TV Smith

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Expensive Being Poor 00:00 Tools
Immortal Rich 00:00 Tools
Generation Y 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmore's Eyes 00:00 Tools
The Day We Caught The Big Fish 00:00 Tools
Lion And The Lamb 00:00 Tools
Only One Flavour 00:00 Tools
My string will snap 00:00 Tools
Useless 00:00 Tools
Bored Teenagers 00:00 Tools
One Chord Wonders 00:00 Tools
Runaway Train Driver 00:00 Tools
Together Alone 00:00 Tools
Ready For The Axe To Drop 00:00 Tools
Gather Your Things And Go 00:00 Tools
Lord's Prayer 00:00 Tools
Not In My Name 00:00 Tools
Bring The Bull Down 00:00 Tools
Good Times Are Back 00:00 Tools
In the Arms of My Enemy 00:00 Tools
Clone Town 00:00 Tools
Get It Now 00:00 Tools
Roll Like A River 00:00 Tools
Xmas Bloody Xmas 00:00 Tools
It's Warming Up 00:00 Tools
See Through 00:00 Tools
I Delete 00:00 Tools
Replay 00:00 Tools
Open Up Your Heart 00:00 Tools
What If 00:00 Tools
You Saved My Life Then Ruined It 00:00 Tools
Weak Glue 00:00 Tools
Backstage Bob 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could See Clearly 00:00 Tools
We Want The Road 00:00 Tools
A Token Of My Love 00:00 Tools
Carrying On 00:00 Tools
New Ways Are Best 00:00 Tools
Small Rewards 00:00 Tools
Ark Of Suburbia 00:00 Tools
Right Hands Rise 00:00 Tools
My Trojan Horse 00:00 Tools
Last True Thing 00:00 Tools
Second Class Citizens 00:00 Tools
Worn Once 00:00 Tools
Ghost Of Westminster 00:00 Tools
First One to Sign Up 00:00 Tools
March Of The Giants 00:00 Tools
Living World 00:00 Tools
More Than This 00:00 Tools
True Believers 00:00 Tools
No Time To Be 21 00:00 Tools
Free World 00:00 Tools
London Hum 00:00 Tools
Festival of Fools 00:00 Tools
Long Gone 00:00 Tools
Walk The Plank 00:00 Tools
I Know What You Want 00:00 Tools
Cutbacks 00:00 Tools
High Society 00:00 Tools
Es Stort Mich Nicht 00:00 Tools
Driver Or Passenger 00:00 Tools
Strong Horse 00:00 Tools
Probably 00:00 Tools
Happy Homeland 00:00 Tools
Head On! Clear! 00:00 Tools
Home Town 00:00 Tools
It Don't Work 00:00 Tools
Leisure Time 00:00 Tools
Not a Bad Day 00:00 Tools
A Step Back 00:00 Tools
Momentous Changes 00:00 Tools
Let'em Go 00:00 Tools
War Fever 00:00 Tools
Man Down 00:00 Tools
Earth 2 00:00 Tools
Statue of Liberty 00:00 Tools
On Your Video 00:00 Tools
Atlantic Tunnel 00:00 Tools
Intro: Der Stacheldrahtmann 00:00 Tools
Complaints Department 00:00 Tools
Great British Mistake 00:00 Tools
Deactivate Autoslave 00:00 Tools
Your Ticket Out Of Here 00:00 Tools
The Future Used to be Better 00:00 Tools
Es stört mich nicht 00:00 Tools
Thin Green Line 00:00 Tools
Headhunters 00:00 Tools
Intro: Dangerous Playground 00:00 Tools
No Control 00:00 Tools
Coming In To Land 00:00 Tools
The Newshound 00:00 Tools
Us And Them 00:00 Tools
A Trouble To Yourself 00:00 Tools
Buried By The Machine 00:00 Tools
Dominator 00:00 Tools
Dawning Of False Hopes 00:00 Tools
Straight And Narrow 00:00 Tools
Can't Pay, Won't Pay 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Bomb 00:00 Tools
No Message Please 00:00 Tools
Ship In A Bottle 00:00 Tools
Haves And Have-nots 00:00 Tools
Luxury In Exile 00:00 Tools
Silicon Valley Holiday 00:00 Tools
Eurodisneyland Von Morgen 00:00 Tools
One Million Pounds 00:00 Tools
THE DRINK 00:00 Tools
New Church 00:00 Tools
Earthbound 00:00 Tools
Fire In The Darkness 00:00 Tools
Lies 00:00 Tools
Land of the Overdose 00:00 Tools
Sugar Crash 00:00 Tools
