Television Personalities

After ten years of inactivity, we've reactivated. Our first gig in ten years will take place in May:

Friday 19th May 2023
The Pack Horse, Leeds

Good Grief
The Wandering Summer
Small Guage
The Container Drivers
£5. 8pm start.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1163826584326602/

Tindersticks have covered "You'll Have To Scream Louder" on their new LP of covers. I like their version.

Tammi Terrell - Come On And See Me: The Complete Solo Collection

2CD Various - "A Cellarful of Motown Volume 2"

"Three Cheers For Simon", thanks to Sterling Cale who uploaded it to youtube.

Venue link here:

https://subterania.net/gig/television-p ... al-guests/

Marc Riley is airing the Peel session again this week, one track per night.

Monday 15/07/19: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006t5w

The Contours - Dance With The Contours (Kent Records)

Issued in 2011. Contains 24 previously unreleased tracks recorded for Motown in 1963-64. Nice.

Two CDs, from Delicious Goldfish records of Sweden.

The Legends - Facts And Figures (2006)
Baskervilles - Baskervilles (2003)

For Christmas 2014 I read Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". This began a tradition of reading Dickens at Christmas. Over the following years I've devoured the following: "The Old Curiosity Shop" (2015), "The Pickwick Papers" (2016), "Bleak House" (2017) and for Christmas 2018, "David Copperfield...

The Yellow Melodies - "Life" LP.

It would appear that there was a TVP tribute concert in Athens on Saturday, featuring - amongst others - former band members Jowe Head, Dave Musker and Lee McFadden. I knew nothing about this! There's some videos on youtube: dgZHUW7qb-8 t4qSyuvY-2A At0MtK8H1Ww R_Bktbjk7us G8M2-JZ9nuQ At0MtK8H1Ww dYL...

Jowe and The Teenage Filmstars (who might they be?) have two dates in Scotland in February, playing a set of TVP and Swell Maps songs, according to the flyers. Exciting!

Did Ed Ball appear at this?

If you browse down the list of topics in the Ed Ball discussion section you'll see quite a few references to new songs, a 7" and a new LP round about 2007/08. As far as I know everything seemed to get pulled from release and Ed disappeared from public view (but he was later confirmed as being ok). S...

I had Nervous Twitch on at my Get Hip club night the other week. Below is a review that someone did of the night. Jay & Erin from Nervous Twitch are fans of the TVP's and will be at the Dan Treacy tribute gig next month. https://digthatgroove1.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/gig-review-60-nervous-twitch-g...

Yes, there should have been an existing topic for the Mechanicals already... My friends from Germany, the Woog Riots, are coming to London next weekend for a one-off gig. The Rude Mechanicals are on the bill as well, which is as follows: Woolf Presents Summer Extravaganza: Pit Ponies Rude Mechanical...

I might come down from the wild north for that.

Thanks for the link! Some great photos of Jowe in Swell Maps on there too:

https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com ... oats-1979/