The XTC Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls: A Limelight Anthology

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"A sumptuous compendium... The most comprehensive and incisive book about XTC
yet published" Dom Lawson, Prog Magazine. "The music publication of the year"
Dave Jennings, Louder than War. "A delicious thing to dive in and out of" Iain
Lee, Talk Radio. "Dotted throughout those original pages and some relaxed,
genuinely insightful interviews; Partridge in particular is on outspoken form
throughout. Fans new and old will pore over this." Jamie Atkins, Record
Collector. "Varied, surprising and fun" Samantha Burke, Cent Magazine. The XTC
Bumper Book of Fun for Boys and Girls is a celebration of Limelight, the
classic 1980s fanzine about XTC, featuring the original copies published
between 1982 and 1992 plus new material for 2017, including interviews with
Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory and Terry Chambers. 2017
highlights include: Andy Partridge on childhood, children and creativity Colin
Moulding and Terry Chambers on the art of the rhythm section Dave Gregory on
Drums and Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement XTC on some surprising
musical influences Comedians Phill Jupitus, Kevin Eldon, Stewart Lee, Joanna
Neary and Paul Putner on their favourite XTC songs Clive Jackson of Doctor and
the Medics on being produced by Andy Partridge Belinda Blanchard on starring
in the video for Dear God Peter Mills on the link between Thomas Hardy and XTC
"We had a couple of lifelines to the world and Limelight was one of them. I
don’t know how we would have breathed publicity-wise if it weren’t for
Limelight and The Little Express in Canada. It was an essential breathing tube
for us. It was the paper-and-ink internet. Limelight was the internet with
added staples." ANDY PARTRIDGE "Limelight and The Little Express did us proud
in putting our name about in the early days." COLIN MOULDING More details:
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