What are all the messages scratched in the run-out grooves of XTC records?
Oddly enough, there are very few secret messages scratched in the wax, but some of them include: English Settlement UK LP: Waddies 6X Rules Hic! Great Fire UK 7-inch: REGIMENTAL Great Fire UK 12-inch: NO TIME FOR SARGEANT’S Grass UK 7-inch: HAYSIDE / DEAR TODD Grass UK 12-inch: CUT WITH A MOWER AT THE TOWNHOUSE / NO COMMENT The Big Express UK LP: BASTARD SON OF HARD BLUE RAYHEAD Johnny Japes and His Jesticles: Bags of Fun With Buster: COMPLETELY BOLLOCKULAR / FLUMP! King for a Day UK 12-inch: ONE FOR HIS NOB / TWO FER DOIN’ IT The Dukes of Stratosphear: 25 O’Clock UK EP: TO BE TAKEN TWICE DALI / I CAN SEE FOUR MOLES The Dukes of Stratosphear: Psonic Psunspot UK LP: LOOSELY FROM THE STIFF BEACH… / WITH PINK WARMTH The flip side of the Grass 12-inch single included both “Extrovert” and “Dear God”. “Hard Blue Rayhead” was a working title for The Big Express. Both “Pink Warmth” and “Stiff Beach” were pre-XTC bands; Dave Gregory formed “Pink Warmth” circa 1967, Andy Partridge formed “Stif
