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Are You Misreading Me?

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  Having started our history of XTeeHee in the middle, let's venture back a little closer to the beginning, or as close as one dare get, and the band's second album 'GoPoo'. Not included on the album was the single 'Are You Misreading Me'. The band still included keyboard player Barry Bismuth, who would soon take a powder... Randy: “Barry had this enormous organ, which was probably part of our appeal on stage. He used his penis as a piano substitute. Quite an interesting effect. It inspired the song ‘My Pink Clarinet’, which people have always thought was about my penis. Now the truth can be told... it was actually about Barry's.” Corin: ‘Everything Barry ever played sounded like the theme from Take Your Pick.’* * British TV gameshow of the 1950s and 60s hosted by Michael Miles, who is also namechecked in the band's single 'Don't Call Me Pop' - Ed. How did the album cover come about? And, more to the point, why? Randy: “We went to the famous ...
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Fossil Fools: a Spotted History of XTeeHee

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After the prefab four, Rutland's foremost pop musical exponents must surely be XTeeHee, the new wave pop combo who saw chart success in the late 70s and early 80s with hits like 'Nigel Caught on the Hop' and 'Senseless Working Overtime.' Not many people are aware that the band even existed, and many confuse them with a similarly-named combo from Swindon.  Now, for the first time in pubic, sorry, public... no, as you were... the members of XTeeHee speak exclusively to Noddy Gardener about their career, their music and, of course, their trousers... The band formed, purely by accident, in 1975, when founder member Randy Parchment was holidaying in the West Country: "I went to see this band of farmboys playing in a barn and drank so much industrial strength scrumpy I accidentally said yes when they asked me to join. Well, not to put too fine a point on it, they asked me if I'd play all their instruments for them. They needed some songs as well, so I went to the...
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