XTC fans!! Over here, quickly!

Chuffola

Make it your immediate business to watch the brand new XTC: This Is Pop documentary on Sky Arts. 

It's superb.

It'll be on catch up and, knowing Sky Arts, probably on repeat fairly regularly.

You're welcome.

kennedydream1980

I watched it last night, it was excellent.

Chuffola

Excellent selection of talking heads on it too - not the usual suspects.

Edit: Not Talking Heads, mind you.

Kebabkid

Missed it but hope to catch it.

Wonderful band who deserved more recognition.

neilg

Downloading it now.

EricTheWeary

It's on Now TV ( on demand). 

DiscoStu

Is there a way for us non Sky folk to see it?

blobb

ooh, did they happen to appear in 'minature' form?

Wazmeister

How strange...

Just flew back from Cyprus tonight, and had a music time in the plane when a load of XTC songs came on random !

Ill record the programme now. Cheers for the heads up.

Chuffola

blobb said:

ooh, did they happen to appear in 'minature' form?

Yes, yes they did. Little models on a model train.

DiscoStu said:

Is there a way for us non Sky folk to see it?

No idea. I dare say it could be found somewhere. Worth searching out.

blobb

Chuffola said:

blobb said:

ooh, did they happen to appear in 'minature' form?

Yes, yes they did. Little models on a model train.

Ha thought so. My mate made the models. .

EricTheWeary

DiscoStu said:

Is there a way for us non Sky folk to see it?

Simplest is you could get Now TV - £19.99 at the moment for the box and two months Entertainment, binge on Sky Arts programmes and box sets and use the box for the iPlayer,etc, once the passes have run out or buy monthly passes if you love it enough. Or hope someone sticks it on YouTube. 

mudslide73

What a band. 

Wazmeister

Superb documentary

AlexC

Great comic use of Rick Wakeman too! 

EricTheWeary

Well worth watching, I enjoyed that  

Stinkfoot

One of my favourite bands ever. Watched this twice over the weekend.  And a nice chunk of the documentary on the Dukes too! Some of those early clips had a lot of similarity to Cardiacs I thought - another band who could do no wrong in my eyes, and who had definitely name-checked XTC as an influence.

EricTheWeary

Stinkfoot said:

One of my favourite bands ever. Watched this twice over the weekend.  And a nice chunk of the documentary on the Dukes too! Some of those early clips had a lot of similarity to Cardiacs I thought - another band who could do no wrong in my eyes, and who had definitely name-checked XTC as an influence.

The Cardiacs got a big up on TPS - I think Dan from TPS/ The Gig Rig plays with an ex XTC member? It's all starting to fit together now...

Chuffola

Yep, Dan plays with Dave Gregory in Tin Spirits

pintspiller

Downloading now.

thisisguitar

Cheers for the heads up, I can't stop listening to them at the moment!