XTC: any kind of love is alright

by Mark Fisher | Posted on

Peter Pumpkinhead proclaims that “Any kind of love is alright” and gets nailed to a chunk of wood for saying so. What does that tell us about XTC’s attitude to love and human relationships? In particular, how welcoming does this heterosexual band seem to those who aren’t heterosexual themselves?

This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast looks at XTC from an LGBTQI+ perspective. Guest host Darryl Bullock is joined by Keeley Moss, Tim Kendrick and Soizic De St John Rosse to talk about everything from The Loving to Towers of London.

Music by Tim Pike and Slowrush.

Darryl Bullock
Keeley
2025 XTC Fans Festival, Friday 20–Sunday 22 June 2025
Slowrush

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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.

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