XTC - Red brick dream (live)

Andy Partridge playing and singing.

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• XTC
• Andy
• Partridge

[vhxtc1]

The more i watch the more i want to listen. The more i listen the bigger the fan. When will it ever end. Never.... Thanks Andy.

[almadora]

i've married andy a thousand times... sigh.

[geech55]

@charlie7891000 Make sure you explore Andy's Fuzzy Warbles demos collection. And do yourself a favor and explore all the goodies that xtc4u.org has for downloading! Lots of live stuff there with some great video for the grabbing too. XTC were brilliant live, no matter what Andy says to the contrary!

[geech55]

@charlie7891000 Always love to hear about new people getting turned on to one of the most underrated and fabulous bands around. Their catalogue is so rich with treasures. You've got a fun time ahead of you. There are actually a lot of interviews and documentary bits floating around, though most salvaged from crappy VHS tapes, but that's what we have to deal with.

[geech55]

@crustyeyegoop It's a B-side from the Big Express, and a damn brilliant one at that.

[crustyeyegoop]

Is this an orriginal XTC or is it a cover of Syd Barrett? I havn't heard this song in years but for some reason i remember hearing it as a kid in the earlier 70s. time compression and crappy memory will do that to you I guess. That or all of the heroin I did in the 70s at age 6 :p

[allegracloud]

It truly was a Red Brick Dream!

[pakaal22]

Andy Partridge and XTC prided themselves on being average guys from Swindon (a town developed around a railway manufacturing works). XTC's reference to the iron works forging the locomotive engines in this song; "By the light of the furnace pouring / molten memories / Splashing down upon the roofs of Swindon town."

Red Brick Dream references Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times. Both Dickens' "Coketown" and XTC's "Swindon town" are versions of labor-class dystopias, hopeful, confused.

[StevenBoyleTV]

@ngholden Howdy ng, have you searched Red Brick You-Know-What recently?

My 'how-to' is about four down the list. Have fun!

[charlie7891000]

it's lovely to see so many other XTC obsessives here. I only got into them around 3 months ago, and they're already my favourite band. i literally don't need to listen to anything else these days. They have such an extensive back catalogue, spanning such a variety of styles that it's impossible to get bored of them. Wish there were more interviews etc., and, with reference to some of the comments below me, where's the documentary?!??

xtc you are gods. thank you

[chrisguygeezer]

This was a song recorded for a docu about the band, shot in around the 'railway town' of Swindon. Obviously about the history of Swindon too.

Where the fuck is that film?