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Interviews and discussions about XTC, from White Music to Wasp Star and beyond
In a Record Store Day exclusive, XTC are releasing Live Boots , a double-LP recording of their gig at Emerald City, New Jersey, on 17 April...
Fireball XL5, All Along the Watchtower, Cut It Out, Go+, Take Away/The Lure of Salvage, Living Through Another Cuba … There are more – and t...
The first episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast of 2026 includes not one but two interviews. The first is with photographe...
Twenty-five years after its release, Wasp Star remains XTC’s final statement. So how does the album stand up? Is it underrated? Is it neglec...
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we return to the 2025 XTC Fan Festival to hear Ian Gregory who, unde...
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we return to the 2025 XTC Fan Festival to hear engineer and producer...
This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features a fascinating conversation with Stu Rowe recorded at the 2025 XTC Fan...
This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features a highly entertaining conversation between XTC guitarist Dave Gregory...
In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we join Alfredo Marziano , the author of the newly published XTC: Skylarkin...
It’s fan festival time again. Coming up on 20–22 June at the Mecca in Swindon, the sold-out 2025 XTC Fan Festival is a chance for friends ol...
Twenty-five years after their final album, XTC continue to inspire new generations of musicians. In this episode of What Do You Call That No...
How much further up the charts would Senses Working Overtime have climbed if the sleeve had been made of heavier material? What does the fin...
To commemorate the death of Rick Buckler on 17 February 2025, this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features an inter...
Darryl Bullock was a massive fan of XTC, an avid record collector and one of the tireless organisers of the online and in-person XTC fan con...
In this edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , we go behind the scenes to see how deals get signed, press releases get wr...
In the second of a special two-part edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , supporters on Patreon ask questions they had a...
Ace remixer Steven Wilson has already given XTC’s 1986 album Skylarking a 5.1 surround sound makeover and now he has gone one step further w...
In the first of a special two-part edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , supporters on Patreon ask questions they had al...
From handing a tape to John Peel to encouraging Colin Moulding to write songs, Steve Warren is a key part of the XTC story. In a fascinating...
XTC fans were out in force at the Neo-Ancients festival in Stroud, Gloucestershire on Saturday 4 May 2024 when producer Hugh Padgham joined...
Terry Chambers and EXTC are back on the road and they are sounding fantastic. In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcas...
In the 50th episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , we go back to the formative years of XTC in the company of Ian Doeser...
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of XTC’s landmark album Apple Venus Volume I , producer Haydn Bendall talks to What Do You Call That Noise...
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we hear from Jason Repantis who works as a manager at the Universal...
Peter Pumpkinhead proclaims that "Any kind of love is alright" and gets nailed to a chunk of wood for saying so. What does that tell us abou...
Steven Wilson has returned to XTC's 1984 masterpiece and given it not only a stunning 5.1 surround remix but also, for the first time with X...
Chris Braide , one of the most successful songwriters of his generation, talks to What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast about his col...
As Steve Conte releases his Fourth of July single, the guitarist and singer talks about writing songs with his XTC hero, joining the New Yor...
Andy Partridge and Stu Rowe have been working together since the recording of Monstrance in 2006. Andy then produced Jen Olive's album Warm...
Ten years ago Stu Rowe, Jen Olive and XTC's Andy Partridge started working on material which, after all these years, is finally – and glorio...
It's the music we've been awaiting for a decade – and now it's out! Stu Rowe, Jen Olive and Andy Partridge have gone public with The 3 Clubm...
Oh we do like to be beside the B-sides. In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , Mia Rankin, Ashley LeCron,...
What happens when a Christian, a Humanist and a Buddhist congregate to talk about the songs of XTC? Will they give praise? Or will they be t...
In the second of a two-part conversation for What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , five fans, journalists and photographers recall...
On 20 January 1978, XTC released their debut album with its defiant cry of This Is Pop! In the first of a two-part conversation for What Do...
Illustration: Ashley LeCron In October 2020, we handed over What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast to a bunch of fans in their 20s. Ti...
Picture © Lou Dommett Young What was it like to be on the road with one of the hardest working bands of the late 70s and early 80s? We find...
Picture © Lou Dommett Young One of the many highlights of the 2022 XTC Convention in Swindon was an in-depth interview with producer John Le...
As they prepare for one last run around the block, the members of Fossil Fools, the UK's longest running tribute to XTC, talk about their or...
It takes seven musicians to reproduce the sound of XTC when the fantastic Scarecrow People take to the stage. In this episode of What Do You...
In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , we dig deep into the centre of the songs of XTC with a celebration of some...
What was it like being the eight-year-old asked to sing on XTC’s landmark album? Thirty-five years after recording Dear God , Jasmine Veille...
In this month's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we reassess XTC's most frequently neglected album in the company of...
In this month's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we're thinking about XTC music played live – in the past and the pr...
It was 18 March 1982 at La Palace in Paris when Andy Partridge left the stage for the last time, overwhelmed by the pressures of relentless...
On 12 February 1982, XTC's English Settlement was released. Forty years on, What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast reunites guitarist...
What does the Bishop of Leeds think of All of a Sudden ? What does Pat Kane of Hue and Cry make of Leisure ? What can classicist Charlotte H...
What is the holy grail for the XTC completist? Is it the 7in Science Friction with picture sleeve? Or is it the 7in Wrapped in Grey that was...
Nick Heyward first saw XTC at the Croydon Greyhound in 1978, two days after the release of White Music . The Haircut 100 frontman has been a...
After being delayed 18 months by the pandemic, Terry Chambers is finally out on the road, giving XTC classics the live airing they deserve w...