Pitchfork

[Posted Friday, October 31st, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

XTC lovers, prepare to weep your hippy tears: the projected Virgin-years DVD, For Vidiots Only, has been postponed yet again. The DVD was to have been a collection of classic videos, rare live footage, etc. and was slated for release by the end of the year. Unfortunately, Virgin didn't have the balls to cowboy up and get the thing out, or at least so says the official XTC website: "The projected XTC DVD and the reshuffle/repackage projects touted by Virgin are all on ice at the moment. Virgin legal dept seem unwilling to negotiate the terms of the old contract up into the 21st century. Hence stalemate. We'll keep you posted." Put on ice, huh? Faster than Jack White's finger, I bet! Hopefully the DVD can find its way out into the waiting arms of XTC fans everywhere, much like the slew of recently re-released classic albums. Gotta love Skylarking.

But wait, there's more! Andy Partridge, XTC frontman-to-the-max, has been working with singer Sophie Ellis Baxter. One of the songs to result from this classy collaboration, entitled "I Come All Over Summer" (did I say classy?) will appear as a b-side.

That's it. Oh, oh, wait... just kidding! Andy, being the busy guy that he is, has been working with Fox TV to pen the theme song to its new show, Wonderfalls. According to the official site, six songs were recorded, one of which is called "These Voices" and another one super-cleverly entitled "I Wonder Why The Wonderfalls." Did I make fun of these guys for being crazy-ass hippies yet? If one of these compositions doesn't make it to America's fourth-finest network soon, I'm sure there will be ample fuel to ignite several more volumes of Fuzzy Warbles.