"Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding formed which Swindon band, whose albums include ""Drums and Wire,"" ""Oranges and Lemons"" and ""English Settlement""?"
"theme music to the short-lived TV comedy ""Wonderfalls"". In 2006, a song he and Robyn Hitchcock collaborated on ""Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)"", was released on the Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 album ""Olé! Tarantula"". Partridge mixed recordings for the band Captains of Industry. In 2007, Partridge released music as part of a trio known as Monstrance, made up of Andy on guitar, Barry Andrews (an early member of XTC) on keyboards, and Martyn Barker on drums. The group has released an album of the same name, as well as a download-only EP known as ""Fine Wires Humming a"
"bout of depression, while working as an assistant at a local record shop in Swindon. Gregory was played the Mahavishnu Orchestra's album ""The Inner Mounting Flame"" (1971), which he later called ""one of the watershed moments in my musical education."" Partridge met Colin Moulding at the shop in that same year. Moulding had been playing bass since 1970 ""because I liked music [and] I thought that playing a bass, with four strings, would be infinitely easier than playing a guitar, with six strings. That was a horrible misconception!"". At the end of 1972, Moulding and drummer Terry Chambers joined Partridge's"
"but Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding were persuaded to divide it into two releases, with the orchestral material on Apple Venus Volume 1 and the other songs on ""Wasp Star"". By this stage, guitarist and singer Andy Partridge and bassist and singer Colin Moulding were the only two band members left. The duo therefore utilised session musicians on every track to fill in the musical elements that they were incapable of performing themselves. Partridge's daughter Holly made her singing debut on record singing backup vocals in the song ""Playground""; she now sings and plays guitar in the English pop-rock group"
"asked on ""English Settlement"". ... Colin Moulding gets philosophy-weird and Andy Partridge sounds depressed; the direction of the band seems blurred."" Within weeks of the album's release, the band's finances were depleted and further payments of advancements and royalties were frozen on account of the Reid litigation, forcing the group to subsist on short-term loans from Virgin. Partridge then conceived of a cheaply-budgeted project in which the group adopted pseudonyms and recorded several songs faithful to the style of 1960s psychedelia. The end product, ""25 O'Clock"" (1985), was publicised as a collection of recordings by an older band called ""the"
"Lord from Deep Purple; fuzz box, wah wah pedal, bluesy runs. I said, You don't have to play like that, you can play like us if you want. The next rehearsal, he was like a maniac, like if Miró had played electric organ. Fantastic."" December 1976 officially marked the beginning of the Partridge–Moulding–Chambers–Andrews line-up. Ian Reid, owner of a Swindon club named The Affair, was their first manager and brokered deals for the group to perform at more popular venues such as the Red Cow in Hammersmith, The Nashville Rooms and Islington's Hope And Anchor. By this time, the punk"
"""completely fresh directions"". Of these, ""King for a Day"" and ""The Loving"" were the album's ""most overtly commercial songs"". In the analysis of music writer Richard Walls: Partridge acknowledged that it was their first work in which they were conscious that they had a record-buying audience, particularly in the US. External stresses affecting the group included their ongoing litigation against former manager Ian Reid. Colin Moulding remembered, ""it was about to come to a head, and that was the worrying thing ... If we hadn't had a relatively successful record with ""Oranges and Lemons"" at that time, we would have"
"exchanged via their manager to discuss the division of the band's assets. Partridge also said he and Gregory — their differences now resolved — had considered working together again. In July 2008, Partridge wrote in the ""Swindon Advertiser"" that he believed his ""musical partnership with Colin Moulding has come to an end. For reasons too personal and varied to go into here, but we had a good run as they say and produced some real good work. No, I won't be working with him in the future."" In December, Moulding resurfaced for a live radio interview where he confirmed his"
"Stackridge Stackridge were a British rock group which had its greatest success in the early 1970s. Stackridge Lemon was formed from the remains of Grytpype Thynne by Andy Davis and James ""Crun"" Walter during 1969 in the Bristol/Bath area of the United Kingdom. After initial experimentation, the word ""Lemon"" was dropped from the band's name. The band played its first London gig at The Temple in Wardour Street on 6 February 1970. Stackridge were the opening and closing act at the first Glastonbury Festival between 19 September and 20 September 1970. During 1970 the band shared a communal flat as"
"to which Wilson tersely replied ""Yeah."" A couple of Partridge's rejected ""Skylarking"" songs were offered for ""Oranges & Lemons"", but were again rejected. He said: ""Maybe it was fate that they wouldn't rise up. They are probably too weak and best left to die."" ""The Good Things"", a ""Pet Sounds""-influenced Moulding song demoed for ""Oranges & Lemons"", was passed for inclusion. In 1995, a new recording was released that year for the tribute album """". Moulding: ""If you can imagine a father reading from a book called ""The Good Things In Life"" to his children at bedtime, that just about"
"Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) is an XTC compilation album which includes Mr Partridge's ""Take Away/The Lure of Salvage"" LP and the ""Go +"" EP. Recorded during sessions on various breaks for the albums ""Drums and Wires"" and ""Black Sea"", the album consists of remixes with additional overdubs and sometimes new vocals recorded by Andy Partridge. The material consists of tracks recorded for the band's first three albums. Partridge would also occasionally write new lyrics for some of the compositions included here as well. All songs by Andy Partrdige except as indicated."
"Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78-80 (1990) is an XTC compilation album which includes Mr Partridge's ""Take Away/The Lure of Salvage"" LP and the ""Go +"" EP. Recorded during sessions on various breaks for the albums ""Drums and Wires"" and ""Black Sea"", the album consists of remixes with additional overdubs and sometimes new vocals recorded by Andy Partridge. The material consists of tracks recorded for the band's first three albums. Partridge would also occasionally write new lyrics for some of the compositions included here as well. All songs by Andy Partrdige except as indicated."
"album is primarily pop and rock, although a variety of other styles are plundered throughout, such as jazz, reggae, hard rock, Middle Eastern music and Zairean soukous. All of the songs were written by guitarist Andy Partridge, except three by bassist Colin Moulding. The work projected brighter, more upbeat and aggressive moods than ""Skylarking"", and the harsher effect positioned the group closer to the sound of their earlier records. Lyrically, most of the songs focus on parent-child relationships and the state of world affairs. Partridge's ornate vision for the psychedelic opening track ""Garden of Earthly Delights"" exemplified the album's general"
"of previously unreleased material by the band, including early versions of many of the songs later released on ""Swaddling Songs"". Some of these sessions featured Richard Coughlan of Caravan on drums, although his sessions do not feature on ""The Virgin Prophet"". In 1996, Simonds recorded ""Six Elementary Songs"", released in 1997 on the Tokyo-based Evangel Records. In 1999, Simonds recorded a version of Syd Barrett's setting of the James Joyce poem ""Golden Hair"" for Russell Mills' album, ""Pearl and Umbra"". 2006-7 saw the participation of Simonds in a musical project called Fovea Hex, alongside Brian Eno, Roger Eno, film composer"
"expressed fondness for the sleeve to the Who's ""A Quick One"" (1966), while the lettering was inspired by Andy Williams' ""Love, Andy"" (1967). Its cover illustration was intended to resemble the work of Heinz Edelmann, the art director for the 1968 Beatles film ""Yellow Submarine"", and is reflective of the substantial portion of the album that pays homage to the Beatles' psychedelic period. Released on 27 February 1989 in the UK and one day later in the US, ""Oranges & Lemons"" became their highest-charting album since ""English Settlement"", rising to number 28 in the UK and number 44 in the"
"splitting in 1981. In 2010 New York label Sing Sing Records unearthed unreleased Polydor recordings for an album that never happened and released them on vinyl as Strange Obsessions. This prompted renewed interest in the band. Original members Aidan Murtagh and David McMaster reformed the band with new members Norman Boyd on bass and Gordie Walker on drums. In the interests of accuracy, however, prior to Norman Boyd's addition in 2013 the reformed Protex played for a period of three years with the line up of Aidan Murtagh (vocals, guitar), David McMaster (guitar, vocals), Gordie Walker (drums) and Andrew Curliss"
"of 1999’s best records"". Scott Schinder gave the album an A- for ""Entertainment Weekly"", writing: ""The gorgeous yet vaguely unsettling arrangements are well suited to the exquisitely flawed humanism of Andy Partridge’s and Colin Moulding’s compositions, lending an appropriately uneasy edge to bittersweet tunes like 'I Can’t Own Her,' 'Greenman,' and 'The Last Balloon.'"" In comparing the album to the group's earlier work, ""Pitchfork""s Zach Hooker said: """"Apple Venus"" finds them picking up pretty much where they left off. Or maybe even a little bit before they left off."" Stylistically, he regarded the album as the middle point between ""Oranges"
"Aldridge"". These two singles, plus three tracks from a BBC recording, were issued on the 'Hux' label as ""Live and on Song"" in April 2006. At the end of 2006 a number of Skid Row demo tapes featuring Phil Lynott were discovered. These were his earliest recordings (from 1968) and had been presumed lost for decades. With the returning Bridgeman, Skid Row played support to some of the great rock groups of the 1960s, including Fleetwood Mac in January 1970. Moore was influenced by the Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green, who was in turn impressed by Moore's guitar playing and"
"whom he had previously performed in Dublin, about playing the arrangements and the quartet agreed to a recording session at Studio Two in London's Abbey Road Studios. Gregory was invited to conduct the quartet during the sessions. Gregory also wrote the string arrangement for the song I Want You Back in My Life which appeared on ""Jollity"". This led to Gregory introducing Walsh to Andy Partridge, following which Partridge went on to co-write the song ""Anchor"" with Walsh. The album would also feature contributions from US artists Eric Matthews, Graham Hopkins (ex-Therapy?), Johnny Boyle (The Frames), Duncan Maitland (formerly of"
