As Steve Conte releases his Fourth of July single, the guitarist and singer talks about writing songs with his XTC hero, joining the New York Dolls and playing on stage with Chuck Berry. He also gives tantalising pointers to his forthcoming album of co-writes with Andy Partridge.

This episode of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast also includes comments from Andy Partridge himself, plus sad news about Ian C Stewart.

Music courtesy of Don Kerr and Communism.

Steve Conte

Limited edition Fourth of July on 7" blue vinyl

Communism

XTC fan tribute compilations by the late Ian C Stewart:

https://archive.org/details/TheXtcFansTribute-Skylacking

https://archive.org/details/TheXtcFansTribute-ObsceneCollection

https://archive.org/details/TheXtcFansTribute-BeastsIveSeen/

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