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WANTED- live recordings:
Feb. 27, 2006 - Bush Hall London
March 22, 2006 - Camden
Barfly
Sept. 18, 2006 - Union Chapel
Oct. 12 2006 - Enfield
Dec. 4, 2006 - The Windmill, Brixton
Jan. 30, 2007 - 96 Feet East, Brick Lane, London
Jan. 20, 2007 - Rex Club, Soho, London
May 19th, 2007 - 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London
July 7th, 2007 - Rip It Up Festival, Sweden
Oct. 19th, 2007 - Principal Club Theater, Thessaloniki, Greece
Oct. 20th, 2007 - Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece
Oct. 21st, 2007 - Acoustic gig in Athens, Greece
Dec. 16th, 2007 - The Rhythm Factory, London
Jan, 9, 2008 - Nottinghill Arts Club, London
Jan. 17, 2008 - Rhythm Factory, London
Feb. 16, 2008 - 12 Bar Club, London
Feb. 27 - Rhythm Factory, London
March 13, 2008 - 12 Bar Club, London
Please email for more information: tvpsrecordings@yahoo.com
Please email!
APRIL 2008
JOWE HEAD IS IN THE HOUSE~!
Alright - Mr. Jowe Head is in NY (upstate and down) for a whirlwind tour of art and music
Please show your support!!:
Thursday April 10th: recording of radio session at WFMU in New Jersey . Transmission expected on Saturday April 12th.
Friday 11th & Saturday 12th April: concerts at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St , New York City . Doors open at 8pm
Sunday 13th April: Performance at Eat Records, Mesrole Street , Brooklyn NY (time tbc)
Friday April 18th: Concert at Claude's Bar, Phoenicia NY starting at 8pm. Also playing JRBW.
An exhibition, showing different pictures, is in the solo room at the Arts Upstairs Gallery in Phoenicia NY, and it opens
Saturday April 19th at 6pm for 4 weeks..
March 2008
1980 John PEEL session available for download:
http://www.speedyshare.com/421250374.html
January 2008
NEW Television Personalities 7" single!
The Good Anarchist ER-256 Single 7"
Tracklist: The Good Anarchist/She's Always Been There For Me
available at http://www.elefant.com/new-releases
TWO new gigs announced. Please see Gig page for details!
December 2007
Television Personalities supporting Pete Doherty acoustic set at the Rhythm Factory in London at 16-18 Whitechapel Rd. on
Sunday 16th December.
november 2007
Two new TVP's singles are due to be released on the Spanish label Elefant Records sometime near the start of 2008.
Single #1: 'The Good Anarchist' b/w 'She's Always Been There For Me'
Single #2: '...And People Think That We're Strange?' b/w 'A Glimpse Of My Genius'
July 2007
TVPs live in Sweden at the
Rip It Up Festival, in Saffle, Sweden 7/07/2007
Here are a couple of vids from the performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxibhZmWndM
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8N0yARmQo
May 2007
TVPs are due to appear as the last band on Saturday MAY 19th at the 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street, London. They are slated to
be on at around midnight.
March 2007
Television Personalities Tribute Volume 2: I Would Write A Thousand Words is now available for ordering through The Beautiful Music The second volume in this series contains more wonderful cover's and tributes to the TVPs. 20 songs and first 200 copies
ordered will include a bonus disc!!
February 2007
'My Dark Places' remix EP out now
Released yesterday by Domino Records USA is a 12" EP of remixes of tracks from 'My Dark Places' Track Listing:You
Kept Me Waiting Too Long (E*Vax [Ratatat] Remix)/ My Dark Places (I Will [Battles] Remix)/
All The Young Children (Rainbows In Tunnels Mix By Lingling)/ She Can Stop Traffic (Black Dice Remix)
New album "Are We Nearly There Yet?" is now released.
Overground Records of the UK has released a new 13 track CD on 19th February 2007. Track Listing:
Are We Nearly There Yet?/ The Peter Gabriel Song/ The Eminem Song/ I Get Scared When I Don't Know Where You Are/ I See Dead
People/ If I Could Write Poetry/ If I Should Fall Behind/ Coltrane's Ghost/ Mr Brightside/ All The Midnight Cowboys/ All The
King's Horses/ You Are Loved/ It's All About The Girl
January 2007
TVPs have 2 gigs scheduled this month:
Rex Club, Soho, London W1V 20/01/2007
96 Feet East, Brick Lane, London E1 30/01/2007
December 2006
Daniel Treacy announced that there will be 2 new TVP releases in the coming future.
