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

showing a more serious side to the group’s lyricism

and you’re about right with how to summarize a group who’ve released ten singles

let alone recording

It opened the doors to stadium shows and appearances at some of the biggest and most diverse festivals in the world

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

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