{"id":706653,"date":"2026-07-23T07:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T07:10:10","slug":"xtc-fans-across-the-world-pay-for-new-tribute-to-rock-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706653\/","title":{"rendered":"XTC fans across the world pay for new tribute to rock band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A  punk rock band that rose to international fame in the 1970s has been honoured with a new artwork in their hometown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swindon band XTC, best known for their hits including Making Plans for Nigel and Senses Working Overtime, have attracted a global cult following despite having not toured since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The XhibitA sculpture was installed in Swindon&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Park on Saturday after fans from around the world backed a fundraising campaign by local super fans Mike Smith and Graham Carter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former band member and drummer Terry Chambers said that it was &#8220;humbling&#8221; to be remembered so many years later, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s something I never imagined. I&#8217;m stuck for words.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A punk rock band that rose to international fame in the 1970s has been honoured with a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}