XTC @ Gaston Hall - Washington, DC (1980-01-24)
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2015
- XTC performing live at Gaston Hall at Georgetown University in Washington DC on January 24, 1980.
Setlist:
Intro
Beatown
Real By Reel
When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
Life Begins At The Hop
The Rhythm
Meccanic Dancing
Roads Girdle the Globe
Ten Feet Tall
Helicopter
This is Pop?
Battery Brides
Instant Tunes
Crowded Room
Complicated Game
Making Plans for Nigel
Radios in Motion
Are You Receiving Me?
Outside World
Dance Band
Statue of Liberty
Can we get a shout-out for Dave Gregory? The impeccable straight-man for Andy's manic and inspired guitar strangling! I'm somehow reminded of Belew and Fripp - one the inspired technician, the other the uncontrolled experimenter. Awesome.
A band so far ahead of our time and so heavy that they defined the genre before we knew it was a genre! The best of the best!
couldn't agree more
ponder this: REM opened for these guys in Athens GA on this very tour. 40 Watt. 250-person club. that's like dying and going to heaven.
I'm not sure if that was this tour, I do know that R.E.M. opened for them on April 24 1981, but that's about 15 months later. XTC were really starting to pick up a lot of excited fans by 1981 and 1982 (going by recordings of concerts from then,) but then Andy had enough touring.
I was there. 16 years old. First real (reel) concert I'd ever been to.
Crazy not only that you saw them but also that they were your first concert. I'm only 22 now but I can't believe this amazing show was so close to home
wow
God bless the person who recorded this. There's a special place in heaven for you.
XTC is the best UK band of the second half of the 20th Century. PERIOD. To whomever shot/captured/whatever THIS, I love you forever.
Correction: There's a special hace in pleaven for ye... Keep it straight, bucko...
How anyone can confuse an x with an n is beyond me. He didn't do research, obviously.
@@gentillygirl545 LOL
could everyone who loves XTC please find a way to get those lads some cash. Man, they deserve it
XTC had the best drum sound - really stands out on the studio albums.
I saw this show, and I really remember the drums. Especially the Syndrum, which really penetrated the sound.
Steve Lillywhite
Yes indeed, God bless the person who persevered and continued recording the whole amazing show ( loved the closeups of th VU meters) Catering to the US audience with the US single version of Ten Feet Tall. My pesonal favorite Helicopter. Extra long Battery Brides. Complicated Game! Even Terry Chambers in drumstick twirling mode! What a show. What a band! Has always been in my top 10 all time favorites. These guys were talent, energy and gifted X 10.
Lost count but I think this is my 8th or 9th night in a row binge watching XTC live vids and interviews. This set list is just incredible. So happy I'm still unearthing such gems! Even if it does make sad that I wasn't there. What an incredible band in and out of the studio.
xtc arguably has the greatest, most diverse catalog e in rock history From the 2nd album until the last one, all fucking treasures
M2❤
This was my first "new wave" concert. I was resistant at first, but their music won me over. We stayed afterwards and got to hang out with the band - also a first! I had an embarrassing moment when, not knowing a lot about their music, I said how I liked the way Colin did that song that went, "Wanna hear that tune, one and one make two..." They, of course, said something that sounded like, "We're a Dance Band." I replied, "I know you are, but what's the name of the song?" A little Abbott & Costello routine ensued...
That’s awesome. I’d love to have a conversation with them.
😁
Andy Partridge is such a dynamic performer. It's a total shame he hasn't performed live in over 30 years. And Terry Chambers is such a great drummer, XTC was never the same after he left.
Terry and Colin performing at Swindon arts centre oct and nov 2018....as TC&I
never the same, sure... but they continued making good music... skylarking is still my favorite xtc album
Out of this World even back then.Amazing live set!God bless you boys for unleashing this wave of poetic metal magic beauty into our World.💚
49:16 Complicated Game
Insanely intense.
Thank u. Came here for that actually. Made it easier.
Thanks!!!!
possibly the best song ever written man idk
oh FUCK! and straight into Making Plans for Nigel. unbelievable.
Arnie Pantridge & Carin Malding of XTN! And here I've been mispronouncing their names all this time ;-) Thanks for posting!
