It is often said that Rome was not built in a day. Partridge's talent also took time to blossom. Although he remembers the title of his first song, "Please Help Me", scribbled at the age of 15, he ...

Aug Stone traces how the Cleaners From Venus cult songwriter and English eccentric Andy Partridge of XTC came together as pop geniuses in order to create lo-fi glory Our journalism is funded by our ...

During their heyday, Newcastle's Viz Comic teamed up with members of post-punks XTC for a novelty single of one of their most classic characters ...

“Punk opened the door to the amateur and I loved the energy of it,” admits Andy Partridge, XTC’s de facto leader and frontman. “But we got a lot of stick around that time. People would ...

is back on the road with his band EXTC (named and approved by XTC frontman, Andy Partridge). Emerging out of the post-punk and new-wave explosion of the late 70s, XTC experienced global success ...

He's also a pretty mean gardener. His album The Greatest Living Englishman was produced by Andy Partridge of XTC fame and recorded in Andy's "shed" home recording studio. Martin has a web-presence ...