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You can hear them all over White Music and Go 2, and it only starts to get out of our system over the next few albums. I still love it." [11] Virgin Records immediately earmarked "Making Plans for Nigel" as the lead single off XTC's Drums and Wires, [12] although the band did not expect that the single would be successful. [8]
Drums and Wires is the third studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 17 August 1979 on Virgin Records.It is a more pop-orientated affair than the band's previous, Go 2 (1978), and was named for its emphasis on guitars ("wires") and expansive-sounding drums.
The single "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) marked their commercial breakthrough and heralded the reverberating drum sound associated with 1980s popular music. Between 1979 and 1992, XTC had a total of 10 albums and 6 singles that reached the UK top 40, including "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" (1980) and "Senses Working Overtime" (1982).
"Making Plans for Nigel" Russell Mulcahy: 1980 "Generals and Majors" Unknown "Towers of London" Brian Grant: 1981 "Respectable Street" Unknown: 1982 "All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)" Unknown "Senses Working Overtime" Brian Grant "Ball and Chain" "Beating Of Hearts" Unknown: 1983 "Wonderland" Peter Sinclair "Love on a Farmboy's Wages" Unknown ...
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Colin Ivor Moulding (born 17 August 1955) is an English bassist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the core members of the rock band XTC.Moulding wrote their first three charting UK singles: "Life Begins at the Hop" (1979), "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and "Generals and Majors" (1980).