What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast
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What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast
Interviews and discussions about XTC, from White Music to Wasp Star and beyond
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XTC and the Dukes of Stratosphear with Ian Gregory, aka EIEI Owen
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we return to the 2025 XTC Fan Festival to hear Ian Gregory who, under the pseu...
Hugh Padgham: working with XTC
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we return to the 2025 XTC Fan Festival to hear engineer and producer Hugh Padg...
Stu Rowe: collaborating with XTC
This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features a fascinating conversation with Stu Rowe recorded at the 2025 XTC Fan Festival i...
XTC’s Dave Gregory talks to Thomas Walsh
This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features a highly entertaining conversation between XTC guitarist Dave Gregory and fellow...
XTC’s Skylarking with Alfredo Marziano
In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we join Alfredo Marziano, the author of the newly published XTC: Skylarking – A Life...
Covering XTC with Dan Barrow and Innocents Abroad
It’s fan festival time again. Coming up on 20–22 June at the Mecca in Swindon, the sold-out 2025 XTC Fan Festival is a chance for friends old and new...
Madison Cunningham on XTC
Twenty-five years after their final album, XTC continue to inspire new generations of musicians. In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The X...
The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC) 40th Anniversary
How much further up the charts would Senses Working Overtime have climbed if the sleeve had been made of heavier material? What does the finish on the...
Rick Buckler of the Jam on Terry Chambers and XTC
To commemorate the death of Rick Buckler on 17 February 2025, this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast features an interview the d...
Remembering XTC superfan Darryl Bullock (ft artist Ken White)
Darryl Bullock was a massive fan of XTC, an avid record collector and one of the tireless organisers of the online and in-person XTC fan conventions....
XTC and the music business
In this 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 r...
XTC’s Andy Partridge: the Patreon questions II
In the second of a special two-part edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, supporters on Patreon ask questions they had always wante...
XTC's Skylarking with Dave Gregory and Steven Wilson
Ace remixer Steven Wilson has already given XTC’s 1986 album Skylarking a 5.1 surround sound makeover and now he has gone one step further with a mix...
XTC’s Andy Partridge: the Patreon questions I
In the first of a special two-part edition of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, supporters on Patreon ask questions they had always wanted...
The birth of XTC with Steve Warren
From handing a tape to John Peel to encouraging Colin Moulding to write songs, Steve Warren is a key part of the XTC story. In a fascinating interview...
XTC's English Settlement with producer Hugh Padgham
XTC fans were out in force at the Neo-Ancients festival in Stroud, Gloucestershire on Saturday 4 May 2024 when producer Hugh Padgham joined festival c...
XTC's Terry Chambers and EXTC 2024
Terry Chambers and EXTC are back on the road and they are sounding fantastic. In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we catc...
Early XTC with Ian Doeser and Lee Moulding
In the 50th episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we go back to the formative years of XTC in the company of Ian Doeser and Lee Mou...
Haydn Bendall on producing XTC’s Apple Venus
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of XTC’s landmark album Apple Venus Volume I, producer Haydn Bendall talks to What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC P...
In search of XTC
In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast we hear from Jason Repantis who works as a manager at the Universal Music Grou...
XTC: any kind of love is alright
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 at...
XTC's The Big Express in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos
Steven Wilson has returned to XTC's 1984 masterpiece and given it not only a stunning 5.1 surround remix but also, for the first time with XTC, a Dolb...
Chris Braide on songwriting (ft XTC's Andy Partridge)
Chris Braide, one of the most successful songwriters of his generation, talks to What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast about his collaborations...
Steve Conte on songwriting (ft XTC's Andy Partridge)
As Steve Conte releases his Fourth of July single, the guitarist and singer talks about writing songs with his XTC hero, joining the New York Dolls an...
The 3 Clubmen III: Andy Partridge (XTC)
Andy Partridge and Stu Rowe have been working together since the recording of Monstrance in 2006. Andy then produced Jen Olive's album Warm Robot in...
The 3 Clubmen II: Jen Olive
Ten years ago Stu Rowe, Jen Olive and XTC's Andy Partridge started working on material which, after all these years, is finally – and gloriously seein...
The 3 Clubmen I: Stu Rowe
It's the music we've been awaiting for a decade – and now it's out! Stu Rowe, Jen Olive and Andy Partridge have gone public with The 3 Clubmen and the...
XTC’s best B-sides
Oh we do like to be beside the B-sides. In this month’s episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, Mia Rankin, Ashley LeCron, Crawford B...
XTC and Religion – from Dear God to Scatter Me
What happens when a Christian, a Humanist and a Buddhist congregate to talk about the songs of XTC? Will they give praise? Or will they be torn asunde...
XTC's White Music: 45 years on (part two)
In the second of a two-part conversation for What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, five fans, journalists and photographers recall what it was...
XTC's White Music: 45 years on (part one)
On 20 January 1978, XTC released their debut album with its defiant cry of This Is Pop! In the first of a two-part conversation for What Do You Call T...
Young XTC Fan Takeover – Christmas Edition
Illustration: Ashley LeCron
In October 2020, we handed over What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast to a bunch of fans in the...
XTC Road Stories with Terry Chambers, Allan Jones, Pete Dewhirst and Steve Warren
Picture © Lou Dommett Young
What was it like to be on the road with one of the hardest working bands of the late 70s and early 80s? We f...
John Leckie on XTC: from White Music to the Dukes
Picture © Lou Dommett Young
One of the many highlights of the 2022 XTC Convention in Swindon was an in-depth interview with producer Joh...
Fossil Fools: XTC covered
As they prepare for one last run around the block, the members of Fossil Fools, the UK's longest running tribute to XTC, talk about their origins, the...
Scarecrow People: XTC covers, Sydney-style
It takes seven musicians to reproduce the sound of XTC when the fantastic Scarecrow People take to the stage. In this episode of What Do You Call That...
XTC's best middle eights: Great Fire to Season Cycle
In this episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we dig deep into the centre of the songs of XTC with a celebration of some of the ban...
XTC, Skylarking & Dear God: Jasmine Veillette & Ralph Legnini
What was it like being the eight-year-old asked to sing on XTC’s landmark album? Thirty-five years after recording Dear God, Jasmine Veillette looks b...
XTC's Mummer with Tim Bowness, Sean McGhee and Crawford Blair
In this month's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we reassess XTC's most frequently neglected album in the company of some of i...
EXTC's Matt Hughes and XTC's last ever gig
In this month's episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast, we're thinking about XTC music played live – in the past and the present.