TV Gigs 2017

[EastKentTaff]

The Flowerpot, Maidstone 20.10.17

Tv return to The Flowerpot for the 2nd time this year and played to a large audience, I would guestimate at around 100 spread over the 2 bars.   Support was from William Harper, quite similar in style to TV, I detected a couple of similar lines to TV's songs, which is not a bad thing.  TV began at 2210hrs and the set list was:-

No Control, Green Zone, We stand alone, 21, flavour, CITL, Replay, Delete, Lion, Useless, Drink, Big Fish, Expensive, Imm Rich, GBM, No Hope St, Overdose, String, Gen Y, GGE, BT, OCW.    RTD as encore.

1hr 20 mins of great entertainment.

No more news on the new album, apart from that it is progressing well.  Only 1 date with the Subs on the early 2018 tour, more dates with the Teenagers to be finalised, with possible ones in Hamburg and London.....  Now I dont want to jinx the latter but Mrs Taff is looking forward to London.....

Another good evening was had, no sign of Slaughterboy.....

[Gabumon]

Weit, an UK Subs Tour without TV?

That will be weird

[EastKentTaff]

Weit, an UK Subs Tour without TV?

That will be weird

I think he has done 5 years on the trot.

[EastKentTaff]

The Flowerpot, Maidstone 20.10.17

Tv return to The Flowerpot for the 2nd time this year and played to a large audience, I would guestimate at around 100 spread over the 2 bars.   Support was from William Harper, quite similar in style to TV, I detected a couple of similar lines to TV's songs, which is not a bad thing.  TV began at 2210hrs and the set list was:-

No Control, Green Zone, We stand alone, 21, flavour, CITL, Replay, Delete, Lion, Useless, Drink, Big Fish, Expensive, Imm Rich, GBM, No Hope St, Overdose, String, Gen Y, GGE, BT, OCW.    RTD as encore.

1hr 20 mins of great entertainment.

No more news on the new album, apart from that it is progressing well.  Only 1 date with the Subs on the early 2018 tour, more dates with the Teenagers to be finalised, with possible ones in Hamburg and London.....  Now I dont want to jinx the latter but Mrs Taff is looking forward to London.....

Another good evening was had, no sign of Slaughterboy.....

Setlists updated pretty swiftly may I just say.....

[Uli]

Thank you EKT for the setlist/review! 

Another good evening was had, no sign of Slaughterboy.....

Last we heard from him was on Thursday I think, he mentioned:

Suffering from Guinnessosis and sleep deprivation now...

UK Subs Tour without TV?

Will be difficult for them to know which time to go on stage, as no sweaty TV will enter the backstage at that point... 

[slaughterboy]

Another good evening was had, no sign of Slaughterboy.....

Last we heard from him was on Thursday I think, he mentioned:

Suffering from Guinnessosis and sleep deprivation now...

Managed to get over Guinnessosis by the drinking of, of course, yet more Guinness!

However, this caused me to forget certain things. Namely, the Maidstone gig, until I did remember it somewhere around 9pm. By then, it was a bit too late to get from SE London to Maidstone: a shame, as my drinking buddy for the evening, when told that I was missing a TV Smith gig, said "...Ooh, is ee the geezer oo does 'Gary Gilmour's Eyes'?...'

'Erm, yeah...' I said.

'...I'd go and see im just for that...' he says.

 

[Uli]

Since his excellent performance on ITAOME, Tim Renwick had disappeared from our "radar" a bit, but great to hear he'll be there tonight!
TV on FB:

Looking forward to meeting up in a few hours with my old buddy Tim Renwick and playing a few songs with him at the Highwayman, as well as enjoying sets from Pete Kliskey, Andy Thomas and Billy Liar. Hope some of you hardy Westcountry people will brave the 70 mph gales and come and join us.

[EastKentTaff]

Since his excellent performance on ITAOME, Tim Renwick had disappeared from our "radar" a bit, but great to hear he'll be there tonight!
TV on FB:

Looking forward to meeting up in a few hours with my old buddy Tim Renwick and playing a few songs with him at the Highwayman, as well as enjoying sets from Pete Kliskey, Andy Thomas and Billy Liar. Hope some of you hardy Westcountry people will brave the 70 mph gales and come and join us.

Ok, now here's one for the "rumour mill".   What was Mr R doing in darkest Devon??,  was there a possibility of Mr R joining Mr S on the new album.....

[Fred21]

Nah, I heard that Tim owed him a fiver!

[Uli]

What was Mr R doing in darkest Devon?

Well in the back of my mind the thought arose that he might live nearby...
In the interview (far from current, this was back in 2008) he mentioned Cornwall:
http://www.tvsmith.com/forum/index.php?topic=4659.0

As for the possibility of him contributing to TV's next album: would be great. 

[Gabumon]

Setlist comes over the next few days

[EastKentTaff]

Setlist comes over the next few days

I notice no Gilmore at The Pitcher...

[EastKentTaff]

Setlist comes over the next few days

I notice no Gilmore at The Pitcher...

And now there is..  must of misread the list.

[Uli]

Review of the last 2017 UK show:

http://louderthanwar.com/tv-smith-dan-ofarrell-difference-engine-cafe-reflections-shirley-live-review/

TV Smith never lets you down.  He always gives 100% when he plays. In a way, I wish he would slow down a bit for the odd song.  Pull up a stool and sing a song of adversity and triumph without feeling he has to be angry and railing against injustice and literally stamping his feet on the floorboards…  but he always plays a perfectly judged set of old songs, recent songs and brand new numbers and has a knack of tying them together into an over-arching narrative with a few words between each.

‘I Delete’ gets close to being a more restrained Smith song.  There are gentler sections to songs like ‘the Lion and the Lamb’ where there is some finger-picking rather than frantic strumming but, the overall impression is one of These Are The Things that Piss Me Off,   and So Much Injustice. So Little Time.  So his frantic playing suits the content.

Even his song intended to be a rallying cry of positivity ‘the Good Times Are Back’ -ends up being an angry, sarcastic anthem….   don’t get me wrong,  I love TV Smith – he is one of England’s most under-valued, under-appreciated (protest) songwriters.