From Ballyhoo to Britpop: XTC (Part 2)
Oct 07, 2019•39 min
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Episode description
On the improbable endurance of XTC, a band signed during the punk frenzy that would bring song-craft back to the fore in the early 1980s. Following a fractious period of financial instability and pressure from Virgin records, the band went on strike in the early 1990s, unable to wrest themselves from one of the worst contracts ever signed.
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