XTC and the music business

by Mark Fisher | Posted on

In the latest edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we go behind the scenes to see how deals get signed, press releases get written and records get released. Joining us are Ronnie Gurr, whowent from producing a punk fanzine to working in the Virgin press office; Mike Smith who signed Andy Partridge to Warner Chappell Music as a songwriter; Ben Wardle, who paved the way for one of the collaborations between Andy and Stephen Duffy; and Youie Mourra, whogot tantalisingly close to releasing a series of XTC retrospective collections.

Music from Jordan Cooper

XTC photos in Hanging Around Books

What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book available from the Limelight Shop 

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Illustration of Andy Partridge by Mike Smith

Photo of Youie Mourra and Andy Partridge

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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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