00) 0:00 Intro
01) 0:54 Beatown
02) 4:22 Real By Reel
03) 8:06 When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty
04) 11:36 Life Begins At The Hop
05) 15:17 The Rhythm
06) 18:32 Meccanik Dancing
07) 21:02 Roads Girdle the Globe
08) 26:10 Ten Feet Tall
09) 29:29 Helicopter
10) 33:02 This is Pop?
11) 35:33 Battery Brides
12) 44:09 Instant Tunes
13) 46:28 Crowded Room
14) 49:08 Complicated Game
15) 53:10 Making Plans for Nigel
Encore Section 1:
16) 59:12 Radios in Motion
17) 1:02:14 Are You Receiving Me?
Encore Section 2:
18) 1:07:16 Outside World
19) 1:09:53 Dance Band (starts at the very end of Outside World)
20) 1:13:13 Statue of Liberty
Ten Feet Tall such a gem!!!
Never thought I'd hear a live performance of a song like Roads Girdle The Globe...and never expected it to sound so good when I did...wow.
The demented vocals on Game are one of the most subversive things ever to maul the mainstream. Smirk-worthy audacity and awe-inspiring execution.
Nah it doesn't work live
One of the greatest bands of all time. Most people just don't know it. :)
Best band I saw live of that era -- was lucky enough to see them live twice circa this time -- in relatively small venues in NY and SF. Jaws dropped, especially among those of us who were in bands.
Agreed!
indeed
Lol agreed...at a time when my classmates were all listening to duran duran, kajagoogoo and the like...i was listening to this band, king crimson, pink floyd, indian classical music and psychedelia.... Looking forwards to seeing TC&I in Swinerz...can't fecking wait!!!
This show and the Talking Heads in the same room about a year earlier were in the top 5 shows I've ever had the pleasure of seeing
41 years!!! It's like time travel. Sound is good. Band is electric...at its height. Thanks for recordng and posting. What a treat!!!
This is an amazing set.
Saw them 10 months after this, with the Police. Similar set list, from what I remember.
What a brilliant, powerful live band they were.
Wicked, choppy guitars.
Thanks so much for posting.
1980 seeing them at Irving Plaza in NYC, then a few months later at California Hall in San Francisco, two of the best live shows I saw in that era; their tempos, precision, and strength was breathtaking. Without them, no Franz Ferdinand, no Interpol, to name just two.
That transition from complicated game to plans with Nigel....
And two of my favourite XTC songs too!
a brilliant unexpected transition. Masterclass in how to place your most dramatic number mid-set and somehow make it work.
Colin was credited on the album by accident as writing complicated game, but it was actually andy who wrote it
@@oliveeisner8964 It works because Complicated Game is this cacophony of feeling like nothing you do matters and then Making Plans for Nigel is about a kid whose parents have his entire life planned out, perhaps far too much.
Brilliant
Roads Girdle The Globe? Didnt expect that one. Brilliant song.
Amazing and only 175 views. Thanks for posting. Sound quality is damn good too. Tasty slice of music history here, folks.
I just stumbled onto this, It's like being there which I couldn't because the ticket I bought here in England was never used owing to Andy's stage fright....
This was the first of my 3 XTC shows!! Incredible to see it again after 37(almost 38) years!! Thanks so much for posting this!!
I was at this show too!
You Sir are very lucky. Did you graduate from Georgetown?
Great show 👏 👍 👌
I was living in the DC area in 1980 and remember using the Pretenders at Georgetown University at McDonogh Arena.....not Gaston Hall......I remember having tickets to see XTC in 1982 on the English Settlement in Washington, DC at the Ontario Theatre ........but that tour was halted before it began due to Andy's anxiety issues
Powerhouse performance by one of the greatest bands ever, Cheers for posting
Awesome, they were my favorite band as a teen, a great band, and I underestimated how good the drummer; Terry Chambers is.
He's hitting them so hard and fast. You're right.
You should hear his lad Kai Chambers....skin whacker...not a skin tickler...just like his dad
wow first time actually looking up another video besides complicated game by them and this is tripping me out. These guys are so funky man and WAY before their time. I cant imagine hearing this in the 70s-80s before all the many subgenres we have today, there was not anything just like this before.
Edit: it sounds like the beginning of ska and experimental/psychedelic punk
Coming from London(Peckham,S.E. London) first heard and saw (on the t.v.) XTC in the late 70's and i'm delighted that such an "english" band has got fans in the states! to me their very influential and criminally underated so spread the word about them...cheers!
49:30 - Complicated game - Spotify put it on my discover weekly list and I initially thought I had stumbled on an obscure band from the '00s. WOW!
Partridge really brings incredibly intensity to his vocal performance in both the studio version and this live version right 'ere.
Incredible.
Thanks for posting
Big thanks for putting this up man!
Im obsessed with "Complicated game"
never got to see them live, this is pretty close! They were great!
Not going to the TC&I shows in swindon, then?
Roads Girdle the Globe -- the song no guitarist can figure out!
And bass player !
*smiles.*
God this is awesome - cf. the Boston 1980 bootleg which is even better in many ways! - but what's odd to see here is that no one ever smiles - that this music should be this good, this danceable, this joyous, this energetic - yet these guys never once crack a grin -
Because playing with this level of mathematical precision for an hour and a half is HARD
They were doing alot of turing and not seeing a penny for have done so....bad record deals and rip off managers....touring is also knackering....also dead pan was part of the new wave style of presentation
Also they are too fucking cool to grin
Amazing how one of the most abrasive guitar sounds on the planet could so complement one of the most sublime guitar tones ever. Four amazing musicians giving the music absolutely everything they’ve got. Add the likes of John Leckie and Hugh Padgham, not to mention Todd Rundgren, and the result is a music so timeless that we’ll all listen to it for the rest of our days.
this band could have been the biggest act in the world
Great live band. I saw them two or three times in this era. This is a treat: thanks for posting.
amazing to see this great recording
surprised by the # of comments mentioning Complicated Game... darn, seems like XTC cut off the end of this song on all their live renditions at this time
I could say so much about the swinden band but it's a already been said many times over ,Andy,Collin,Dave, really had it before we realized XTC was and is a great park of my life they changed music 🎵 for ever I must say dukes rule I'm the mole in the ministry dig it well I'm running low on soul coal and need to wake up because this world over is just another Cuba and real by real are killers I'll leave a king for a day ,Jason malt the guns love you guys peace out
Lovely - just lovely back in 1983!😎
Truly supreme from an awesome band
Love the intro from Andy - very funny
Oh nice, "Roads Girdle the Globe" at 21:02. Thanks.
nice, this is what i came here looking for
@@gfgoalie28 Come to think of it, this is the only live footage I know of the song. There are numerous audio bootlegs of the song (and the 1979 July 20 [Marconi Club, Sydney, Australia] show is a differently recorded one with Dave's guitar being louder than usual,) but this is the only video I've seen of it.
power packed performance they really smashed it especially with crowded room
Great show Great band thanks for sharing
fundamental band.
indispensable great place in my life love it so much
33:45 Terry stick twirl. Terry always in beast mode.
I was lucky enough to have caught this tour a few days later in Albany, NY at a small club called JB Scott's. Fingerprintz was the opening act. Jimmie McNeal (sp?), their lead singer, danced with us in front of the stage during XTCs set. At the time we had a habit of blasting Complicated Game at every party with all the lights out, so the band was curious as to why we were crying out for the lights to be extinguished during that tune. One of my all time favorite bands! Sadly unheralded. Rock Hall of Fame, I'm looking at you.
Nothingcarnate......Thank you! Thank you!, I saw them in '82 at Painter's Mill (Owings Mills, Md.), had too much Mouton Cadet that night and regrettably remember ZERO from the show...Excepting some warm - up band's lead singer called Joan Jett spit all over us...we were that close , otherwise my memory is a blank...This was so cool and high quality, much Grateful to you!
G-d, I wish I'd been there! Never saw XTC perform live.
@@jackdott7024 Friend, You're very fortunate to have seen XTC. I saw Patti Smith in 1978 @ Painter's Mill. Amazing!
@@gavrielladovbear7563 You and many of us.
Saw them open for The Police in Minneapolis in Nov. 1980. Great double bill. Tickets were $8.00. Those were the days.
XTC are one of those groups I would love to see live now at say the Reading Hexagon or Oxford. Not that far from Swindon. Shame they won’t be reforming.
my parents were at this show
35:33 long intro Battery Brides
The whistling in the beginning
Wow! Fantastic recording from whatever you recorded on back then…Betamax?!
Another brilliant proof that XTC were a great live band…Colin Moulding looking like he could be playing bass with …The Rutles!!
