New TV Smith Album & book
NOW AVAILABLE IN STORE
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Sat 23 Sep 2017 |
EXETER - Velveteen
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| TV plays an up close and personal early evening solo show at the Velveteen Clothes Emporium in Exeter Fore Street. Doors 6:30 pm, show starts 7:00pm. |
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Fri 29 Sep 2017 |
GLASGOW - McChuills
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| Support from Alan Bishop (acoustic Red Eyes) |
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Sat 30 Sep 2017 |
SCUNTHORPE - Lincoln Imp
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| With The Kingcrows, One Chapter Down, Patched Up Parachutes and Neve Stokoe. All this for just £11 advance or £12 on the door. http://www.wegottickets.com/event/411184 |
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Wed 04 Oct 2017 |
FRANKFURT - Ponyhof
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Thu 05 Oct 2017 |
ESSEN - Freakshow
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Fri 06 Oct 2017 |
MüLHEIM (RUHR) - AZ
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Sat 07 Oct 2017 |
BIELEFELD - Plan B
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Fri 20 Oct 2017 |
MAIDSTONE - Flowerpot
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| A return appearance for TV at this great little real ale pub in Maidstone. Free entry too! |
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Sun 22 Oct 2017 |
PORTSMOUTH - Tea Tray Café
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| Strictly limited number of tickets available for this early evening performance in an intimate seated venue. Doors 18:00, finish 20:00. |
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Sat 28 Oct 2017 |
DUBLIN - Rebellion Festival
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| The Rebellion Festival comes to the Voodoo Lounge in Dublin for two days - both days now SOLD OUT. |
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Sun 29 Oct 2017 |
DUBLIN - Toners
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| For anyone who was unable to see TV at yesterday's sold out gig at the Voodoo Lounge - here's another chance. A post-Rebellion wind-down afternoon show at Toners, on Baggot Street. Support from Pete Hollidai (from The Radiators), Monica & The Explosion, and J'aime Rachelle. All this for ten euros! Early show 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm. |
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Sat 04 Nov 2017 |
PENZANZE - Punx Picnic
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Sun 05 Nov 2017 |
PLYMOUTH - Underground
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| With Attila The Stockbroker and TS Idiot. |
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Fri 17 Nov 2017 |
ILFRACOMBE - Punk Festival
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| TV plays the first day of this three day festival with accommodation at Ilfracombe Holiday Park. Already confirmed: Ruts DC, Subhumans, Rezillos, 999, Lurkers, Discharge, Chron Generation Y, Resistance 77 and many more. Tickets from www.solidentertainments.com |
Germany
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Fri 24 Nov 2017 |
DüSSELDORF - Pitcher
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UK
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Fri 15 Dec 2017 |
STOURBRIDGE - Katie Fitzgeralds
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Sat 16 Dec 2017 |
SOUTHAMPTON - Café Reflections
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| Support from Who Killed Nancy Johnson? and Dan O'Farrell's Difference Engine. |
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29 Apr 17 |
Useless re-release |
| To mark the TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers play "Useless" tour starting next week, Drumming Monkey records are to re-release the Useless album in LP format. Unavailable for years, this new limited edition will come in pink vinyl in a gatefold sleeve. First sales on the tour will be at the Karlsruhe gig in the Alte Häckerei on 5th May. Also available will be a brand new limited edition LP of "I Delete" on clear vinyl, as well as "Useless" on CD. Full dates for the tour in the gig list over on the left... |
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28 Nov 16 |
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| All dates now confirmed for next May's European tour which sees TV & The Bored Teenagers playing the entire "Useless" album. Also confirmed: a "Best of Adverts" and a "Best of TV" set at Rebellion 2017. Many more 2017 solo gigs just added to the gig list too! |
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01 Nov 16 |
"Alternative Top 50" now available! |
| TV Smith's first-ever lyric book is now available in the webshop and ready for shipping next week. The book presents fifty of his best songs as poetry in an exquisitely designed paperback, including an extensive foreword by Henry Rollins. News of a deluxe limited edition hardback collectors’ version, featuring a 2 track 10” vinyl collaboration between TV and Rollins will follow later in the year. |
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10 Oct 16 |
Gigs 2017 |
| First gigs for next year now announced in the gig guide over on the left. |
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30 Sep 16 |
Pre-orders for "Alternative Top 50" |
TV's new book of lyrics, "The Alternative Top 50," is now available to pre-order on Amazon, and will be on sale at gigs and from this website from the beginning of November.
