By The Way

Chris Twomey, author of the band's "definitive biography", called XTC: Chalkhills and Children, summed it all up rather well.

He wrote: "After 15 years of making records, XTC remain an enigma: they don't tour, they have few hits, they refuse to conform to the rudiments of the music industry, yet perversely that industry still recognises them as a rare and precious commodity.
They invoke a respect - in some a passion - that would dwarf many artists selling ten times the volume of records."