A new CD due Feb. 20, 2007 on Overground
Records. It is a collection of 15 recordings made in the sessions prior to the recording of My Dark Places.
Also due out is a 4 track CD of remixes of 4 songs from My Dark Places. It is due out on Domino in Feb. 2007
November 2006
TVPs will be playing a gig at The Windmill, Brixton, London on December 4th 2006. See http://www.windmillbrixton.co.uk/ for
more info
TVPs will be playing at 96 Feet East, Brick Lane, London E1 Jan. 30, 2007
Dan Treacy is featured on the new Dustin's Bar Mitzvah album. He "raps" over the track entitled "Artrocker".
Jowe Head - now has a MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/jowehead/
October 2006
TVPs live at "Bar Form", Enfield, North London 12/10/2006 Website: http://www.myspace.com/redgriffinrecords Recording
wanted
September 2006
Dan Treacy and co. playing the Syd Barrett Tribute Night, "Union Chapel" London N1 18/9/2006 Website: http://www.unionchapel.org.uk Recording wanted
AUGUST 2006
Jowe Head has a new CD out available September 1st from Topplers Records http://www.topplers.net.
It is called "From A Parallel Universe". Buy it!
Not too much new to report on way of TVPs; Promo CD copies of "She Can Stop Traffic" are making the rounds courtesy of Domino
Records.
MAY 2006
Yesboyicecream (www.yesboyicecream.com)has released a tribute to the June Brides called "Still Unravished" The TVPs play
the June Brides "I Fall".
Domino Records has released a compilation called "They'll Have To Catch Us First".
TV Personalities is represented with the title track of their latest album "My Dark Places" (and also album title).
WANTED- recordings of Feb 27 Bush Hall, and March 22 Camden gigs. Please email!
February 2006
TVPs will be playing at the "Love Music Hate Racism" show Sunday, February 26th, 2006 at Bush Hall, Shepards Bush, London
MARCH 2006
We are shocked and saddened to report the death of Nikki Sudden, who died last Friday (3/24/06) following his show at the
Knitting Factory in Manhattan. No cause of death is reported
The video for the new single "All The Young Children On Crack" is available for download at:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/downloads/
The TVPs new single now available for ordering! Check out:
http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/?page=releases&releaseID=621
January 2006
Date change for gig at Camden Barfly- Television Personalities will be playing at the Camden Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm
Road, on Wednesday 22nd March.
The February issue of 'Dazed & Confused' magazine includes a feature on Dan Treacy for their Cult VIP series.
New issue of Uncut Magazine had interview with Daniel Treacy and also includes new TVP song on the CD
The Times (with Edward Ball) are playing live in London on March 3rd at the Dirty Water Club
DECEMBER 2005
new TVP gig announced
More of a "solo Dan gig" according to Mr. Treacy.
Camden Barfly (49 Chalk Farm Road) on Monday December 26th with Dustins Bar Mitzvah and Jamie T.
Domino Records announces the release of a new album and single by the TVPs. "My Dark Places" will be released on the 27th
February and the single "All The Young Children On Smack, All The Young Children On Crack" released on the 6th February
NOVEMBER 2005
Watch the new TVPs Documentary online:
TVPs doc on Swedish TV - SVT.SE
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=43453&a=475491/
WANTED A copy of the TVPs documentary in broadcast (vhs, or dvd) quality
Recordings of the TVPs live in London at The Luminaire Oct. 11, 2005 and Camden Barfly (49 Chalk Farm Road) fromMonday December
26th
sunday nov 20th Daniel and Edward are guest djs at kilburn luminaire..tsunami bebenfit featuring dustins bar mitzvah
TVPs documentary to air on Swedish TV, Monday Nov. 14
News on the new album - from Dan's blog:
ah! here is some breaking news.. finally,
the new tvps single will be released on feb 6th of next year..
the new album/cd will be released on feb 27th
the single is ALL THE YOUNG CHILDREN ON SMACK ALL THE YOUNG CHILDREN ON CRACK...
THE 7inch WILL HAVE ANY LOVE IS GOOD LOVE
ON THE B-SIDE.
