Live In Concert Recordings
Radios In Motion
Crosswires
Science Friction
Statue Of Liberty
The Rhythm
I'll Set Myself On Fire
New Town Animal In A Furnished Cage
All Along The Watchtower
Beatown
This Is Pop
Danceband
Neon ShuffleCD4: Live In Concert Hammersmith Palais 22/12/80
Life Begins At The Hop
Burning With Optimism's Flames
Love At First Sight
Respectable Street
No Language In Our Lungs
This Is Pop
Scissor Man
Towers Of London
Battery Brides
Living Through Another Cuba
Generals And Majors
Making Plans For Nigel
Are You Receiving Me?
