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The New TV Smith Album
IN THE ARMS OF MY ENEMY

The new TV Smith album titled "In The Arms Of My Enemy". The CD, featuring eleven songs, has a line up of musicians including Vom on drums, Tim Renwick on guitar and Tim Cross on keyboards, and has been mixed by Jon Caffery.
Releases:
Germany - Drumming Monkey records, distributed by Rough Trade. Cat. no DRUM 04
UK - Boss Tuneage, distributed by PHD. Cat. no BTRC024



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Gigs
last updated: 31 Aug 10

UK Booking:
Crucialtalent@googlemail.com
Tel : +44 (0) 7884 348176
www.myspace.com/crucialtalent
www.crucialtalent.co.uk

Italy
Sat 04 Sep 10 MILAN - Bar Ligera
Via Padova 133, Milan. Solo acoustic sets from TV, Spizz, and Honest John Plain (The Boys). Doors open 21:00
UK
Sat 11 Sep 10 SHOREHAM-BY-SEA - Ropetackle Arts Centre
Attila The Stockbroker celebrates 30 years of playing live. John Otway and Luke Wright are special guests, and TV will play as a duo with Leigh Heggarty.
Sun 12 Sep 10 UXBRIDGE - Load Of Hay
Duo gig with Leigh Heggarty.
Villier Street, Uxbridge UB8 2PU
Italy
Sat 25 Sep 10 BOLOGNA - Covo
TV SMITH & THE VALENTINES + Borhead. Covo Club, Viale Zagabria 1, Bologna
www.covoclub.it
UK
Thu 30 Sep 10 WINCHESTER - The Railway
Fri 01 Oct 10 LONDON - Montague Arms.
289 Queens Road (corner of Kender Street), Peckham SE15 2PA. Train: New Cross Gate/ Queens Road (Peckham). Bus: 53, 453, 177, 225, 171, 172, 136, 321, 21, 436
Benefit for the Justice for Gary Critchley Campaign http://www.justiceforgarycritchley.org/
With Advanced Idea Mechanics (Hydra/ Leech Woman/ Third Door from the Left), Shocks of Mighty (Hagar the Womb), more tbc. 8.30 - 12.00 pm. TV plays mid-evening. £5.00/ £3.00 (concessions)
France
Sat 02 Oct 10 PARIS - La Miroiterie
88 rue de Ménilmontant, Paris 20ème
Germany
Wed 20 Oct 10 COLOGNE - Stereo Wonderland
Trierer Straße 65, 50674 Köln
Thu 21 Oct 10 DUISBURG - Steinburch
Lotharstraße 318-320, 47057 Duisburg
Fri 22 Oct 10 DüSSELDORF - Pitcher
Oberbilker Allee 29, 40215 Düsseldorf
Sat 23 Oct 10 BALINGEN - Sonnenkeller
Viehmarktplatz 8, 72336 Balingen
Austria
Fri 29 Oct 10 GRAZ - Explosiv
Bahnhofgürtel 55a, Graz
Sat 30 Oct 10 VIENNA - Arena
Baumgasse 80, 1030 Wien. "Vienna Fucked Up" festival, with Trigger Happy Cowboys, Lazy Bombs, Wilde Zeiten, Rasta Knast. Doors 19.00h.
Germany
Wed 03 Nov 10 HAMBURG - Silber
Silbersackstr. 27, 20359 Hamburg St. Pauli. With Walking Naked Mary. Doors 20:00h
Thu 04 Nov 10 BONN - Bla
Bornheimer Straße 20, 53111 Bonn
Fri 05 Nov 10 SCHWäBISCH GMüND - Esperanza
Benzholzstraße 8 , 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd. "10 Jahr Esperanza" festival. Doors 20:00h
Sat 06 Nov 10 FRANKFURT - Backstage
Rothschildallee 36, 60389 Frankfurt
Wed 10 Nov 10 CHEMNITZ - Di Franco
Hainstraße 85, 09130 Chemnitz
Fri 12 Nov 10 BERLIN - Wild At Heart
Wiener Str. 20, 10999 Berlin
Sat 13 Nov 10 NEUBURG A.D. DONAU - Überlauf
Am Graben 179, 86633 Neuburg
Sun 14 Nov 10 MUNICH - 59 to 1
Sonnenstraße 27 - 80331 München. With Garden Gang. Doors 20:30h. Entry 10 EUR.
Tue 16 Nov 10 WOLNZACH - Stilwirt
Wendenstraße 30, 85283 Wolnzach
Wed 17 Nov 10 ERFURT - Engelsburg
Allerheiligenstraße 20/21, 99084 Erfurt
Thu 18 Nov 10 COBURG - Bei Adam
Ketschengasse 50, 96450 Coburg
Fri 19 Nov 10 NüRNBERG - Kunstverein
Frankenstr. 200, 90461 Nürnberg. With Garden Gang
Sat 20 Nov 10 ASCHAFFENBURG - Hannebambel
Kleberstr. 4, 63739 Aschaffenburg
Ireland
Fri 26 Nov 10 DUBLIN - The Village
With Steve Ignorant & Band, and Paranoid Visions

