The New TV Smith Album
COMING INTO LAND
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France
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Fri 10 Feb 12 |
ST. GERMAINE - Le Clef
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Netherlands
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Sat 11 Feb 12 |
TILBURG - Little Devil
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| With UK Subs. Replacement for the cancelled show in Antwerp. Please note this is an afternoon show, kicking off at 15:00! |
Germany
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Sun 12 Feb 12 |
KARLSRUHE - Hackerei
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Tue 14 Feb 12 |
DüSSELDORF - Stone
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Wed 15 Feb 12 |
FRANKFURT - AU
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Thu 16 Feb 12 |
GöTTINGEN - MUSA
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Fri 17 Feb 12 |
BERLIN - Lido
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Sat 18 Feb 12 |
COTTBUS - Gladhouse
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Poland
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Sun 19 Feb 12 |
WARSAW - Proxima
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Czech Republic
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Tue 21 Feb 12 |
PRAGUE - Lucerna Music Bar
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Austria
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Wed 22 Feb 12 |
VIENNA - Arena
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Czech Republic
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Thu 23 Feb 12 |
OSTRAVA - Barrak
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Fri 24 Feb 12 |
VALASSKE MEZIRICI - M Club
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Slovakia
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Sat 25 Feb 12 |
BRATISLAVA - Randall
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Sun 26 Feb 12 |
MARTIN - FBC Club
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Slovenia
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Tue 28 Feb 12 |
LJUBLJANA - Gala Hala
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Italy
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Thu 01 Mar 12 |
PESCARA - Zu Bar
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Fri 02 Mar 12 |
MILAN - Leoncavallo
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Sat 03 Mar 12 |
SIENA - Sonar
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Sun 04 Mar 12 |
BARI - Demodé
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Mon 05 Mar 12 |
ROME - Traffic Club
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Germany
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Wed 07 Mar 12 |
REGENSBURG - Alte Mälzerei
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Thu 08 Mar 12 |
MUNICH - Feierwerk
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Switzerland
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Fri 09 Mar 12 |
LUZERN - Sedel
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Germany
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Sat 10 Mar 12 |
FREIBURG - Walfisch
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France
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Sun 11 Mar 12 |
STRASBOURG - Molodoi
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Germany
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Tue 13 Mar 12 |
PFORZHEIM - Haus der Jugend
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Wed 14 Mar 12 |
AACHEN - Musikbunker
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Fri 16 Mar 12 |
HAMBURG - Fabrik
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Sat 17 Mar 12 |
HUSUM - Speicher
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Netherlands
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Sun 18 Mar 12 |
DEN HAAG - Bazart
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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. |
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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! |
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12 Jan 12 |
Cabaret Futura |
| Full details of the not-to-be-missed Cabaret Futura line-up now in the gig list! |
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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... |
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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. |
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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) |
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30 Dec 11 |
Gigs 2012 |
| Here they come...the first gigs to be announced for 2012 are now in the gig list over on the left. Coming soon: details of TV's six week European tour with the UK Subs starting in February. Watch this space! |
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07 Dec 11 |
Eastfield for Ipswich |
| I'm happy to announce that the ever-wonderful Eastfield have agreed to come and support me and the Valentines at the show at Ipswich McGintys this coming Friday. Hope to see some of you there! Cheers, TV |
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29 Nov 11 |
Liverpool saved! |
| I'm happy to say we've found a replacement venue so the Liverpool gig is back on, on the original date. Details over in the gig list. |
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29 Nov 11 |
Punk & Beyond |
| The art show "Punk & Beyond" curated by Gaye Advert had a successful opening in London last weekend and got in the TIme Out "Top Five" openings list. To celebrate, TV will be playing two short unplugged sets at the gallery this Thursday. Signal Gallery, 32 Paul Street, London EC2A 4LB. Gallery open from midday, live music between 7:00 and 9:00pm. Free entry. |
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TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers
perform 'Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts' Live at the 100 Club.
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TV's book of tour diaries -
Getting There
The book is available at all the gigs, and through the Amazon and Arima Publishing websites
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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
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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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Archive History
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17 Jan 12 - Setlists
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Setlist for Gateshead, UK (14th Dec 2011) edited by
Setlist for London, UK (16th Jan 2012) added by |
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16 Jan 12 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Rennes, France (14th Jan 2012) added by |
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22 Dec 11 - Setlists
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Setlist for Southampton, UK (8th Dec 2011) edited by
Setlist for Ipswich, UK (9th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Bristol, UK (10th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for London, UK (11th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Liverpool, UK (12th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Leeds, UK (13th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Gateshead, UK (14th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Dundee, UK (16th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Manchester, UK (17th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Birmingham, UK (18th Dec 2011) added by
Setlist for Wolnzach, Germany (16th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Munich, Germany (17th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Altötting, Germany (18th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Sebersdorf, Bad Waltersdorf, Austria (19th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Graz, Austria (20th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Vienna, Austria (21st Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Traunstein, Germany (22nd Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany (23rd Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Berlin, Germany (24th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Ludwigsfelde, Germany (25th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for Nürnberg, Germany (26th Nov 2011) added by |
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09 Dec 11 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Southampton, UK (8th Dec 2011) added by |
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05 Dec 11 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Essen, Germany (4th Dec 2011) added by |
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04 Dec 11 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Jülich, Germany (3rd Dec 2011) added by |
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02 Dec 11 - Setlists
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| Setlist for London, UK (1st Dec 2011) added by |
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15 Nov 11 - Setlists
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Setlist for Mainz, Germany (12th Nov 2011) added by
Setlist for London, UK (4th Nov 2011) added by |
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26 Oct 11 - Setlists
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Setlist for Tokyo, Japan (22nd Oct 2011) added by
Setlist for Tokyo, Japan (23rd Oct 2011) added by
Setlist for Bad Hersfeld, Germany (8th Oct 2011) added by |
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25 Oct 11 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Blackpool, UK (9th Aug 2008) edited by |
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