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last updated: 15 May 12

UK Booking:
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Tel : +44 (0) 7884 348176
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Germany
Thu 17 May 12 HANAU - Brückenkopf
TV back for his second visit to the Brückenkopf - this time FREE ENTRY!
Fri 18 May 12 FüRTH - Umsonst und Draussen Festival
Präsantiert von Wilderer 4.9! Please note the change of venue: this gig was originally planned for the Wilderer bar in Nürnberg, but TV will be now be playing instead at the Umsonst und Draussen in nearby Fürth. As the name suggests, this is a FREE ENTRY open air festival! TV onstage at 23:00. Also on the bill are Eddie & The Hot Rods, Electric Fetus, Strongbow, and The Lost Ways.
http://umsonstunddraussen.con-action.net/
Sat 19 May 12 CHEMNITZ - Rock\'n\'Ink Festival
Messe Arena Chemnitz. TV onstage 18:30.
Finland
Wed 23 May 12 TAMPERE - O\'Haras
http://www.gastropub.net/oharas/
Thu 24 May 12 HELSINKI - On The Rocks
Fri 25 May 12 JYVäSKYLä - Musta Kynnys
Sat 26 May 12 KOUVALA - Rytmikatti
UK
Sat 02 Jun 12 SHOREHAM-BY-SEA - Glastonwick Festival
Sun 03 Jun 12 BATH - Last Jubilee Festival
http://www.lastjubilee.co.uk/
Sat 09 Jun 12 LONDON - 12 Bar
with The Bleach Boys and special guests Garden Gang! Doors 7:30. Advance tickets £6.
Sun 17 Jun 12 PORTSMOUTH - Punk by the Sea Festival
Fri 22 Jun 12 SOUTHEND-ON-SEA - The Railway
Railway Hotel, Clifftown Road, Southend SS1 1AJ. Tel: 01702 343194
info@railwayhotelsos.co.uk
Make sure you come early for the two brilliant supports: Andy J. Gallagher (whose new album “Helicopter, Dolphin, Submarine” was produced by Roman Jugg, ex the Damned), and Dick York, orginally from Basildon band Sta Prest, but more recently playing with Vom Ritchie in “Cryssis.” It looks like being a great night, and even better - entry is absolutely FREE!
Thu 05 Jul 12 HULL - Adelphi
Supporting Rory McLeod.
Fri 06 Jul 12 YORK - Basement @ City Screen
With Jake And The Jelly Fish + special guest. 13-17 Coney Street, York, YO1 9QL Phone: 0871 704 2054. Tickets £6 adv, £8 otd.
www.thebasementyork.co.uk
Slovakia
Fri 20 Jul 12 PIESTANY - PUNKACI DETOM punk festival
www.punkacidetom.sk
UK
Fri 03 Aug 12 BLACKPOOL - Rebellion Festival
This year TV plays 3 sets: with The Valentines, with Leigh Heggarty, and solo! Dates and times tbc.
Sat 04 Aug 12 BLACKPOOL - Rebellion Festival
This year TV plays 3 sets: with The Valentines, with Leigh Heggarty, and solo! Dates and times tbc.
Sun 05 Aug 12 BLACKPOOL - Rebellion Festival
This year TV plays 3 sets: with The Valentines, with Leigh Heggarty, and solo! Dates and times tbc.
Germany
Wed 08 Aug 12 HAMBURG - Knust
TV back at the Knust, this time in the more intimate setting of the bar venue!
Thu 09 Aug 12 KöLN - Sonic Ballroom
Fri 10 Aug 12 KARLSRUHE - Wagenburgfest
Wagenburg Karlsruhe, Haid-und-Neu-str. 159, 76131 Karlsruhe
Sat 11 Aug 12 DüSSELDORF - Tube
UK
Sat 01 Sep 12 BLADEFEST - Mick\'s Barn
TV to play in this year's Bladefest - the smallest and friendliest festival in the UK, in a secret location in Leicestershire! Also on the bill: Goldblade, Eastfield, Roughneck Riot, Rebel City Radio and a host of others. Early bird tickets for £12.50 available until 30th April, then £14. Tickets available now from www.goldblade.com shop - limited numbers available - children welcome. Tickets include overnight camping.
Austria
Fri 09 Nov 12 VIENNA - Arena
The Impossible Festival, with Punk Rock Boys (DE), Wild Evel & The Trashbones (AT), TV Smith (GB)
For more info go here: www.theimpossiblefestival.com

04 May 12 "Kalte Kuss" premiere tomorrow
Here's a short German report on the upcoming play...
http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/kultur/Kultur-in-der-Region-Schatten-der-Gesellschaft-draengen-ins-Licht;art764,3145618
24 Mar 12 Attend premiere

Attend the premiere of the play TV has written the songs on 'Dangerous Playground' for:

Der kalte Kuss von warmem Bier

www.theater-trier.de

Order tickets over the phone:  +49 (0) 651-7181818

The premiere will be on Saturday 5th May, and TV will play a short concert after the play. Anyone wanting to come to the first night should book now as it's expected to sell out very quickly.

