In 1977, XTC were signed by Virgin Records.

On 2 April 1982, a Friday night, XTC were scheduled to play at the Palladium in Hollywood, California, but did not appear.

Although the pairing of XTC and Rundgren was highly anticipated by fans, the sessions were less than enjoyable for the band.

It is some measure of how fond of him the XTC fanbase were that they slammed Moulding & Partridge for forcing his departure on the band's official forum — and some measure of their mutual respect for their fans and Gregory that the criticism went uncensored.

Other UK artists of the late 1970s commonly identified as power pop were the new wave bands XTC and Elvis Costello & The Attractions.

Duran Duran, Marianne Faithfull, Wet Wet Wet, Jeff Beck, Barbara Dickson, Alison Moyet, The Supernaturals, Radiohead, Nektar and XTC were also clients.

New Wave, however, and many punk bands who were a major influence on its development, such as Blondie, Television, and XTC eschewed this political aspect of punk.

In fact, Levitation's influences were diverse and included Cardiacs, Krautrock, Television, XTC, Killing Joke, Wire, Zappa, Swans, Devo, Gentle Giant, Faust, Public Image Limited, Echo & the Bunnymen and Julian Cope.

The initial sessions for his debut – three songs recorded with Gus Dudgeon ( Elton John, XTC )-proved unsuccessful and were scrapped.

Clips were also taken from a concert in Fréjus, Var, France with The Police, XTC, Skafish and UB40 among others.

The songs were stripped back to acoustic arrangements with lithe shaker rhythms achieved by gathering a parade of singers from all over the world ( six French, one Brazilian and one New Yorker ) to cover bands including XTC, Modern English, The Clash, Joy Division, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, and The Undertones.

Amongst the editions wiped were those featuring appearances by Blondie, XTC, Trumpton creator Gordon Murray, and numerous cast and crew members of Doctor Who.

New Wave became a catch-all term, encompassing disparate styles such as 2 Tone ska, the mod revival inspired by The Jam, the sophisticated pop-rock of Elvis Costello and XTC, the New Romantic phenomenon typified by Ultravox, synthpop groups like Tubeway Army ( which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band ) and Human League, and the sui generis subversions of Devo, who had gone " beyond punk before punk even properly existed ".

New Wave band XTC published records under the pseudonym, The Dukes of Stratosphear from 1985. and even Gothic rock band The Damned incorporated psychedelic music.

It was a frantic chunk of power pop with buzzsaw guitar and manic Farfisa organ, bearing the clear influence of English New Wave acts like XTC and Buzzcocks, and marking a significant change in their musical style, away from the ethereal, densely arranged epics of yore, and back to Tim's first love: simple, concise, accessible, high-energy guitar pop.

Strongly influenced by the New Wave sound of 1980s bands XTC, The Clash, and Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the new lineup, with Steve on vocals, quickly released a series of 7 " singles and toured extensively in Canada and the American Pacific Northwest, joining up with similarly-styled indie rock bands such as Les Savy Fav, The French Kicks, Radio 4, Ima Robot, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and opening for established Canadian rockers Sloan on a national tour.

Many international acts who would otherwise have gone largely unheard on Australian commercial radio, gained important exposure in Australia on Countdown through their music videos ; the list includes many UK " New Wave " acts, such as XTC, The Beat, Elvis Costello, The Specials, Lene Lovich, Joe Jackson, and The Cure, and US acts such as The Ramones and The Cars.

The band is influenced by New Wave and post-punk bands such as Gang of Four, Devo, XTC, Wire, and Fugazi.

Influences include what used to be called “ college rock ,” alternative rock, and New Wave — things along the lines of Talking Heads, R. E. M., They Might Be Giants, U2, The Cure, XTC, Cake, early The Police.

In 2010, Andy Partridge, former frontman of the British New wave band XTC released a limited edition CD of music inspired by Powers ' art titled POWERS.

For the first ten years of 120 Minutes, viewers could see artists as varied as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bronski Beat, New Order, The Replacements, The Verve, James, Slowdive, Weezer, Robyn Hitchcock, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Blur, Butthole Surfers, Radiohead, KMFDM, Kate Bush, Ramones, XTC, Morrissey, The Smashing Pumpkins, Kitchens of Distinction, Sarah McLachlan, They Might Be Giants, Dinosaur Jr., Rage Against The Machine, Hüsker Dü, The Offspring, and Bad Religion.

Finn Andrews, son of XTC / Shriekback keyboardist Barry Andrews, spent his teens playing in folk bands in Auckland, New Zealand.

The movie features a soundtrack of punk rock and New Wave music with a wide range of artists including The Ramones, The Cure, XTC, Lou Reed, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Suzi Quatro, Roxy Music, Robin Gibb & Marcy Levy, Patti Smith and The Pretenders.

By comparison with modern studios the recording equipment was very basic ; however, it still attracted acts such as The Vibrators, XTC, Stadium Dogs, Van Morrison, Alan Clayson and The New Seekers.

The album, Take Away / The Lure of Salvage, featured dub reconstructions of music from the preceding XTC albums.

The audience milled about the open festival floor for a long 45 minutes / hour after opening act Oingo Boingo departed the stage, and then finally it was announced that XTC would not take the stage due to the " illness " of one of the band members ( later revealed as Andy Partridge's ongoing fight with stage fright in Chris Twomey's book XTC: Chalkhills and Children ).

