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- Entertainment > Musicians & Bands Band reviews: XTC
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The true success stories of contemporary music are attributable not only to musical talent but to business savvy and a substantial amount of good luck. Numerous factors come into play when gauging the creative and commercial success of a band, and several artists who have seemingly had everything going for them artistically but never became as publicly popular as the quality of their music would suggest. XTC is once such band. Rising out of the "gritty little concrete industry blob" of Swindon (as it was described by guitarist, vocalist and main songwriter Andy Partridge), the band careene...
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Charles Crane
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Member since: March 2007
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