at Wit's End in America Let’S Get Right to the Point
By Craig Zerouni : At Wit's End in America Let’s get right to the point. songwriter/guitarist Andy saying things that are subtly boyhood musical idols were, was formed in Swindon, “He (Andrews) was XTC’s music has been Partridge. Standing in a outrageous. “Bach’s quite besides the Beatles, the England. writing these songs that the described as “controlled large (dry) shower deep in good,” he says of the com Monkees. “I wanted to be in Partridge’s staccato rest of us considered sub experimentalism,” which is the bowels of the Events poser, “because he’s just the Monkees,” he says, not outline of that period runs standard and he was a bit about as good a description Center before their recent sterile meanderings up and too surprisingly, because like the highlights of the six peeved that we didn’t like his as one could want. The sound appearance here turns out to down the scale.” Reasons for “they were in a group and o’clock news: “Got together songs,” explains Partridge. is fresh, bright and witty, be the only place we can his personality, or at least a they were having lots of fun ’73...couldn’t play very “They were O.K., but they with a self-confidence talk, so we do. framework for it, emerge and getting girls and being well...very flashy weren’t as good as the stuff running through it that is Partridge is a small, pink later when on one occasion successful and at that age, I clothes...’76 record com we’d been doing, and we both obvious and pleasing, man, with little round he admits “I used to like was 13, that’s what I wanted panies started getting in thought it would be a step and which works: last year’s glasses and an aire of comedians a lot.” Does, he to do.” terested in us...had a per down...we’d be throwing out Drums and Wires Lp went mischief about him.
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