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Easter Theatre
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Wikipedia article
"'Easter Theatre'" is a song written by Andy Partridge of the English rock band XTC, released as the lead single from their 1999 album 'Apple Venus Volume 1'. According to Partridge, the lyrics were an attempt to match a "muddy" ascending chord progression. "There's the little melodic figure at the beginning, which I thought sounded medieval and earthy, combined with placid, droning high keyboard chords, which sound like you're floatingso it suggested floating over a land."
He considered "Easter Theatre" one of the few "perfect songs" of his career, feeling that he had "exorcized a lot of those kind of Lennon-and-McCartney, Bacharach-and-David, Brian Wilson type ghosts out of my system by doing all that." He jokingly apologized for "the fake Brian May guitar solo ... I thought it was really incongruous, but everyone thought I should leave it." Demo and instrumental versions of the song appear on 'Homespun' (1999) and 'Instruvenus' (2002), respectively.
Personnel
'XTC'
* Andy Partridge vocals, guitar
* Colin Moulding bass, backing vocals
* Dave Gregory mellotron, acoustic guitar, keyboard programming
'Additional performers'
* Prairie Prince drums, percussion
* Steve Sidwell trumpet
References
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