"Aldridge. The album was mastered by Doug Doyle at Digital Brothers, Costa Mesa, California. On this album the band's line-up consisted of the quartet Eric Clayton (vocals), Jeff Clayton (guitar), Dean Forsyth (bass), and Samuel West (drums). Bob Watson played piano, keyboard and conducted the orchestration, and backing vocals were sung by Jimmy P. Brown II (Deliverance), Love Larrimore, Riki Michelle, and Terry Taylor. Musically, the album showcases a combination of progressive metal, symphonic metal and gothic metal. The song structures are complicated and feature extensive guitar solos that present melodies reminiscent of Middle Eastern music. Eric Clayton's vocals are"
"CD, along with the EP ""Go+"". Take Away / The Lure of Salvage Take Away and The Lure of Salvage are sides one and two of the debut album by English musician Andy Partridge (credited to ""Mr. Partridge""), released in February 1980 on Virgin Records. The LP consists of dub remixes of tracks originally recorded by XTC. Even though no other XTC member was involved with the album's making, Partridge does not personally consider it a solo effort. In Japan, the record was hailed as a work of ""electronic genius"" and outsold all other XTC albums. Andy took existing XTC"
"XTC discography XTC released 12 original albums and over 30 singles for Virgin Records, between 1977 and 1992. They signed to Cooking Vinyl for their final two albums in 1999 and 2000. The ""Fuzzy Warbles"" series is a collection of demos and sketches from Andy Partridge's tape archive. They do not include any of Colin Moulding's songs and are produced and compiled by Partridge. The name was probably inspired by a line from ""A Clockwork Orange"", when Alex asks a girl in a record shop if she has anything at home to play her ""fuzzy warbles"" on. Instead, he invites"
"their beliefs. How could that make them so ""violent"", potentially?"" Although Partridge is an atheist, he believes that heaven and hell exist metaphorically. ""Season Cycle"", another song from ""Skylarking"", included the couplet ""Everybody says, Join our religion, get to heaven / I say, no thanks, why bless my soul, I'm already there!"" He returned to biblical themes for ""Garden of Earthly Delights"", a children's guide to the world that served as the opening track on their follow-up album, ""Oranges & Lemons"" (1989). Explaining the lyric ""do what you want to do / just don't hurt nobody"", he said: ""I'm sure"
"a Kaleidoscope"" and ""We Laugh Indoors"" reached numbers 115 and 122 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. In 2003 there was yet another change of drummer with Jason McGerr, who had previously played in the band Eureka Farm with Gibbard and Harmer, joining the band. McGerr's debut came with the band's next release, their fourth album ""Transatlanticism"", which was released in October 2003. The album received critical acclaim and launched the band into mainstream commercial success, with the two singles ""The Sound of Settling"" and ""Title and Registration"", appearing in the soundtracks of the television shows ""The O.C."", ""Six Feet"
"invited Moulder to engineer their live sounds and, eventually, to engineer their 1989 album ""Automatic"". The album's production was praised for its combination of thick, noisy guitar with a polished, listener-friendly tone, and the Mary Chain's former label, Creation Records, soon had Moulder producing records for Ride, My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver. Selected production credits: Moulder is married to former Curve lead singer Toni Halliday. Alan Moulder Alan Moulder is an English record producer, mixing engineer and audio engineer. Moulder was born 11 June 1959 in Boston, Lincolnshire and educated at Boston Grammar School. From an early age, he had"
"interest in working with him at some point during the 1970s. Bowie recorded a cover of ""See Emily Play"" on his 1973 album ""Pin Ups"". The track ""Grass"", from XTC's album ""Skylarking"" was influenced when Andy Partridge let fellow band member Colin Moulding borrow his Barrett records. Robyn Hitchcock's career was dedicated to being Barrett-esque; he even played ""Dominoes"" for the 2001 BBC documentary ""The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story"". Barrett also had an influence on alternative and punk music in general. According to critic John Harris: To understand his place in modern music you probably have to first"
