Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR On the Romance of Being

On the Romance of Being consists of 8 movements that sonically sprawl across post-gospel

Too Nice To Talk To (dubweiser)

showing a more serious side to the group’s lyricism

David Byrne’s recent works include the launch of Reasons to be Cheerful

I’ve got this idea I thought might be good for you…” A text from Paul Weller was the only inspiration Steve Pilgrim needed to finish the writing of his muchanticipated sixth album ‘Beautiful Blue’

Skylarking: CD / Blu-Ray JFDR On the Romance of BeingSkylarking: XTCs most commercially successful album was, for many years, also its most mythical with tales of lost multi track tapes (sadly true of other XTC albums but not this one), a song originally dropped from the album only to be replaced when it inadvertently became a hit single in the USA, a perfect match, on paper, between the ideal Britpop band a decade before the term was invented & an Anglophile super producer that turned rather imperfect