.BELIEVE THE CD WILL HAVE SAME TWO TRACKS
PLUS..I CAN NEVER GO HOME ANYMORE(OLD SHANG GRI LAS SONG),,
THE ALBUM/cd IS CALLED MY DARK PLACES AND HAS 17 TRACKS..
THE VIDEO FOR THE SINGLE(WHICH DOES NOT FEATURE ANY TVPS..
IT
STARS DUSTINS BAR MITZVAH PLAYING OUR CHARACHTERS IS CURRENTLY BEING EDITED ...
MORE NEWS AS IT COMES IN.......
OH NEARLY FORGOT..TVPS WILL BE DOING DATES FRON FEB 6 ONWARDS..
ALL ABOARD!
October 2005
TVPS play "The Luminaire", 311 Kilburn High Road,in London, Tuesday October 11th. Doors open at 8
September 2005
gig announced
Tuesday 11 October - The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR Doors 8pm. Supports - The Pipettes & The Red Kites.
Tickets £6 advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/6868 or £8 at the door
And They All Lived Happily Ever After CD is released
On the Damaged Goods Label. Dan Treacy says: "rare and live material dating from 1981 right through to some of their latest
recordings from 2005. Dan Treacy says about this album: "I like to think of this as our odds and sods album � Sods
and Mods more like. It's literally been chosen by the 'fans'. People have their favourite memories � I'm pleased too
that we tracked down some oddities like the Abba cover 'The Visitors' and the Arthur Lee tribute 'You Are Something'".
August 2005
Damaged Goods is set to release new TVPs "And They All Lived Happily Ever After". Due out last week in August.
Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols played Part Time Punks on his radio show based in southern California - http://indie1031.fm/stevejones.html
2 August TVP gigs are now wonderful memories for the lucky fans who were at the happenings, with Jowe Head making a well receieved
appearance on bass for the 100 Club gig
July 2005
Dan Treacy has announced 2 upcoming gigs for London and Brighton in August
On August 2nd the TVPs will be playing at the 100 Club with Sportique and Mathew Sawyer and The Ghosts. Mathew Sawyer is,
of course, the current TVP drummer, and Sportique features ex TVP Mark Flunder. Rumour is that a very special guest will make
a guest apppearance with the TVPs for a song or two
TVPs will also be in Brighton on August 6th at the Hanbury Ballroom with Shrag
June 2005
TVPs DVD is released!
Each disc includes an insert that features original hand-drawn artwork by Daniel Treacy.
6 videos: The Painted Word, Strangely Beautiful, Salvador Dali's Garden Party, How I Learned To Love The Bomb, Privilege and
All My Dreams Are Dead
Cost is 10 pounds (20US should cover it), payable through Paypal to: vaa at maths.qmul.ac.uk (put together to form email address).
It is currently only in PAL format, so be sure your dvd player is compatable. A NTSC edition is in the works.
Ex and current TVP member Edward Ball played a solo gig on June 22nd. As our correspondent writes "Dan Treacy was there and
was invited on stage at the end to play a song. The track he played could be described as an experimental noise instrumental..."
Dan Treacy made an impromptu live appearance at the Subway Sect gig at the Polar Bear club in London's Soho on Friday 10th
June He joined the Sect on stage and attempted a few Television Personalities numbers
TVPs Tribute CD is released
Yes, the Beautiful Music label (www.thebeautifulmusic.com) out of Canada has released If I COuld Write Poetry: A Tribute
To Television Personalities
Tracklisting:
Lovejoy - Someone To Share My Life With
Nikki Sudden - If I Could Write Poetry
The Higher Elevations - Engine Driver
The Baskervilles - La Grande Illusion
The Thanes - World Of Pauline Lewis
Bartlebees - And Then Suddenly
Mandervilles - Where's Bill Grundy Now (Middle Mix)
Armitage Shanks - 14th Floor (Slight Return)
Sixtynine & The Continuous People - The Girl Who Had Everything
Miniskirt - A Good & Faithful Servant
The Paisley Shirts - Sad Mona Lisa
Spiggott v Zane - Salvadore Dali's Garden Party
The Container Drivers - A Picture Of Dorian Gray
Woog Riots - Television Personalities
No Men - Part Time Punks
Darrell Whitbeck - Stop & Smell The Roses
Nick Danger & the DCR - Diary Of A Young Man
The Happy Couple - The Dream Inspires
Biff Bang Pow - Someone To Share My Life With
May 2005
Due to illness the shows in Germany and Spain have been canceled. Recording for the new album is going well.
