Dick Cuthell is a British musician and record producer.
 He plays flugelhorn, cornet, and trumpet, amongst a range of other brass instruments, including tenor horn and valve trombone.
 Cuthell is best known for his work with The Specials and Rico Rodriguez.
 He also collaborated with bands such as Madness, Eurythmics, Fun Boy Three, XTC, and The Pogues.
 In addition to a range of horns, Cuthell also plays bass, keyboards and percussion and is a composer and arranger.
Finn Andrews (born 24 August 1983) is a British musician.
 He is the lead singer and songwriter of London-based band The Veils.
 His father Barry Andrews was a founding member of 1980s bands XTC and Shriekback and later went on to play with Iggy Pop, Robert Fripp and David Bowie.
Travis is a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1990, composed of Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion).
 The band's name comes from the Harry Dean Stanton character Travis Henderson from the film "Paris, Texas".
 The band is widely claimed by the media as having paved the way for other bands such as Keane and Coldplay to go onto achieve worldwide success throughout the 2000s, particularly through the band's "The Man Who" (1999) album.
Hipgnosis was an English art design group based in London that specialised in creating cover art for the albums of rock musicians and bands.
 Notable commissions included work for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, the Pretty Things, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Def Leppard, Paul McCartney & Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, the Police, Rainbow, Styx, Pezband, XTC and Al Stewart.
Skylarking is the ninth studio album by the English rock band XTC, released on 27 October 1986.
 Produced by American musician Todd Rundgren, "Skylarking" is a loose concept album centered around various cycles in life, such as the seasons, days, and years.
 The title was chosen as a double entendre, referring to a type of bird (skylark), as well as the British navy term "skylarking", which means "fooling around".
 "Skylarking" later became XTC's best-known album and is generally regarded as their finest work.
The Sterns are a band from Boston, Massachusetts.
 Their songwriting and performances are often compared with bands such as The Smiths, Squeeze, The English Beat, and XTC.
 The band members were previously members of the popular American Ska bands, Mass.
 Hysteria and Westbound Train.
 The song "Supreme Girl" is a playable song on the 2008 video game Rock Band 2.
XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972 and active until 2006.
 Led by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding, the band emerged from the late 1970s punk and new wave explosion, later playing in a variety of styles that ranged from angular guitar riffs to elaborately arranged pop.
 The band failed to maintain popular success in the UK and US, partly because they did not fit into contemporary trends.
 They nevertheless earned a devoted cult following.
Brian Doherty is an American drummer, singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and educator based in New York City.
 After starting his career as a member of the rock bands The Silos and They Might Be Giants, he has also worked with artists such as XTC, Freedy Johnston, and Ben Folds and contributed to movie soundtracks.
 As of 2014 he has released three albums of royalty-free drum tracks for songwriters, and in 2012 released his debut solo project, "Treat + Release."
The Cuckoo's Nest (1976–1981) was a punk rock nightclub that was located at 1714 Placentia Avenue in Costa Mesa, California.
 There were often confrontations with the punks from the Cuckoo's Nest and the cowboys from Zubie's, which shared a parking lot.
 The police were constantly harassing the punks.
 Club owner Jerry Roach fought a number of court cases in an effort to keep the club alive, and in his 1981 film on the subject Urban Struggle he suggested that perhaps this was the first time that the authorities would stamp out a fad.
 The club was a hub of the punk rock in California.
 The club is notable as being home to the first slam pit.
 Jim trash from the crowd invented the slam dance at the Cuckoo's Nest according to American hardcore.
 the Bands such as 999 (band), The Ramones, XTC, The Damned, Redd Kross, Black Flag, T.S.O.L., Circle Jerks, the Vandals, Social Distortion, Agent Orange (band), Blondie Chaplin, JFA, David Johansen, uk Squeeze (band), the Adolescents, X (American band), the Go-Go's, The Lords of the New Church, Bad Brains, the Cramps, Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys, the Dickies, Violent Femmes, Ultravox (with John Foxx), the Motels, the Bangles, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Cale, Suicidal Tendencies, Los Lobos, Fear (band), Wall of Voodoo, the Misfits (band), the Knack, the Crowd, The Blasters, 45 Grave, The Weirdos, China White (band), The Minutemen (band), Civil Defense (band), 20/20 (band), Pere Ubu, Suburban Lawns, sub humans, Magazine (band), The Plimsouls, Rubber City Rebels, Berlin (band), Middle Class (band), all played gigs there.
 The club was memorialized in the Vandals song "Pat Brown", a song about a club goer who actually tried to run the cops into the ground and urban struggle or I want to be a cowboy...couldn't make it as a punker.
Kevin Roentgen (pronounced rent-gehn) is a singer/songwriter/producer and formerly guitarist for UK Platinum, Brit Award-winning American rock band Orson, who sometimes performs under the moniker, Praying Hands.
 Roentgen is previously known for fronting L.A. rock bands American Pearl (Wind-Up Records) and SOUL (Elektra Records).
 He is currently the singer/guitarist for the hard rock trio, Goldsboro.

Question: Are Travis and XTC bands American?
Answer: no