Interview with Andy Partridge on his upcoming book - "Complicated Game"

[elroy]

Not actually surround but a really interesting interview about what appears to be a really intriguing book about his songwriting.

Full book title: "Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC"

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/20/mus...ng_the_cruel_parent_gene_toward_your_own_art/

 

[wavelength]

The book is due out tomorrow.

And Andy says this:
Do you have anything else in the pipeline?
Am I working on anything else? Well, I am working on getting together all the stuff for the next 5.1 [surround sound XTC] release, which when Steven Wilson finishes his tour in a couple of weeks’ time, will be making more inroads into that. I’m not going to tell you which title it is yet, but it’s going to sound great. He’s doing his usual excellent job of making it sound just like the original, and then better. That’s the criteria. It’s got to sound like the original, but it’s got to sound better. I’m looking around for archived stuff, demos, any other performances to make this forthcoming package a good one.

 

[jdmack]

This is a really good book for fans of XTC, with a lot of indepth discussion about the creative process of songwriting. And I'm not just saying that because I'm one of the people thanked in the introduction : ).