Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) Explained

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Type:	studio
Artist:	XTC
Cover:	WaspStarAppleVenus2cover.jpg
Released:	23 May 2000
Recorded:	April–December 1999
Studio:	Idea Studios, Wiltshire and Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, England
Length:	50:54
Label:	Cooking Vinyl
Producer:	Nick Davis
Prev Title:	Apple Venus Volume 1
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Homegrown
Next Year:	2001

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released 23 May 2000 on Cooking Vinyl/Idea Records. Defined by bandmember Andy Partridge as the "eclectric" counterpart to 1999's Apple Venus Volume 1, it consists of rock-based material largely written between 1994 and 1996.^[1] Wasp Star reached number 40 on the UK Albums Chart. In 2002, the group released an instrumental version of the album entitled Waspstrumental. XTC dissolved in 2006, leaving Wasp Star their last studio album to date.

Personnel

XTC

• Colin Moulding – vocals, bass guitar, harmonica on "In Another Life", guitar on "Boarded Up"
• Andy Partridge – vocals, guitar

Additional personnel

• Caroline Dale – cello
• Nick Davis – keyboards
• Simon Gardner – flugelhorn
• Patrick Kiernan – violin
• Peter Lale – viola
• Holly Partridge – backing vocals on "Playground"
• Prairie Prince – drums (2–4, 12)
• Chuck Sabo – drums (1, 6–11)
• Kate St. John – oboe
• Matthew Vaughan – programming
• Gavyn Wright – violin

Production

• Haydn Bendall – recording engineering
• Nick Davis – producer, mixing, recording engineering
• Simon Dawson – mix engineer
• Alan Douglas – recording engineering
• Barry Hammond – recording engineering
• Bob Ludwig – mastering

Charts

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Peak position
UK Albums Chart	40
US Billboard 200	108

External links

• Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) on Chalkhills

Notes and References

1. XTC: Take Another Bite.... Lexicon. 1999. 11.