“They had started out as a guitar-based new wave band, Mean Street, but the dawn of 1978 saw a change of name to Tubeway Army, albeit the new wave element was still to the fore (they supported The Skids at gigs in the summer of ’78). By the end of the year, a debut album ...
Looking through our SwindonWeb archives recently we stumbled across a date that will bring back memories for many of you who enjoyed the late Punk/Romantics era of the early 1980s. It was in February 1982 that arguably Swindon's greatest-ever band, XTC, released their most successful single,...