XTC, Shriekback Members Unite

Monstrance is the title of a trio comprising Andy Partridge (of XTC), Barry Andrews (early XTC, then Shriekback) and Martyn Baker (Shriekback). Forming around a year ago, the band's idea was to come together...

and make an improvised record, under the production overseeing of Future Sound of London guitarist Stuart Rowe. Andy's Ape House label will be releasing the offspring of that collaboration later this spring, and if you go here you'll be able to read some of the band's blogging accounts of the processes, and there's a video there, too.