31 Aug 10 TV & Valentines - one more for 2010!
TV Smith plays one more gig with the Valentines to celebrate the re-opening after the summer break of the Covo club in the band's home town of Bologna, Italy. The gig takes place on September 25th and will be the last chance to see TV on stage with the Valentines in 2010. Note: Ryanair flies direct to Bologna from London Stansted.
25 Aug 10 Reminder
A quick reminder for Londoners about Friday's show: http://thequietus.com/articles/04858-news-sex-pistols-book-launch-this-friday
12 Aug 10 French TV
In October TV is to play his first Paris gig for more than fifteen years. Details in gig list.
02 Aug 10 Free TV
On August 27th TV will play a short set of Adverts songs at the launch for a new book from Norwegian author Trygve Mathieson covering the Sex Pistols gig in Oslo in 1977. You can find information about the book here: http://www.begeistring.no/side.aspx?nr=164
The book launch takes place in London, at Rough Trade East, 91 Brick Lane. All are welcome, and entrance is absolutely FREE!
02 Aug 10 Rebellion News
Confirmed stage times for Rebellion: TV & The Valentines play on Saturday 7th at 18:30 in the Empress Ballroom, The Valentines play their own set on Sunday 8th at 16:25 in The Arena. TV is also to be interviewed live on stage by John Robb as part of this year's Rebellion literary festival. Exact timing for this has still to be confirmed, but it will be sometime between 13:00 - 15:00 on Sunday 8th.
06 Jul 10 Autumn Tours
TV is happy to announce a major new tour of Germany and Austria in the Autumn. Some details still have to be fixed, but most of the dates are already up on the gig list over on the left...
06 May 10 Preorder TV's new album
Preorder now your copy of TV Smith's new CD:
SPARKLE IN THE MUD


CLICK HERE TO PREORDER!
ALL PREORDERS WILL SHIP WEEK BEGINNING MAY 17TH.
06 May 10 New shop now online
The new TV Smith-webshop is now online! www.tvsmith.com/shop.shtml
27 Apr 10 "Sparkle" Release Date
"Sparkle In The Mud" - the first volume of lost songs and demos from TV Smith, covering the period 1979 to 1983 - is confirmed for release on 24th May in the UK through Boss Tuneage records, catalogue number BTRCRSO43. Release date in Germany will be 27th May, also through Boss Tuneage. The new tvsmith.com webshop will go live for pre-orders on Earthbound weekend, May 15th, and those attending Earthbound will be able to buy exclusive advance copies at the gigs.
07 Apr 10 TV Times - Back From The Dead - Part 1
TV Times - Back From The Dead! This is the return of TV Smith’s magazine TV Times (No Relation) originally written in the 80s by Dave Thompson (now one of the world’s top five rock music biographers). TV Times 44 focuses on the stories of TV Times and TV's upcoming new CD Sparkle in the Mud. Sparkle in the Mud is the long awaited release of TV Smith's legendary 80s Demos. 80 minutes of rare, sublime and spellbinding songs. Exclusive cover-shot featured in this edition of the TV Times! Get your copy of TV's magazine now through this free download:

http://www.tvsmith.com/downloads/tvtimespringedition.pdf

Enjoy the read and please post your feedback in the forum at http://www.tvsmith.com/forum/index.php?topic=6063.0




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.


Archive History

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