The Green Line 00:00 Tools
Ghosts 00:00 Tools
Empty Wallet 00:00 Tools
We Stand Alone 00:00 Tools
DER STACHELDRAHTMANN 00:00 Tools
The Suit 00:00 Tools
Swimming In The Flood 00:00 Tools
Borderline 00:00 Tools
Burning Rain 00:00 Tools
Cracking Up 00:00 Tools
Your Haunted Heart 00:00 Tools
Like a Rocket 00:00 Tools
Dangerous Playground 00:00 Tools
Trombone Town (Hidden Track) 00:00 Tools
Be Brave 00:00 Tools
Soon as I Found It I Lost It 00:00 Tools
THE ROCK'N'ROLL 00:00 Tools
No Hope Street 00:00 Tools
In There 00:00 Tools
Beauty Treatment 00:00 Tools
Punk Rock Poem 00:00 Tools
Parade 00:00 Tools
The Servant 00:00 Tools
Satellites 00:00 Tools
For Every Hit There's A Miss 00:00 Tools
Walk Away 00:00 Tools
Keys to the World 00:00 Tools
Never Again Until the Next Time 00:00 Tools
Woodpecker 00:00 Tools
Green Zone 00:00 Tools
Gary gilmore´s eyes 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Life 00:00 Tools
This Year, Next Year? 00:00 Tools
lord´s prayer 00:00 Tools
You Save My Life Then Ruined It 00:00 Tools
The Impossible Person 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Impulse Buy 00:00 Tools
Sunny Side Up 00:00 Tools
Coming Round 00:00 Tools
Last Lost Sheep 00:00 Tools
Written Out 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmore's Eyes (Live) 00:00 Tools
Have Fun 00:00 Tools
File It Under Not My Problem 00:00 Tools
Imagination 00:00 Tools
Treasure 00:00 Tools
Break Up The Party 00:00 Tools
Bored Teenagers (Live) 00:00 Tools
InThere 00:00 Tools
We Who Wait 00:00 Tools
People Don't Know 00:00 Tools
Wheels Out Of Gear 00:00 Tools
The Revolution's The Same 00:00 Tools
I Live For Everything 00:00 Tools
This Year, Next Year ... 00:00 Tools
The Rock'n'Roll (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Der Stacheldrahtmann (remix) 00:00 Tools
Losing You 00:00 Tools
Get It Off Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Land Of Plenty 00:00 Tools
The Day We Caught Big Fish 00:00 Tools
Wedding Dress 00:00 Tools
Expensive Being Poor - Remix 00:00 Tools
The Drink (remix) 00:00 Tools
Dangerous Playground (remix) 00:00 Tools
Downbeat 00:00 Tools
New Discoverers 00:00 Tools
Last Words of the Great Explorer 00:00 Tools
Make Your Escape 00:00 Tools
Trans-Time 00:00 Tools
One Of Our Missiles 00:00 Tools
Today 00:00 Tools
Television's Over 00:00 Tools
The Easy Way 00:00 Tools
A World Of My Own 00:00 Tools
Lord's Prayer (Live) 00:00 Tools
Pushed again 00:00 Tools
Walk in a Straight Line 00:00 Tools
200 Blows - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Cheap - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Unwelcome Guest 00:00 Tools
This Year, Next Year... 00:00 Tools
Tomahawk Cruise - Tom Newman Sessions Single a Side 00:00 Tools
Finger Of Fashion 00:00 Tools
See Europe - Single B Side 00:00 Tools
Silicon Valley Holiday - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Third Term - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Luxury in Exile - Bonus 00:00 Tools
This Year, Next Year 00:00 Tools
New Ways Are Best - Bonus 00:00 Tools
On The Roof 00:00 Tools
For Every Hit There´s A Miss 00:00 Tools
Third Term 00:00 Tools
Blind Love 00:00 Tools
Looking Down on London - Tom Newman Sessions Single B Side 00:00 Tools
King Of Hearts 00:00 Tools
Soon Is I Found It I Lost It 00:00 Tools
This Year, Next Year.... 00:00 Tools
tomahawk cruise 00:00 Tools
Second Class Citizen 00:00 Tools