April 2005
Scottish gigs well attended. Mixed reviews. Sweden Cancelled on the 5th of May, A message from Dan on www.popaganda.se
reads: "i am really really sorry but for personal reasons we cant do the show. i am very upset about this but we just cant
make it... these things happen... we will come to stockholm [sometime]......with all respect danielx" TVPs may be back
in Sweden soon though, playing in Malmoe June 25 th at a party called “Perfect from now on”. More info here: http://www.inkonst.com/ Also
rumours of USA shows.
March 2005
Gigs for end of April and on through May posted in the "2005 Shows" page. Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Sweden scheduled.
March 2005
Damaged Goods to release new TVPs album is being called "but did they all live happily ever after...". and it
will be out in June or July, it's a mix of old and new stuff. See WWW.DAMAGEDGOODS.CO.UK for more info
"I Was A Mod Before You Was A Mod" is re-released on Overground Records with new liner notes by Ed Ball and artwork by Alison
Wonderland.
See www.overgroundrecords.co.uk for more details
TVPs tribute CD "If I Could Write Poetry" due for release in April.
Please see www.thebeautifulmusic.com for more details.
This will be cool! German gigs announced for May. Please see the "2005 shows" page for more details. (see tour poster to
the right).
February 2005
New TVPS gigs confirmed- Scotland 29 and 30 of April The Tryptch Festival.
MP3 of brand new TVPs song added to news page (above).
January 2004
The January 2005 issue of 'Mojo' magazine in the UK includes an interview with Dan Treacy.
December 2004
TVPs live at Bush Hall!
Dan Treacy and his newly reformed TVPs played to a starry eyed crowd at London's Bush
Hall on the 10th.
Daniel was backed by Edward Ball on bass, Mathew Sawyer on drums, Victoria Teulet
on vocals and as a special surprise Dave Musker lent a hand on the piano.
The show lasted close to an hour and
a half with 6 new songs being played.
Here is the setlist:
Rock and Roll
Three Wishes
My Dark Places
All My Dreams Are Dead
Hope Your Happy Now?
My Very First Nervous
Breakdown
Silly Girl
Sweetest Dreams
King and Country
Salvador Dali's Garden Party
And Then A Big Boy Came And Knocked It
All Down
Long Time Gone
Adventure Playground
The Smack (Get it Back)
No More I Hate You's
A Picture of Dorian
Gray
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives/Bike/My Generation/See Me Feel Me Photos from TVPs Bush Hall Gig
A big thanks
to Unpop for the photos of the gig:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44955593@N00/sets/52796/
and even more photos of the gig can be found here
courtesy of Bob at Under Exposed:
http://www.underexposed.org.uk/tvpersonalities/tvpersonalities1.htm
And a very special thanks goes out to our friend Filippo for Dan's setlist (image to the right).
Please thank them for the lovely photos, because we can't enough!
November 2004
Dan Treacy and his newly formed TVPs in studio to record.
16 new songs recorded and mixed. See Dan's journal for titles
October 2004
Dan Treacy is the celebrity DJ at the 'How Does It Feel?', on Friday 1st of October at the Canterbury Arms in Brixton. For
more info see: http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk
August 2004
Falling Uphill V/A CD Released with Unreleased TVPS song!
The finest indie rock from around the world. Lovingly produced and exhaustively compiled in a limited edition CD, FALLING
UPHILL features previously unreleased songs by indie pioneers the Television Personalities, Jowe Head of the Swell Maps, Barbara
Manning & The Go-Luckys!, Woog Riots, Katze, The Long Decline, Angel Racing Food, Sixtynine And The Continuous People, Aunt
Wayne, Milton Fisher, Olive's Hairy Custard, and The Container Drivers, along with super indie/rock/pop/punk songs from the
Baskervilles, The Big Empty, Swedish Whistler, Amanda By Night, The Bartlebees, Rockformation Diskokugel, Summer Factory and
more! NOW AVAILABLE!"
Please see http://www.windlessairmusic.com/ for more on how to get it!.