"Don Partridge Donald Eric Partridge (27 October 1941 – 21 September 2010) was an English singer and songwriter, known as the ""king of the buskers"". He performed from the early 1960s first as a folk singer and later as a busker and one-man band, and achieved unexpected commercial success in the UK and Europe in the late 1960s with the songs ""Rosie"", ""Blue Eyes"" and ""Breakfast On Pluto"". He later was a founder of the group Accolade, which released two albums. He continued writing music, playing, busking and recording, mainly as a solo artist, until 2008. Partridge was born in"
"Neil Codling Neil John Codling (born 5 December 1973) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the keyboardist and backing vocalist for the alternative rock band Suede. Neil Codling was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon and studied English and Drama at Hull University. He and the drummer of Suede, Simon Gilbert, are cousins. In the autumn of 1995, Codling joined the band as a keyboardist and backing vocalist whilst recording their third album, ""Coming Up"". His first appearance for Suede took place in Hanover Grand, on a secret fanclub gig on 27 January 1996, while his first public performance with"
"the Sessions@AOL performance. In 2004, the label included ""Senses Working Overtime"" in the first compilation of Mandy Moore, ""The Best of Mandy Moore"". Later, in 2007, included the single in the deluxe edition of the second artist compilation album, ""Super Hits"". Although Moore performed this song live on Sessions@AOL, the video was not used to promote the song. The video is available on Moore's DVD ""The Best of Mandy Moore"". Senses Working Overtime ""Senses Working Overtime"" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released as the lead single from their 1982 album ""English Settlement""."
"and Lemons"" and ""Skylarking"", calling ""Apple Venus"" ""a little nestegg of excellent songs"". ""Rolling Stone""s Barry Walters wrote that the LP ""packs the wit and nerve that made their rock snap but does it with brass, acoustic guitars, violins, woodwinds and minimal percussion. ... instead of evoking the Sixties, Partridge and Moulding suggest a timeless pastoral past rich with melody and subtlety."" AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted: ""Although there are similarities with the pastoral ""Skylarking"" or parts of ""Nonsuch"", there is really no comparable record in XTC's canon, given its sustained mood, experimentalism, and glimpses of confession ... [""Apple Venus""]"
"Positive in Swindon and works with the charity Liver4Life to raise awareness of hepatitis C. In February 2012 he joined the Simon Townshend band for the 'Secret Weapon' UK tour in support of the album ""Looking Out, Looking In"". He is a Freemason and is a member of Westminster City School Lodge no. 4305 Phil Spalding Philip Spalding (born 19 November 1957, London, England) is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars. He has played and appeared with performing artists such as Mick Jagger, Seal, Orchestral Manoeuvres in"
"at the time. The label, although skeptical, loaned the group £5,000, and two weeks were spent on the album's recording and mixing at Chapel Lane Studios in Hereford, England. The project was planned as a full-length LP, but only six songs could be recorded due to time constraints. Partridge looked back on its making as the ""most fun we ever had in the studio."" Each musician adopted a pseudonym: ""Sir John Johns"" (Partridge) ""Lord Cornelius Plum"" (Dave), ""The Red Curtain"" (Colin Moulding) and ""E.I.E.I. Owen"" (Ian). Partridge's moniker came from a 1967 DC Comics martian character, while Moulding's was derived"
"Andy Votel Andrew ""Andy Votel"" Shallcross (born 4 November 1975 in Marple Bridge, Stockport) is an English musician, DJ, record producer, graphic designer and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and the reissue label Finders Keepers Records. Votel began making music in the late 1980s as the youngest member of the group Violators of the English Language (from which the VOTEL stage name is derived). The group appeared on the Howard Jacobson BBC documentary Think of England in 1991 performing a rap song with a young DJ Semtex as a backing dancer. Violators of the English Language failed to gain label"
"release in 2012. On 29 September in Wolverhampton, Stampede will be playing at the Denim and Leather NWOBHM festival at the Slade Rooms alongside Praying Mantis, Weapon, Gaskin and Agincourt. Stampede today consists of original founding members Reuben and Laurence Archer and Colin Bond, along with new additions Chris Clowsley (guitar) and drummer Stevie G (Steve Graystone). In 2010, during the recording of new studio album ""A Sudden Impulse"", Laurence became unavailable for recording for a period of time due to work commitments. As a result, the band brought in guitarist Rob Wolverson for outstanding writing and recording duties. Stampede"