AndyPartridge

Heaven help them if they follow the Swindon model!

I haven't thought about a solo album much, because I don't -- and never have -- thought of myself as a solo artist. I've always been part of a group. Seeing as I don't have a group...

I'm mulling over the idea, so never say never, but my mindset has always been to be part of a group. I'm not of the Bowie or Prince mold -- much more of a Beatles or Rolling Stone.

It tends to be "Easter Theatre," because that ticks a lot of boxes, and I think we finally climbed on a podium level with The Beatles with that number -- if that's not too immodest to say. I also loved arranging the orchestral ideas.

Yeah, very much so. I thought he'd be the last member of the gang left standing.

We speak about every six months. He usually rings me up a little "relaxed" -- before he goes to bed. I saw him a few years ago when his mum died, and he and I went out together for a drinking session one afternoon -- very enjoyable. He lost his Australian accent in 10 seconds flat!

I do think XTC were underrated. We'll probably have to physically die off before we get more general kudos -- and if we don't, I won't mind, because I won't be here! You can't be annoyed AND dead, can you??

2 -- Nothing, because it primarily wasn't about being commercially successful. It was about having fun and being ourselves, and if we changed it, we wouldn't have been ourselves. I've sometimes thought, would I go back and give everything on the first three albums a disco bass drum? But it would have killed it -- it wouldn't have had that same spark.

3 -- No, not at all. I can't tell people because I promised I wouldn't. It's nobody you know. But it's definitely not my dong!

Will check out the videos later.