I Already Have Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Generation Y (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Putting Up A Front 00:00 Tools
Buried by the Machine - Bonus 00:00 Tools
Third Term - Bonus 12" Single Version 00:00 Tools
The Real Fake 00:00 Tools
Love Chain Letter 00:00 Tools
The Easy Way - Tom Newman Sessions Demo 00:00 Tools
Safe House 00:00 Tools
The Servant - Radio 00:00 Tools
Lean Towards The Light 00:00 Tools
Lord's Prayer - Bonus Live Version 00:00 Tools
Drowning On Dry Land 00:00 Tools
Eurodisneyland Tomorrow 00:00 Tools
Shipwrecked (On the Rocks of Love) 00:00 Tools
I Live for Everything - Tom Newman Sessions Demo 00:00 Tools
Spy On The Line 00:00 Tools
Safety In Numbers 00:00 Tools
Bombsite Boy 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Life - Radio 00:00 Tools
Walk Away - Radio 00:00 Tools
Feet On the Ground 00:00 Tools
My Punk Rock Poem 00:00 Tools
Sure Thing 00:00 Tools
Top Ten 00:00 Tools
Poison Mind 00:00 Tools
Last Words of the Great Explorer - Radio 00:00 Tools
Lucky Us 00:00 Tools
The Right Time 00:00 Tools
Looking Down on London - Radio 00:00 Tools
I Live for Everything - Radio 00:00 Tools
The Lion and the lamb 00:00 Tools
On Wheels 00:00 Tools
Drowning Men 00:00 Tools
Have Fun - Radio 00:00 Tools
The Adverts 00:00 Tools
Divide And Rule 00:00 Tools
The Immortal Rich 00:00 Tools
Complaints Dept. 00:00 Tools
Thin Green Line (with Tom Robinson) 00:00 Tools
New Day Dawning 00:00 Tools
can't pay won't pay 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmore's Eyes (with Tom Robinson) 00:00 Tools
Back from the Dead 00:00 Tools
You Saved My Life Then Ruined 00:00 Tools
Lord`s Prayer 00:00 Tools
Newboys 00:00 Tools
Lion The Lamb 00:00 Tools
Clone Town (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Revolution´s The Same 00:00 Tools
Expensive beeing poor 00:00 Tools
You Saved My Live Then Ruined It 00:00 Tools
Expensive Being Poor (T.V. Smith) 00:00 Tools
You Saved My Life And Then Ruin It 00:00 Tools
Have Fun - Britannia Row Sessions Rough Mix 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Life - Britannia Row Sessions Rough Mix 00:00 Tools
See Europe - Live 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmore`s Eyes 00:00 Tools
Der Stacheldrahtman 00:00 Tools
Lords Prayer 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmoreґs Eyes 00:00 Tools
Its Warming Up 00:00 Tools
Lion And The Lamb (live with Tom Robinson) 00:00 Tools
The Unwelcome Guest 00:00 Tools
The Last Words Of The Great Explorer 00:00 Tools
See Europe 00:00 Tools
The Servant - Britannia Row Sessions Rough Mix 00:00 Tools
Looking Down On London 00:00 Tools
Lion & The Lamb 00:00 Tools
200 Blows (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
New Ways Are Best (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
Burning Pain 00:00 Tools
See Europe (Live) 00:00 Tools
Tomahawk Cruise (Tom Newman Sessions Single a Side) 00:00 Tools
Right Hands Raise 00:00 Tools
Gary Gilmore's Eyes - Attrition Remix 00:00 Tools
One Milion Pounds 00:00 Tools
The Great British Mistake 00:00 Tools
Complaints Dept 00:00 Tools
Cheap (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
06 Bored Teenagers 00:00 Tools
Lord's Prayer (Bonus Live Version) 00:00 Tools
02 Only One Flavour 00:00 Tools
Third Term (Bonus) 00:00 Tools
The Servant (Radio) 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Life (Radio) 00:00 Tools
The Beautiful Bomb 00:00 Tools
