Where Is The Meeting Place

1987 single by XTC

"The Meeting Place"

Single by XTC

from the album Skylarking

B-side

"The Human being Who Sailed Around His Soul"

Released

2 February 1987 (1987-02-02)

Recorded

1986

Length

three:xiv

Label

Virgin

Songwriter(south)

Colin Moulding

Producer(s)

Todd Rundgren

XTC singles chronology

"Grass"
(1986)

"The Meeting Identify"
(1987)

"Dear God"
(1987)

"The Coming together Identify" is a song written past Colin Moulding of the English rock band XTC, released on their 1986 album Skylarking. Information technology was the second single issued from the album and reached number 100 on the U.k. Singles Chart.

Groundwork [edit]

"The Meeting Identify" is built on a "circular" guitar motif that reminded Moulding of the children'due south programme Toytown. He characterised it as "a childish, nursery-rhyme, bell-similar, small town riff. As if you lot were looking down on Toytown, and it was me in the landscape, meeting my wife beside the manufacturing plant or something, in our teens."^[1] The industrial noises at the beginning were samples sequenced on a Fairlight,^[1] ane of which was the sound of the Swindon Works hooter, which was used as a signal for its workers. Swindon Works airtight within a yr of the song'south recording.^[2] Among influences on the song, Moulding cited Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones' "Factory Girl" (1968), and Billie Jo Spears' Blanket on the Basis" (1975).^[1]

Promotional video [edit]

The Aqueduct 4 music program The Tube produced videos for "The Coming together Place" and "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" filmed in Portmeirion with the band wearing costumes from The Prisoner.^{[ citation needed ]}

Track listing [edit]

12-inch vinyl, side one

"The Meeting Place"
"The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"

12-inch vinyl, side ii

"Terrorism" (home demo)
"Let's Make a Den" (dwelling demo)
"Find the Fox" (domicile demo)
"The Troubles" (dwelling house demo)

Charts [edit]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Bernhardt, Todd; Moulding, Colin (26 Jan 2009). "Colin discusses 'The Meeting Identify'". Chalkhills.
^ Farmer, Neville (1998). XTC: Vocal Stories: The Exclusive Authorized Story Backside the Music . Hyperion. p. 189. ISBN978-0-7868-8338-7.
^ "Official Singles Chart Acme 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 12 November 2018.

External links [edit]

"The Meeting Place" on Chalkhills