On June 29, 1989, I was walking down the street during my lunch break in NYC (I was a 23-year-old in an entry-level advertising job) in midtown near Sixth Ave, and saw three interestingly dressed men and a little girl walk by me in the opposite direction. After a second, I realized they were Colin and his young daughter, Dave and Andy from XTC and I turned around and followed them for a couple of blocks. When we got to a DON'T WALK sign, I said "Excuse me, are you guys XTC?" and they all turned around. I told them I was a huge fan and had all of their records. Colin thanked me and said "tune in, we'll be on David Letterman tomorrow night." I don't remember the other two guys saying anything. I was completely blown away, especially considering they had stopped touring and become a studio band and weren't exactly out in public much. I went back to the office and told two of my friends that I had just met XTC on the street downstairs and they both said, "Who's XTC?"
TH-cam finally decided to let me know about this! Great performance - it's not lost on my how Andy let Colin have the spotlight on this - perhaps the stage fright was calling the shots?
Colin wrote the song and the rules set by Andy was whoever wrote the song, sings it. Yes, Andy apparently didn’t want to be upfront and you can see Colin once in awhile looking back at him I suppose to see how Andy’s holding up.
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On June 29, 1989, I was walking down the street during my lunch break in NYC (I was a 23-year-old in an entry-level advertising job) in midtown near Sixth Ave, and saw three interestingly dressed men and a little girl walk by me in the opposite direction. After a second, I realized they were Colin and his young daughter, Dave and Andy from XTC and I turned around and followed them for a couple of blocks. When we got to a DON'T WALK sign, I said "Excuse me, are you guys XTC?" and they all turned around. I told them I was a huge fan and had all of their records. Colin thanked me and said "tune in, we'll be on David Letterman tomorrow night." I don't remember the other two guys saying anything. I was completely blown away, especially considering they had stopped touring and become a studio band and weren't exactly out in public much. I went back to the office and told two of my friends that I had just met XTC on the street downstairs and they both said, "Who's XTC?"
Best UK band of the 70/80s!
TH-cam finally decided to let me know about this! Great performance - it's not lost on my how Andy let Colin have the spotlight on this - perhaps the stage fright was calling the shots?
Colin wrote the song and the rules set by Andy was whoever wrote the song, sings it. Yes, Andy apparently didn’t want to be upfront and you can see Colin once in awhile looking back at him I suppose to see how Andy’s holding up.
We were all so much younger then.