For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we present a delightfully odd clip of XTC members Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding tucked away in bed (a sleeper sofa, to be precise), where they are being interviewed by onetime Utopia keyboardist Moogy Klingman and Lisa Yapp for New York cable-access TV show “Manhattan Alley.”
The interview, during which Partridge and Moulding, ever the good sports, are fed peanut butter and crackers, was conducted during a U.S. tour for 1980’s Black Sea, which means it likely was filmed in the fall of that year or spring 1981, when the group returned for another round of U.S. dates — back when XTC still actually toured.
Special thanks to Old School Edge with Jeff K for bringing this to our attention.
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- Andy Partridge: New 5.1 Surround mix commissioned for XTC’s ‘Nonsuch’ album
- Vintage Video: XTC performs for ‘Rockpalast’ on German TV in 1982 — full 70-minute gig
- Andy Partridge prepping ‘nice new vinyl cut’ of XTC’s ‘Drums and Wires’ for reissue
- XTC reveals ‘banned’ pubic-hair cover art for upcoming ‘Skylarking’ vinyl reissue
- XTC’s ‘Skylarking’ vinyl reissue ‘30% better sounding,’ will restore original artwork
- Vintage Video: ‘XTC at the Manor,’ 1980 doc about recording ‘Towers of London’
- XTC reissuing ‘Skylarking’ on vinyl ‘as it was intended to sound, but never has’
