Chips From The Chocolate Fireball [Remastered] - Dukes Of Stratosphear (The)

Swindon: it's more than railway museums and a mad roundabout, you know. ==The Everyday Story Of Smalltown== For a town of its size, it's made a disproportionate contribution to popular culture. Latter-day Status Quo imitators Oasis named themselves after Swindon's swimming pool and leisure centre (can't they rename the sports complex 'Coasting Along On Former Glories That Weren't Actually That Glorious When You Think About It' in tribute? No?). The ...
...and TV presenter Mark Lamarr too. As was Justin 'Forever Autumn and all those terrible Moody Blues songs while giving Richard Clayderman his look' Hayward. And singing-and-thesping damsel Billie Piper. Like the others cited, Billie wasted little time in leaving the place when she got the chance? Why? Because Swindon has developed a reputation as a place that time forgot, oft mocked by comedians (Mr Izzard in particular) and whose glories decreased ...

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Well, the title of this review is a bit of giveaway, isn't it? What you have here is actually that well known popular Swindon punky/new wave beat combo XTC hiding their identities under the nom de disque of The Dukes of Stratosphear. And not only that you get two, yes TWO albums ("25 O'Clock" and "Psonic Psunspot") all rolled up into one. But why did they do this? In December 1984 Virgin (XTC's label) owed them some money, ( for a production job ...
...the form of free studio time. The band, along with producer John Leckie found an old studio equipped with 60's gear and decided to record a mini album in homage to the psych bands of the 60's, using only the techniques available during the 60's. The result was the mini-album "25 O'Clock", released on 1st April 1984(!). To keep their true identities secret the band even gave themselves pseudonyms. The album sold so well (better than the 'real' XTC ...

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