A Merry XTCmas: part one

by Mark Fisher | Posted on December 4, 2020December 6, 2020

Prepare for a feast of seasonal excess with the first of two festive episodes of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast.

First up is Martin Newell talking about Christmas in Suburbia and his fantastic Flowers in December EP.

Then comes Chris Butler of the Waitresses talking about Christmas Wrapping to Andy Partridge who names the XTC song it influenced.

This episode also features a Christmas song from Robert Lawlor and a visit from Rainer Fielder and his children Arthur and Esther. Questions from Mark Fisher, Mark Reed and David White.

Fellow #XTC fans, check this out! Chris Butler of the Waitresses talking about ‘Christmas Wrapping’ to Andy Partridge who names the XTC song it influenced. Part 2 finds Andy and Chris discussing their fave Xmas tunes. AMAZING! https://t.co/oasCVEhnMn
— JΞFF Ҝ (@jeffknet) December 5, 2020

Listen along to the accompanying Spotify playlist: A Merry XTCmas

Visit Martin Newell’s website

Catch up with Chris Butler

Hear episode two

Further reading in The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls and What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book available from the Limelight shop

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About the author

MARK FISHER is a freelance theatre critic and feature writer based in Edinburgh and has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s. He is a theatre critic for The Guardian, a former editor of The List magazine and a frequent contributor to the Scotsman and other publications. He is the co-editor of the play anthology Made in Scotland (1995), and the author of The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide (2012) and How to Write About Theatre (2015) – all Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. While at school, he set up the XTC fanzine Limelight, which he republished as The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls (2017). He followed that with What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book (2019). In 2020, he launched What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast.