The Next XTC Surround Sound Release...The Complete Dukes Of Stratosphear!

[Jeffrey Michael]

Regarding, “It’s going to be a cracker”. That must be some kind of code to figure out what the name of the next album will be...LOL

 

[Scott65]

A pity we do not get a release this year... I am now one of "The Disappointed"

 

[rusinurbe]

More titbits from Andy 'all I'll say is its being a tricky one for SW to mix , but he's wrestling it to the floor'

 

[ChristopherLees]

“It’s going to be a cracker”.
And all the world is biscuit-shaped

 

[Scott65]

“It’s going to be a cracker”.
And all the world is biscuit-shaped

Oh. Yes. Please.

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

...And I can an announcement coming soon...

 

[Jim the Oldbie]

More titbits from Andy...

Hee! Do you really say "titbits" over there?

As if you lot weren't already charming enough.

 

[rtbluray]

It can't be "English Settlement".
Andy said again just a little while ago that some of the tapes were still missing.
I'm still hoping for the Dukes.

 

[Franklin]

Do you really say...

Mainly those of us who don't know it's tidbits.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tidbit

See also "damp squid".

 

[ChristopherLees]

“It’s going to be a cracker”.
And all the world is biscuit-shaped

or maybe it's

...stop tryin' to diet on the wafers ......at the Church of Women...

 

[Scott65]

It can't be "English Settlement".
Andy said again just a little while ago that some of the tapes were still missing.
I'm still hoping for the Dukes.

ES or Dukes would be great

 

[rtbluray]

ES or Dukes would be great

Same with "Mummer" and even "The Big Express"

 

[Scott65]

Same with "Mummer" and even "The Big Express"

definitely

 

[The Rang]

Unless they found the English Settlement tapes maybe?
I sure hope so.
Played the Senses Working Overtime EP this weekend (on a 3” CD!) and I’d love to see the three non album tracks from that disc included with ES

 

[rtbluray]

At least Andy is still continuing to tweet, which shows that progress is definitely being made:

On the positive side, the new stereos, first stage for latest 5.1 mix, are sounding really good. Steven Wilson doing sterling work.

 

[haikubass]

also this:

 

[Jeffrey Michael]

If they find the English Settlement tapes, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Mummer tapes were there too. Same record label and it was their next recording. Plus, same label, etc. Since both are missing, this is only a guess and wishful thing so they don’t have to look in two different places.

 

[user 1679]

His comment "tricky one to mix" makes me think (hope!) it's Dukes, given previous remarks about the original having effects and stuff done on the fly.

Certainly though, I'll be happy with whatever it ends up being.

 

[key_wiz]

Yep. Here's to hoping that everything they CAN find eventually gets the deluxe treatment.

But THREE albums have missing tapes? Yikes. I wonder how much is missing? Maybe it will be possible to either use upmixing or leave a couple of tracks in stereo if there's only one or two songs missing? (This has been done before---thinking of "Songs from the Big Chair" and "...And Then There Were Three".)

But even if they can never be released in 5.1, I do hope they release deluxe sets anyway just of all the bonus tracks and to round out the collection!

But here's to some good luck trying to find the tapes and in the meantime bring on The Dukes, "Apple Venus", "Wasp Star", "Go 2" and "White Music"!

 

[rtbluray]

I may have mentioned this before, but what will be good about eventually getting 5.1 releases of both "English Settlement" and "Mummer" (that is if all the tapes can be found) is that this will be the first opportunity to collect together all of the B-sides & extra recordings from those sessions.

For example, for "English Settlement", you have the following tracks that were released on "Rag & Bone Buffet": "Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass", "Punch & Judy", "Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)", & "Blame the Weather", plus there's also "Cockpit Dance Mixture" (a dance remix of "Down in the Cockpit") and "Egyptian Solution" (one of the 'Homo Safari' tracks)

Then, for "Mummer", besides the 6 bonus tracks that were included on the remastered CD, there were also the following songs that were released on "Rag & Bone Buffet": "The World Is Full Of Angry Young Man" & "Happy Families"