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TV Smith
was founder member, singer and songwriter for the
Adverts,
who formed in late
1976
, and were one of the leading bands in the first wave of British
punk rock
. In early
1977
, they performed regularly at the newly-opened
Roxy Club
in London, and gained cult success with the
Stiff Records
single "
One Chord Wonders
." Their next release, "
Gary Gilmore's Eyes
" became a hit record, leading to radio and TV appear-ances and extensive media interest. A further single,
“No Time To Be 21,”
also entered the charts, and the band spent the rest of the year playing live, including major tours with
The Damned
and
Iggy Pop
.
The album that followed in early
1978
, "
Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts,
" is still considered a genuine classic of the era and is often cited as one of the twenty best punk albums ever released. The Adverts released one more album,
“Cast Of Thousands,”
before they split in
1979.
Slammed by the critics at the time, the album was later re-released to universal acclaim, and described by
Mojo
magazine as
“the long lost punk album that rivals The Clash’s ‘London Calling’.”
Immediately after the break up of The Adverts, TV formed
TV Smith's Explorers,
who gained a UK hit in
1980
with the single
“Tomahawk Cruise”
and released one album,
“Last Words Of The Great Explorer”
a year later. Lack of commercial success led to the band being dropped by their record label and their sub-sequent split
.
TV re-entered the live arena in
1986
with
Cheap,
before performing his first gigs as a solo artist in the early
’90’s.
Since then he has established himself as the leading solo performer of the punk rock scene and has released a succession of albums including “
March Of The Giants” (1992), “Immortal Rich” (1995), “Generation Y” (1999), “Not A Bad Day” (2003), “Misinformation Overload”
(
2006), “In The Arms Of My Enemy” (2008), “Coming In To Land” (2011), “The Acoustic Sessions” Volumes 1 & 2 (2013 & 2022),
and
“I Delete” (2014).
He has also been involved in a number of collaborations with other bands, most notably with German superstars
Die Toten Hosen,
who performed as TV’s backing band on the album
“Useless.”
Die Toten Hosen released TV’s album
“Land Of The Overdose”
worldwide on their label
JKP/Warners
in
2018
. Fiercely independent and proudly embodying the original spirit of punk rock, TV was playing over 100 gigs a year all over the world before Coronavirus hit in
2020
. Over 60 gigs were subsequently cancelled, but not to be daunted he went into his home studio and wrote and recorded eleven new songs inspired by the pandem-ic.
The resulting album,
“Lockdown Holiday,”
was released on the
Easy Action label
in the UK at the be-ginning of
2021
, and has been described by many critics as the best of his career. As live music finally started up again in
2022, TV
wasted no time in getting back to work, with three major tours in the UK supporting
Stiff Little Fingers
, the
Damned
and
Ruts DC
, as well as four appearances at the
Rebellion
punk festival, UK club dates, and European gigs in
Germany
,
Switzerland
and
Finland
.
He also released two new records: the much-requested follow up to his “Acoustic Sessions” album,
“Acoustic Sessions Volume 2,”
and a studio version of his
Rebellion
set with the
Bored Teenagers, “TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers Replay The Adverts.”
In
2023 TV
continues his non-stop touring with gigs in the
UK, Europe,
and the
U.S.A.
On the recording front, a
double CD
release of collaborations with
Doctors Of Madness
frontman and founder
Richard Strange
entitled
“A DFFRNT WRLD”
was released on Molecular Scream on May 5th.
And finally,
TV
has started work on a brand new solo album for release in early Summer
2024
. Recorded in collaboration with renowned folk producer and multi-instrumentalist
Gerry Diver
, the pair promise a record that creates a thrilling
totally new musical landscape
with no conventional rock instruments. A full UK tour to promote it is being planned for September.
A full-length
BBC 4
documentary on TV Smith titled
“We Who Wait: TV Smith & The Adverts”
is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZqYCsT2uk
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