Skylarking
Andy Partridge discusses his role on The Overview.
Andy Partridge was in the bath when he listened to The Overview from start to finish for the first time.
“My laptop was on the toilet, lid down, obviously,” he says. “I lay there, toying with my loofah, so to speak, and I thought, ‘Jesus, this is gigantic-sounding.’”
The former XTC man deserves a little of the credit. He was enlisted by Steven Wilson – a devotee
“Declan Colgan [head of Panegyric Records] said, ‘This chap Steven Wilson is mixing some King Crimson reissues in surround sound for us and he’s doing a fantastic job. Would you be interested if we let him lose on what remains of the XTC catalogue?’ And I said, ‘Sure, go ahead.’ Even though I had no idea what surround sound is. I’m barely in stereo.” of Partridge’s old band – to write lyrics for Objects: