Covering XTC with Dan Barrow and Innocents Abroad

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 old and new to come together and share in their love of all things XTC. On the line-up, as well as a trip to the Uffington White Horse, and interviews with Dave Gregory and Hugh Padgham, are performances from several cover bands. They include our guests in this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast: Dan Barrow, who is opening the festival with a one-man rendition of The Big Express in its entirety, and Peter Mills and Martin Malone , two of the members of Innocents Abroad, who will be working their way through the XTC songbook on Sunday afternoon. Music from Jeff Farris Further listening at Innocents Abroad What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book available from If you’ve enjoyed What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast , please show your support at Thanks to the Pink Things, Humble Daisies and Knights in Shining Karma who’ve done the same. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Covering XTC with Dan Barrow and Innocents Abroad is an episode from What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast by Mark Fisher.

This episode is 79:37 long.

This episode was published on May 30, 2025.

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