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XTC: Old Waldorf, San Francisco

Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 15 March 1980

XTC HAVE toured the East Coast a few times now, but this is their San Francisco debut. Incredibly, Drums and Wires is their first release in the States, a first taste that forgets about the old Barry-Andrews-keyboard-dominated XTC. A new start and the beginning of their Stateside campaign, guitars to the fore. The word however seems to be out, the Waldorf is full enough and excited enough, though the crowd remains irritatingly subdued to the end, as if in awe of XTC's skill.

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