Library Rock's Backpages

XTC: Optimism Is Next Week’s Thing

Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 18 September 1980

TERRY CHAMBERS said, "I want to talk to you". I said, "Fine". Fine. Then the drummer walked away and I didn't see him again until early evening when I looked up and there he was, suspended fifty feet above me in the basket of a hot-air balloon bearing the legend ‘XTC At The Manor’.

Total word count of piece: 1802

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.