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@colinmathstutor.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:50 PM

10 Minute Klaxon #XTCMusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:50 PM

📢TEN MINUTES until the ORANGES & LEMONS Listening Party begins! 🎵 Prepare your copy, in whichever format you have, and join in the chat with some lovely folk (with excellent taste!) using the tag #XTCmusic (Reposts welcome!)

Colourful front sleeve of the 1989 XTC album, Oranges and Lemons.

The poster by Milton Glaser, which inspired the O&L artwork.

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:50 PM

Just back from the day job. Knackered but still up for a listening party tonight! Join in and follow/use #XTCmusic from 9pm BST!

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 12:06 PM

Join the ORANGES AND LEMONS listening party tomorrow night! Fruit optional, but your own access to the album a must. #XTCmusic

@alisoneales.com Sep 16, 2026, 8:50 PM

I didn't even know there was a video for this song. Sooty and Sweep are in it. My dad is going to lose his mind at this #XTCmusic

@rahrahrock.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:39 PM

Thanks, Gayle. Super fun, as usual. #XTCmusic

@rahrahrock.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:38 PM

A Psaucerful Of Pswindon was excellent at the last XTC fan fest. #XTCmusic

@alisoneales.com Sep 16, 2026, 8:38 PM

Thanks again to @mealygarage.bsky.social for tonight's @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social. Really looking forward to Oranges and Lemons as it includes probably my favourite #XTCmusic song (at the moment)

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:35 PM

And that's our last visit to The Dukes! Thanks again to all who joined in! On the 30th September, we'll be returning to XTC and listening along to 1989's ORANGES AND LEMONS. Please join in then if you can and do spread the word! #XTCmusic

Graphics for the next XTC Listening Party. Shows cover of the Oranges and Lemons album. Text reads:
"XTC Listening Party.
Wed 30 Sept - 9pm (BST)
Oranges and Lemons (1989)

Tracklisting - Garden of Earthly Delights - Mayor of Simpleton - King For A Day - Here Comes President Kill Again - The Loving - Poor Skeleton Steps Out - One Of The Millions - Scarecrow People - Merely A Man - Cynical Days - Across This Antheap - Hold Me My Daddy - Pink Thing - Miniature Sun - Chalkhills and Children. #XTCmusic"

@colinmathstutor.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:32 PM

Been thinking the same thing too this evening. All these rejected songs make such coherence when done this way. #XTCMusic

@benbaker.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:32 PM

I really do think they made an error not making this an XTC track as its a stunning piece of music that not nearly enough folk know. #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:31 PM

And we bring tonight's listening party to an end with PALE AND PRECIOUS, a Beach Boys homage - though apparently when Brian Wilson heard the track he thought it a nod to Paul McCartney instead. #XTCmusic

A promo image of The Dukes of Stratosphear from their Psonic Psunspot album.

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@benbaker.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:30 PM

Are you affiliated? #XTCmusic

@rahrahrock.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:30 PM

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social I love the fact that pretty much all of these songs were all rejected at some point for XTC but re-purposed for The Dukes. #XTCmusic

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:28 PM

THE AFFILIATED - Intended for inclusion on the next XTC album (which would be 1989's Oranges and Lemons), The Affiliated was instead slightly tweaked to give it a Ray Davies/Kinks vibe and added to Psonic Psunspot. #XTCmusic

Newspaper clipping from Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Sat 22 Aug 1987. Text reads:

"The Dukes of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot. Virgin V2440.
My first thought on this LP was what a lusciously over-the-top gatefold sleeve. Second thought - who are The Dukes of Stratosphear? I can't say for sure but will give you my educated guess at the end of this review. In the meantime, let me tell you something about the music. It's very late sixties-ish, powered by flowers and totally mind-expanding. The songs are constructed in the classic psychedelic style - lots of phasing and tape effects (electro-digital these days, of course), and acid-influenced lyrics touching on the Edwardian humour the Beatles so-often used.
Between some tracks there's even the awestruck child talkover gimmic employed by Traffic on Hole In My Shoe (I climbed on the back of a giant albatross... that kind of thing.) And throughout the proceedings the listener happily stumbles across various musical methods nicked from..."

@rahrahrock.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:27 PM

@xtclisteningparty.bsky.social If you haven't heard or watched it yet, there was a recent interview with John Leckie talking about The Dukes: thestrangebrew.co.uk/video-john-l... #XTCmusic