New York benefit for Dan Treacy goes well
from Rob Baskerville:The Television Personalities Benefit:
Total Online Donations: $514.45
(thank you Kathy, Filippo, Keg, Antoine, Jacques, Andreas, Joly, Steven, Mitchell, Darrell, Pascal, Andrew and the Scissor
Sisters)
Total Earnings From The Benefit Show: $620.00
Grand Total = $1134.45 for the benefit
I think that this is a marvelous achievement. Thank you everyone for being so generous. Dan requested that this money be
used for studio time. We will send it to the studio of his choice once it is booked. This is an unprecedented show of support
by the fans. You should all be very proud of what we accomplished.
Rob
www.baskervilles.net
July 2004
July 30th
"Danaid" - New York benefit show
Excellant New York City based group and huge TVP fans, The Baskervilles are busy organising a benefit show, with all
proceeds to be used to fund new recording sessions for Dan Treacy. The event is scheduled for Friday, July 30th at "Sin-e"
in New York. As of this posting, the lineup consists of My Favorite, Ira Robbins, The Mad Scene, The Baskervilles, The Insomniacs,
Burnside Project, Not The TV Personalities (covers band) - with more bands to be added
June 2004
June 15
Spanish TVPs Tribute released
A 7" on the Spanish label Discos Harte label has been recently released. The single features four Spanish bands covering
TVP songs: Thy Surfin' Eyes play a fine version of "Diary of a Young Man", while on the flip side TCR play am
amazing version of "I Remember Bridgette Riley". Other songs on this record is "Favourite Films" covered by Los Part-Time
Pops and Alpino take on "Smashing Time". The sleeve is a fabulous tribute to the Mummy Your Not Watching Me album.
Please go to:
http://www.discosharte.tk for more information!
June 12
Dan Treacy's web journal has been updated
June 12 - Jowe Head has a new single
New Jowe Head 7" single entitled "Merman Blues" now available on Toppler Records - http://www.topplers.net/
Both tracks
on the single, MERMAN BLUES & BABY BOUNCE were originally to be released on the legendary "Bobit Juice" LP.
Jowe's single
on Topplers records comes in a lavish fold-out sleeve! The cover is a tribute to Jowe's first solo LP, "Pincer Movement",
The rear contains the illustration Jowe had planned to use for "Bobit Juice"
News from Dan Treacy - May 2004
Here's a letter he sent to Xfm DJ Iain Baker. Mr Baker duly passed the message onto Andy from Little Teddy Recordings, and
dutifully posted the letter on the TVP Email List
"It's a long story, not a long sentence, i'm out of here on the 23rd or 30th of June. I'm on a prison boat, it's like a
cruise that goes nowhere!...Sitting here recently..like i've sat many a time over the past few years, i've realised how much
I miss the music, not the business- I don't even own a guitar or amp (haven't for years!) But i've written my best and most
meaningful music in the last couple of years. I want to do a new TVP's LP, thing is: i've had no contact with anyone from
the past. I'd love to get Jowe back on board (whoops, no pun intended!) I feel like i'm 17 again and not having a clue how
the music biz works except i'm not, i'm 44 on the 19th of June and i'm spending it in here of all places! I am completely
skint at the moment, but for the last 6 months i've been free of health/drug problems...could any publicist invent a story
like mine? you couldn't make it up. Tell Andy he can put every thing i've told you on his website and if he wants he can set
up AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR TVP'S with the truth coming from me. I'll even list the songs i've got waiting to record, and if
he wants to put my current address on the site, he can- some birthday cards might be nice!
However I do this, I want it done BIGGER this time: Christ, Pete Doherty does 3 weeks in wandsworth and he's the the new Johnny
Cash! Guess I must be the new James Brown/Albert Lee/Brian Wilson put together!
Love, Jailbird Dan"
Television Personalities Tribute CD"If I Could Write Poetry" planned for release in early
2004 by The Beautiful Music label out of Canada.
Please see http://www.thebeautifulmusic.com/ for more info. It will be amazing! Participating bands featured Sixtynine And The Continuous People, The Paisley Shirts,
The Thanes, Summer Factory, The Bartlebees, The Woog Riots, The Container Drivers, The Baskervilles, The Loch Ness Mouse,
Lovejoy, Pub Fiction, Nick Danger, yours truely from Windless Air Music and other surprise guests!
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