The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls: A Limelight Anthology
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"A sumptuous compendium... The most comprehensive and incisive book about XTC yet published" Dom Lawson, Prog Magazine. "The music publication of the year" Dave Jennings, Louder than War. "A delicious thing to dive in and out of" Iain Lee, Talk Radio. "Dotted throughout those original pages and some relaxed, genuinely insightful interviews; Partridge in particular is on outspoken form throughout. Fans new and old will pore over this." Jamie Atkins, Record Collector. "Varied, surprising and fun" Samantha Burke, Cent Magazine. The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls is a celebration of Limelight, the classic 1980s fanzine about XTC, featuring the original copies published between 1982 and 1992 plus new material for 2017, including interviews with Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Terry Chambers. 2017 highlights include: Andy Partridge on childhood, children and creativity Colin Moulding and Terry Chambers on the art of the rhythm section Dave Gregory on Drums and Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement XTC on some surprising musical influences Comedians Phill Jupitus, Kevin Eldon, Stewart Lee, Joanna Neary and Paul Putner on their favourite XTC songs Clive Jackson of Doctor and the Medics on being produced by Andy Partridge Belinda Blanchard on starring in the video for Dear God Peter Mills on the link between Thomas Hardy and XTC "We had a couple of lifelines to the world and Limelight was one of them. I don’t know how we would have breathed publicity-wise if it weren’t for Limelight and The Little Express in Canada. It was an essential breathing tube for us. It was the paper-and-ink internet. Limelight was the internet with added staples." ANDY PARTRIDGE "Limelight and The Little Express did us proud in putting our name about in the early days." COLIN MOULDING More details: http://www.xtclimelight.com Review: Paper and Iron, Notes and Coins well spent! - Wow! Wow! Wow! What a fantastic book. Mark Fisher has spent so much time and effort, not just with the production of the original Limelight fanzines which are all reprinted here, but on the collation of this wonderful tribute to XTC which includes up to date interviews with the boys and many other great features - this really is a Bumper Book of fun on so many levels. If you're a fan of XTC then you need this book in your collection...and it's so beautifully laid out too (the coffee cup marks and oily fingerprints are genius), the cover alone had me grinning from ear to ear...'Take home your Lucky Dip wage....It's a fun-fair life' :-) The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls: A Limelight Anthology Review: A great read this - A great read this , if you go for really good instrument merging and interesting lyrics put together to make all your senses jiggle then Xtc are the group for you its all in these pages ... buy it now !
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J**N
Paper and Iron, Notes and Coins well spent!
Wow! Wow! Wow! What a fantastic book. Mark Fisher has spent so much time and effort, not just with the production of the original Limelight fanzines which are all reprinted here, but on the collation of this wonderful tribute to XTC which includes up to date interviews with the boys and many other great features - this really is a Bumper Book of fun on so many levels. If you're a fan of XTC then you need this book in your collection...and it's so beautifully laid out too (the coffee cup marks and oily fingerprints are genius), the cover alone had me grinning from ear to ear...'Take home your Lucky Dip wage....It's a fun-fair life' :-) The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls: A Limelight Anthology
R**Y
A great read this
A great read this , if you go for really good instrument merging and interesting lyrics put together to make all your senses jiggle then Xtc are the group for you its all in these pages ... buy it now !
B**E
Anything to do with XTC is brilliant
I am a big fan of XTC. I'd just begrudgingly thrown away all my copies of Limelight on a house move so this is a godsend. The most underrated band ever.
S**N
Great for dipping in and out of...
Must have for fans of XTC; read in piecemeal over 6 months and thoroughly enjoyed....
G**R
Five Stars
Love it!!!!! If XTC is yer thing, get it.
S**L
Five Stars
Great read and hours of fun here!
1**T
If you are fan of XTC, you need to buy this.
I was very pleased indeed to get my copy of this book. As a great fan of all things XTC, it is great to have the collected Limelight magazines in excellent condition in one convenient place. The magazines were a labour of love, dedicated to the band and they started partway through the band's early career and were the only way to get any information and to get questions answered and to read informative interviews with the band, as the press never gave them enough space on their pages at the time. The vintage magazine content is nicely balanced by interesting new interviews with the principal band members, Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Terry Chambers. In these new interviews, they refreshingly do not shy away from speaking about the eventual saddening demise of the band and while they are all moved on from it all and doing interesting things, there is a sadness from fans for all of them that they are not all together at this time, creating new music. It's never too late, guys. If you are fan of XTC, you need to buy this.
M**D
"The Music Publication Of The Year" - Louder Than War
Mark Fisher has done a tremendous job of not only reprinting all the copies of the legendary XTC fanzine, 'Limelight', but also adding plenty of new and updated material, both with the band and with celebrity fans telling of the deep impact this oft-overlooked and underrated band have made on those who bother to seek them out. Ideal for dipping into, or just starting at page one and gorging until you come, sadly, to the last page. Rather than me wittering on, let me quote the final sentence of the review of this book on the great music website, Louder Than War - "This is an outstanding record of a superb band and, certainly from my perspective, the music publication of the year."
K**R
Great books
Super fast shipping from a great XTC fan! Buy without hesitation
E**I
MUSTHAVE
Un libro ricco e testimonianza di una delle piu grandi band inglesi. unica pecca che il plico non ha protetto a sufficienza il prodotto che è arrivato non del tutto integro.
J**R
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