Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious side

showing a more serious side to the group’s lyricism

NYC features seven tracks the band performed at the intimate launch event on October 19

Too Nice To Talk To (dubweiser)

On the Romance of Being consists of 8 movements that sonically sprawl across post-gospel

Nambo on trombone and David Madden on trumpet

Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR showing a more serious sideSkylarking: XTCs most commercially successful album was, for many years, also its most mythical with tales of lost multi track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented & an Anglophile super producer that turned rather imperfect