Q. Question one: As a fan of The Residents, I'd like to know how you got to sing on their wonderful "Commercial Album", and do you still enjoy what they do?


Question two: Will the project proposed by Mark "Go Home Productions" Vidler ever happen? I hope it does. Love his 'mash-ups', and, who knows, it could create a 'new-wave' of XTC fans!


Vincent Cannata

A. Hey! Vinnie baby. The simple truth of the Residents rubdown was that they were fans of XTC and came to some shows in San Francisco. At one of these gigs they approached me and asked could I come over to their studio to sing on a track of the record they were working on, the Commercial Album.


I was delighted and of course agreed. They chose for the me the suitably Residential nom de mic of Sandy Sandwhich, put some coal in the headphones and off we went.


I had no instruction as to how any melody for the song went (titled Margaret Freeman) but was just encouraged to get odder and odder. I have most of their albums but haven't kept up on their work in the last 5 to 10 years.


I'm lost as to what the specific "Mark Vidler project" in question would be? Sorry, fill me in some more daddio.