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
Germany: https://www.amazon.de/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
France: https://www.amazon.fr/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
Japan: https://www.amazon.co.jp/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
USA: https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Alternative-Top-50-Tv-Smith/dp/1905792689
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07 Sep 16 |
"Alternative Top 50" launch announced! |
| TV's first ever book of lyrics is to be released on November 3rd at the Stoned Bar in Leipzig, where he will be reading a selection of lyrics from the book and playing some songs too. Books will be on sale at the gig, and shortly after through the webshop on this site. |
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20 Aug 16 |
Shop Useless again! |
| Useless has been out of print for a few years, but now it is available again at TV gigs and from The Shop on this site!
www.tvsmith.com/shop |
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18 Aug 16 |
TV on the radio (again) |
| TV is to join Tom Robinson on his BBC 6Music show this Saturday, 20th August. TV will be on in the final hour (11:00 pm in the UK) and will be discussing, among other things, his forthcoming lyric book, as well as sharing a few of his favourite records with the listeners. |
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09 Jul 16 |
Useless again! |
| For those who have been trying to get a copy of "Useless: The Very Best Of TV Smith"... Good news! The CD has been out of print for a few years now but will be available again from the middle of July - only at TV gigs and from The Shop on this site. And it will back to the usual price, not the huge amounts currently being asked on eBay! |
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05 Jun 16 |
Lyric book! |
| Coming soon! The first ever book of lyrics by TV Smith. Published by Foruli Codex, “The Alternative Top 50” presents fifty of TV’s best lyrics in the format of a poetry book. stunningly designed by Andy Vella. With a projected release date of Autumn 2016, the book will launch in two editions: a straightforward paperback, as well as a limited collector's hardback including a ten inch vinyl disc featuring a two track collaboration between TV and Henry Rollins. Watch this space for more information and details of how to pre-order!
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TV's books of tour diaries
TV's tour diaries - available at most gigs, at the webshop on this site and through the Arima Publishing website
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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 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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27 Aug 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Dortmund, Germany (26th Aug 2017) added by |
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12 Jul 17 - Setlists
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Setlist for Stamford, UK (31st Mar 2017) added by
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25 Jun 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Essen, Germany (25th Jun 2017) added by |
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23 Jun 17 - Setlists
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Setlist for Vienna, Austria (8th May 2017) added by
Setlist for Southampton, UK (8th Apr 2017) added by
Setlist for Maidstone, UK (29th Apr 2017) added by
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Setlist for Dresden, Germany (10th May 2017) added by
Setlist for Leamington, UK (15th Apr 2017) added by
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Setlist for Guildford, UK (9th Jun 2017) added by
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Setlist for Linton, UK (10th Jun 2017) added by
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22 Jun 17 - Setlists
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Setlist for Düsseldorf, Germany (13th May 2017) added by
Setlist for Sourton, Nr Okehampton, UK (24th Mar 2017) added by
Setlist for Karlsruhe, Germany (5th May 2017) added by
Setlist for Coesfeld, Germany (12th May 2017) added by
Setlist for Bristol, UK (8th Jun 2017) added by
Setlist for Prague, Czech Republic (9th May 2017) added by
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Setlist for Uttoxeter, UK (4th Jun 2017) added by
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09 Mar 17 - Setlists
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Setlist for London, UK (8th Jan 2017) added by
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Setlist for Groningen, Netherlands (20th Jan 2017) added by
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04 Mar 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Rotterdam, Netherlands (19th Feb 2017) added by |
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02 Mar 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Apeldoorn, Netherlands (18th Feb 2017) added by |
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01 Mar 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Oberhausen, Germany (17th Feb 2017) edited by |
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20 Feb 17 - Setlists
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| Setlist for Oberhausen, Germany (17th Feb 2017) added by |
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