24 Mar 12 Order new EP!
Order now the new TV Smith EP 'Dangerous Playground':
06 Feb 12 New EP cover
Here exclusively the cover of the new TV Smith EP 'Dangerous Playground':
02 Feb 12 UK Subs tour - extra dates
The tour with the UK Subs, which kicks off next week, is now complete. Check the gig list for recently added dates in Tilburg, Rome, Regensburg and Strasbourg.
19 Jan 12 New record news!
TV Smith is to rush-release a new 4 track CD EP. Titled “Dangerous Playground,” the record comprises four new songs specially written for the play “Der kalte Kuss von warmem Bier” (the cold kiss of warm beer) by German playwright Dirk Laucke, which will premiere in the Stadttheater in Trier on May 5th. The play concerns a former East German border guard and a soldier recently returned from Afghanistan, who break out from a clinic where they are being treated for alcohol addiction and take refuge in a run-down rock and roll bar. After the two men take action to defend the bar’s owner from her aggressive boyfriend, the situation spirals into violence and the past comes back to haunt them...

TV was invited by the director Ingrid Müller-Farny to write four songs exclusively for this production of the play, and also to appear in specially shot video clips which will be integrated into the story on stage. The songs address some of the major themes in the play:

1. DER STACHELDRAHTMANN
TV’s second-ever German language song concerns the bad conscience of the former border guard Maik, taking the form of a ghostly presence that only he can see: der Stacheldrahtmann, “the barbed-wire man.”

2. THE ROCK’N’ROLL
A song about the broken dreams of freedom after German reunification, embodied in the failed rock and roll bar run by the character Elaine.

3. THE DRINK
The subject that brings all the characters in the play together but also drives them apart with horrific consequences.

4. DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND.
A song for the character Richard, a soldier back from the war zone. What made him go to war in the first place and what did he find when he got there? Can life ever be the same when he comes home? Can he ever really come home?

The EP will be limited to 1,000 copies and will initially only be available at TV’s gigs, at the Trier Stadttheater during the run of the play, and by mail order through the website. A strictly limited quantity will be held back for later release through the Boss Tuneage label. Details of how to pre-order coming soon!
12 Jan 12 Cabaret Futura
Full details of the not-to-be-missed Cabaret Futura line-up now in the gig list!
07 Jan 12 UK Subs tour part 2
The technical problem with the site has been fixed (erm...we didn't have a flag for Slovenia...) and the rest of the dates for the tour with UK Subs are now in the gig list. And don't all those flags look nice! There should be a few dates still to come, watch this space...
06 Jan 12 New songs at Cabaret Futura
TV will be making a 20 minute guest appearance at Richard Strange's Cabaret Futura in London this month - and using the opportunity to preview songs he has written for the play “Der kalte Kuss von warmem Bier,” which will open in Trier in May.
05 Jan 12 UK Subs tour
First dates for the tour with UK Subs now up...more to follow (just as soon as we overcome a small technical difficulty with the website...er, Klaus!!) (Fixed, cheers Klaus)




TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers
perform 'Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts' Live at the 100 Club.

TV's book of tour diaries - Getting There

The book is available at all the gigs, and through the Amazon and Arima Publishing websites


TV Smith: Your Ticket Out Of Here - The Complete Collectors Guide
Slaby Witness, Sleaze, the Adverts, TV Smith's Explorers, Party Line, High, Production House, Cheap... the TV Smith story is one of rock's richest, filled with some of the most exhilarating music of the past 30 years. And Your Ticket Out Of Here is the first comprehensively detailed guide to every last note of it. Written by Dave Thompson - editor and publisher of the legendary TV Times fanzine.
paperback book, 170 pages. PRICE $25
https://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do?id=3405418



TV TIMES - THE COMPLETE SERIES FOR SALE

Between 1980-1984, members of TV Smith's fan club received a free fanzine, running from two to twenty pages, for 43 issues.
The entire series has now been archived on CD, 357 black/white pages of text and images (.bmp) comprising a priceless 357 page archive not only of TV Smith, Adverts and TV Smith's Explorers news, interviews, reviews etc, but also a wealth of related artists... Richard Strange (including a 1981 interview), Doctors of Madness (including a complete band history), Lords of the New Church (three very early interviews, pre-first album), Ian Mitchell Band, Last Touch, many more.
Includes discographies, biographies, family trees, press cuttings, much more. Unpublished in any other form. Photos were taken from one of no more than three surviving complete sets, and reflect the occasionally haphazard photocopying that characterized the series - however, all are readable, while the bmp/bitmap format allows the user to print and reconfigure pages at will.
Disc also includes a couple of unpublished issues, and color originals of several covers.

PRICE $15 + shipping: $1 USA, $2 international.
Contact quatrmass@aol.com to reserve your copy and for payment details.


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