Mind you, I was a bit disappointed that he's not bothering with songwriting . But what the hey, whatever makes him happy.

Q.Dear Uncle Andy, I have been having fun with a tuning I haven't used before : C-G-C-G-C-D.

It's an extraordinarily 'choral' sort of sound, and I was wondering if you've ever tried it.

I even managed a nice version of Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' in this tuning, it would bring tears to your eyes. (Partridge: 'I'm sure it would.') anyway, keep us fans posted in XTC Forum Land at

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Trevor 'Keltik' Williams

A.Keltik,Keltik,his favourite diesel is a Deltic.

Never tried that tuning ol'sparrow but I’ll give it a whirl. It might be sometime until I get around to it though as I'm taking a big mental holiday from making my own music at the mo, IE; sick of songs.

Judee's KISS eh? That’ll have her spinning in her gravy no doubt. As for the back porch type thing, yes I’ve peaked in, seems like a nice boy etc.

I do hope, after the debacle with DIGITAL FOREST over our "lost" forum and its failure to rectify the problem, to get another forum up and running soon so all you kwazee kases can chat yourselves into a coma ad naseum. without having to feel a mere 22 inches high.

Drink enough water.
AP

Q. Greetings Has your musical partnership with Colin Moulding finally come to an end or do you hope to work with him again in the future? Regards Tim N Smiff Bristol (for my sins)

A. Verily, you must be the legendary Tim the insurer ,he who the mystic bardic travellers of Rorn tell of. Yes I believe my 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 Wear something white at night. AP

Everything decays.

Well, if it ain't the Swede Who Murdered Love!

With the Fish Who Murdered Noses!

Partridge has Blegvad, Hitchcock and Andrews to play with now.

Funny, but if you'd asked me to ponder which diesel train I was most fond of ( not something I'd ever bothered to think much about) I would have said the Deltic.

The first diesel train I ever saw was a Deltic. It was about 1962 or1963. Up until then the trains on our local branch lines were steam, pulling coal wagons from Ogmore, Garw and Llynfi valleys, past my then Junior School at Tondu.
Whenever they came past during playtimes, a mob of kids would rush to the school railings and cheer. They had a distinctive two-tone horn, which was what Mr. Truzzi would inform us was a perfect 4th interval ( D-G...that right, Truzz??) which I can still hear in my head. I can even remember the train numbers: D6945, D4985. That's not bad for 45 years ago. Now where did I put my glasses?
Good old Andy.

very good point indeed Terra.....

not to say even maybe people we've never linked Andy with in the past or even genres uncharted by him?

Don't you think it's great to just enjoy and discuss XTC's music without the need for another record now?......i quite like the fact there's this great big fat body of work that's not going to put any more weight on....looks great to me!

Fans are forever wanting more of the same,like pop junkies needing another hit......whatever period of XTC you loved there's always a part wishing a new record would have a little bit of an old record about it....well i know i did anyway.

i'm thinking of something different altogether nowadays....i'd just love to be surprised by something that was from a different part of Andy's head ......the 'famous' musical idea or a film score would be intersting or maybe a series of monthly download soundscapes as if written by commission for his favourite characters from time......something from outside the normal of the catchy pop song.....thats got to bore the artistic pants off someoe as creative as Andy......Colin seems to have been drowned by that feeelig first.

you know when you think about it there's not many people in the musical industry who keep on making original music after 30 years without repeating themselves,sounding like caricatures or touring really

Well call me old fashioned, but the catchy pop songs is what AP does best. I like Take Away and Go+ but then they came from catchy pop songs. Through the Hill and Monstrance type of things I can happily live without. But like he said XTC had a great run. Nothing lasts forever.