XTC Interview 1984 Part 1
Essentially this is an Andy Partridge Interview as spokesperson for XTC on an occaision when he was a co host on the same programme. Some interesting comments around Andy’s lack of enthusiasm for touring and talk around pre release previews of tracks from The Big Express album that would be released later that year. I can’t detect any criticisms from Andy of their then record label , Virgin though the parting of the ways was in sight.
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Up the hill backwards 
Can’t say how the ‘parting of the ways’ was in sight at the time of the Big Express. There’s another 3 Virgin albums over what amounts to the best part of another decade after this, so I’d argue at this point ‘the end’ was still a considerable way off…