I love drams and woofs
I think i meant drums and wires
wow,merci beaucoup !
I was there Fantastic show
Cool 👍 😎
Brilliant!
Brilliant
so impressive, so good
Battery brides, best live performance ever
Roads Girdle the Globe!
This must be the music that is played in Heaven. For sure !
So good
This IS pop.
At the top of their game here for sure.
OMG. Is this the only (partial) vision of Complicated Game?
It took me a moment to realize that was Andy having a jab at poor announcership at the start.
You know what else, I saw an interview of them from 1980 or 1981 and most of the camera footage is showing Colin's back. Why'd they use _that_ footage?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh our secret
Almost like Talking Heads and The Jam crashed into Wire.
XTC were playing multiple concerts with Talking Heads in late 77, early 78. There are also pictures of them together.
Talking heads are a bit like XTC!
Mega fan of XTC, The Jam and Echo And The Bunnymen. The three greatest bands ever
Andy taking the piss at the beginning ("a British guy band from Whilteshyer, Engerlandshire")
For no other reason than to say that I've done (WE ALL HAVE) that "commando" video, and it's important to stay focused on who might be wsthching!
That said, this looks like a video of a video, and I'm thrilled to have access to it!
Got a friend who brought this back from that day. Not the original, but good enough to realize how determined this trusty documenter was. GOD! I'm glad the original source shot this! Religious experience...
Okay... and Complicated Game just sent me into orbit.
a treasure
How was complicated game written back then, sounds like a noise rock band from a decade or so later its insane
Hail mother motor hail piston rotor hail wheel !
Big up to Terry Chambers!
UNBELIEVABLE Intelligence Service.. funky Brainiac's perfection
What would you pay for a desk recording of this?
XTC was coming to my city on this tour but Andy cancelled due to stage fright. I don't get it....he's such a compelling performer, hard to imagine him having crippling anxiety.
To the point of ulcers....i think his sardonic banter masks the terror of having to perform live. He just absolutely detested the road.
Not this tour.. that was two years later.
@@rogerpatton2242 Yeah - Andy seems to have had his valium withdrawals starting in November 1979, but then he slogged through much of 1980 with touring or recording. 1981 had touring stop in June, and then they recorded English Settlement, then 1982's touring started in February and hit the big snag on March 18, then the last show was April 3.
Really though; he was supposed to be hyperactive at a young age, then his Mom heard of Valium which was touted as some sort of wonder drug, and he got on it a month before his 13th birthday. He then was taking it until his mid 20s, and he said he was taking "handfuls" of it at a time. Then his wife just tossed it all, and he went cold turkey. He'd have muscle spasms and amnesia, but I'm not sure if that was all at the same exact time.
Lighting problems?
this was the Drums and Wires tour ?.....the last album they toured for
Yes, Drums and Wires tour. No, not final tour. They also toured for Black Sea. They called it quits in early 1982 during the English Settlement tour.
@@DouglasLippi I had a ticket to see them on the English settlement tour in 1981 or 1982.......concert was supported to be in Washington DC
@@rebjiii what a bummer! My cousin tells me he also had tickets. I guess you guys are members of "The Disappointed" 😔
@@DouglasLippi ha ha.....well done......sadly I never saw XTC live......also wish I had seen the Sundays just once
49:08 complicated game
Thats why Todd Rundren stuck his nose in these guys and tried to get more acclaim they didnt want go toLondon I wish I could play as good
Colin had great tunes off Go2. They shouldve played Ill set myself on fire
@30:00 Got to be obscene to be obheard
9:00
Could Andy Partridge just run for something already? fer fuck's sake!
Arny Pantridge and Carin Malding of XTN
Frank Zappa turning over.
Great backing, spoiled by Andy not sticking to the songs melodies.
Seems as if he can't be fucked ? Very dissapointing ! I feel embarrassed for the other 3 .
It is quite annoying that Andy chooses to make stupid noises instead of singing the songs as they should sound ? Although it is quite clear that Andy struggled with some songs live ! Colin was they're best vocalist.
@@stephenbennett1643 Love Colin. Hope it wasn't sabotage on Andy's part....
They had a unique sound. And of there had to be the mandatory American accents - done poorly.
Another era.
four days after Reagan took office.
Well, at least the show was good
Wow they really butchered complicated game lowkey
Ha! "Warshington." Silly British types.