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XTC Homespun
The Apple Venus Volume One Home Demos

"This track starts with the very first mumbled mono cassette sketch, here titled 'I Like That'. As soon as I get an idea I slam it down quick, so as not to forget anything, onto the nearest tape deck to hand. All that exists of this early capturing is just under one minute's worth"

"We then cut to the eight track ADAT demo I made when the song was all written. Me slapping on my own legs because I wasn't sure of what the finished drumming should be. But hey!, both Haydn and Nick liked the self flagellation percussion so we kept the idea in, right to the end. I think for a long time I was a little embarrassed by the light whimsy of this song and would play the demo for people muttering a presage something like 'Oh, it's the soundtrack of the Paul McCartney fan club barbecue, ha ha'. Well, I was right and I was wrong. Sure it has more than a smack of Macca about it, but that's nothing to apologize for. The man's been an enormous influence on me and is bound to surface all over the XTC catalogue, I guess he bobs up equally with Brian Wilson from time to time. Damnit, why did I have to grow up during the sixties?"

Andy Partridge