XTC: The Road to Oranges & Lemons poster

XTC: The Road to Oranges & Lemons(1989)

Name: XTC: The Road to Oranges & Lemons
Director: Dave Gregory
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Music
Released: 1989-01-01
Duration: 10 min
Cast: Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, Dave Gregory

Andy Partridge Colin Moulding Dave Gregory

The Road to Oranges & Lemons is a promotional short for the 1989 release of Oranges & Lemons. It features Andy, Colin, and Dave documenting and spoofing XTC's career from its formation and meeting with Barry Andrews, to recording its albums, to the "Dear God" controversy, and finally to Oranges & Lemons. The three make use of toys, pictures, and briefly a potato, to represent (and poke fun at) the different people XTC meets, as well as background sound effects and backdrops to represent different locations.