01. Playground (4'16)
02. Stupidly Happy (4'14)
03. In Another Life (3'35)
04. My Brown Guitar
(3'51)
05. Boarded Up (3'22)
06. I'm the Man
Who Murdered Love (3'44)
07. We're All Light
(4'39)
08. Standing In For Joe (3'42)
09. Wounded
Horse (4'11)
10. You and the Clouds Will Still Be
Beautiful (4'18)
11. Church of Women (5'06)
12. The Wheel and The Maypole (5'57)
Andy Partridge:
vocals and guitar
Colin Moulding:
vocals and bass
extra musicians:
Chuck Sabo: drums
on tracks 1,6,7,8,9,10,11.
Praire Prince:
drums on tracks 2,3,4,12.
Matt Vaughn: programming.
Nick Davis: the more complicated
keyboard parts.
Kate St. John: oboe.
Simon Gardner: flugelhorn.
Gavin Wright: 1st violin.
Patrick Kiernan: 2nd violin.
Peter Lale: viola.
Caroline Dale: cello.
Holly Partridge: backing vocals on
Playground
2000. Produced and mixed by Nick Davis.
Recorded at Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Studios,
Oxfordshire, 1998/99.
Mixed at Rockfield Studios, Monmouthshire.
Recording engineers: Nick Davis, Alan Douglas, Barry Hammond and
Haydn Bendall.
Mix Engineer: Simon Dawson.
Mastering by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
Sleeve art by Andrew Swainson at Cactus.
Portrait photography by Steve Gullick.
Photography by Peter Ashworth for Playground pictures.
All tracks written by Andy Partridge except 3, 5, 8 by
Colin Moulding.
Wasp Star -
Apple Venus Volume II was XTC's more muscular and guitar
orientated flipside to the orchestral AV Volume 1.
Dating from 2000, the album is the band's last studio
release to date.
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