Over the years Geffen Records / DGC has become well known as a label, releasing works by the likes of Olivia Newton-John, Asia with Steve Howe and John Wetton, Elton John, Cher, Sonic Youth, Aerosmith, XTC, Peter Gabriel, Lone Justice, Blink-182, Guns N ' Roses, Nirvana, Lifehouse, Pat Metheny, Sloan, The Stone Roses and Neil Young.

Hipgnosis was an English art design group based in South Kensington, London that specialised in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands, most notably Pink Floyd, T. Rex, The Pretty Things, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC / DC, Scorpions, Yes, The Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, ELO & XTC.

In 1986, TeeVee Toons was shortened to TVT Records, a label that would sign and / or develop musical acts over the next couple of decades such as: The Saints, Shona Laing, Nine Inch Nails, the Connells, Aphex Twin, Tackhead, Underworld, Gravity Kills, Buck-O-Nine, Jurassic Five, Sevendust, Default, XTC, Guided By Voices, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes, Bounty Killer, KMFDM, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Gil Scott-Heron, Tha Eastsidaz, Just Jack, Lil Jon, Ying Yang Twins, Pitbull, Teedra Moses, and Ambulance LTD.

Burleigh Drummond drummed for roots CCM supergroup Lost Dogs for several albums and then started a group, Tin Drum, with his wife, Mary Harris, a singer / songwriter who has worked with Pink Floyd, XTC, Stanley Clarke and Jimmy Buffett.

The remaining eleven tracks included collaborations with Johnette Napolitano ( Concrete Blonde ), Michael Hutchence ( INXS ), Debbie Harry ( Blondie ), Andy Partridge ( XTC ), Shaun Ryder ( Happy Mondays / Black Grape ) and others.

Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC, Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish ( 1993 ), Parklife ( 1994 ) and The Great Escape ( 1995 ).

These included pop bands like XTC, Squeeze and Nick Lowe, the electronic rock of Gary Numan as well as songwriters like Elvis Costello, rock & roll influenced bands like the Pretenders, the reggae influenced music of bands like The Police, as well as bands of the ska revival like The Specials and Madness.

The pop band XTC referred to Chiddingfold House under their moniker ' The Dukes Of Stratosphear ' in their song The Mole From The Ministry.

It inspired the song " English Roundabout ", a pop song by the Swindon band XTC, which was recorded for their 1982 album English Settlement.

These included pop bands like XTC, Squeeze and Nick Lowe, the electronic rock of Gary Numan as well as songwriters like Elvis Costello, rock & roll influenced bands like the Pretenders, the reggae influenced music of bands like The Police, as well as bands of the ska revival like The Specials and Madness.

* " Jason and the Argonauts ", a song by British pop group XTC on their album English Settlement

While living in England, Brava studied, played and recorded pop rock music with Dave Gregory ( the lead guitarist for XTC ), Chris Blackwell ( drummer for Robert Plant ) and Charlie Jones ( bass player for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page ), under the guidance of Craig Leon ( producer for The Ramones and Blondie ), in addition to having her own pop rock band Violators.

A novelty single was released in 1987 for Viz and its Buster Gonad character by the band XTC as " Johnny Japes and His Jesticles ".

Keyboard player Jonathan Perkins followed, replaced by Barry Andrews in 1976, and the band finally settled on a name: XTC.

Since then, XTC became exclusively a studio band, apart from occasional live-to-air performances from radio stations, and a handful of TV appearances.

Later in 1984, the members of XTC created their alter-ego, " The Dukes of Stratosphear " ( a suggested band name that the group had considered when they first formed ).

What was not mentioned at the time was that the cutting back of his involvement in the new XTC recordings, ( the string arrangements having been taken over by Andy Partridge ), meant considerably fewer " points " in the calculation of royalties ; as Gregory never wrote any songs for the band, this put a significant dent in his potential income from the album, basically reducing his payments to that of a session musician.

The 2005 inclusion in Apple Box of the first new XTC tracks in five years (" Spiral ", written by Partridge and " Say It ", by Moulding ), offered hope that the band might continue.

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Although sceptical of Albarn's new manifesto for the band, Balfe gave assent for the band's choice of Andy Partridge of the band XTC to produce their follow-up to Leisure.

Although sceptical of Albarn's new manifesto for the band, Balfe gave assent for the band's choice of Andy Partridge of the band XTC to produce their follow-up to Leisure.

Dystheistic sentiment has also made its way into popular music, evincing itself in controversial songs like " Dear God " by the band XTC ( later covered by Sarah McLachlan ) and " Blasphemous Rumours " by Depeche Mode, which tells the story of a teenage girl who attempted suicide, survived, and turned her life over to God, only to be hit by a car, wind up on life support, and eventually die.

In 1995, Joe Jackson contributed his version of " Statue of Liberty " on a tribute album to the English band XTC called " A Testimonial Dinner ".

One of the biggest influences for Brad Roberts was the band XTC and Andy Partridge in particular.

The band even went on to cover two of XTC's songs: " The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead " for the soundtrack to the film Dumb and Dumber, and " All You Pretty Girls " for the XTC tribute album A Testimonial Dinner.

Manning's interest was sparked by the fact that Falkner was the only musician in the entire classified section to mention the band XTC.

It demonstrated the wide range of influences which the new band drew on, drawing heavily from the Paisley Underground, Queen, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, XTC, Cheap Trick, Wings, and Badfinger.

Musicians which the band have cited as Cardiacs influences include XTC, Van der Graaf Generator, Gong, early Split Enz, Gentle Giant, Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, early Genesis, Deaf School and Wire.