Bored Teenager 00:00 Tools
What If (Live) 00:00 Tools
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TV Smith, former frontman and songwriter of seminal UK punk band The Adverts, is seen as a cult legend by many fans of Britain's late 1970s New Wave scene. Tim Smith grew up in Devon where he developed an interest in poetry and, later - influenced by the records of Bowie and Roxy Music - songwriting. At art college, he met girlfriend and fellow Iggy and the Stooges devotee Gaye Black and in 1976 the couple moved to London after reading about the Sex Pistols in the music press with the aim of starting their own punk band. Upon arrival, they changed their names to TV Smith and Gaye Advert respectively, recruited guitarist Howard Pickup (born Boak) and drummer Laurie Driver (born Muscat) and formed The Adverts. The band debuted at Andy Czezowski's Roxy in Covent Garden in early 1977 before signing to Stiff Records and releasing their debut single "One Chord Wonders", one of the era's signature anthems and a response to ongoing criticism of the band's musical inexperience and alleged ineptitude. The single received positive reviews and became an underground punk hit (partly due to the now-iconic portrait of Gaye Advert that adorned its sleeve). The band found brief chart success in late 1977/early 1978 with subsequent singles "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" and "No Time To Be 21" which were followed by the release of their debut LP "Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts". The album performed disappointingly despite positive reviews but is now considered by many to be one of the best releases of the New Wave. The band's follow-up LP Cast of Thousands was produced by Mike Oldfield alumni Tom Newman and appeared to owe as much to Smith's progressive rock influences as it did to punk. As a result the record was universally derided by a bewildered and reactionary punk press and the band folded shortly after its release. Gaye still lives with TV in West London but retired from music after The Adverts folded. Smith continued to forge his own musical path, however, going on to form post-punk pop-rock outfit TV Smith's Explorers in the early 80s and raucous political rockers TV Smith's Cheap later the same decade. Both bands sadly released only one album each. Following Cheap's collapse in the eraly 90s, Smith embarked on a solo career which continues to this day. His eclectic recorded output as a solo artist is probably most simply described as a mixture of semi-acoustic socio-political protest music and fiery punk rock. As a live perfomer, Smith tours mostly as a lone troubadour, playing energetic acoustic live sets to a devoted cult following across Europe, America and - most recently - Australia (including revamped versions of Adverts' songs). However, he also perfoms the occasional electric gig with collaborators such as Amen and The Midnight Creeps (both US), Die Toten Hosen and Garden Gang (both Germany), Punk Lurex (Finland), The Valentines (Italy), and Los Quattro/The Bored Teenagers (Spain). In 2007, Smith and The Bored Teenagers performed the Adverts' debut album in its entirety to a packed 100 Club in a thrilling show to commemorate the 30th anniversary of that band's first gigs. His most recent album is entitled In The Arms Of My Enemy (2008). For a full discography and reviews please see TV Smith's allmusic.com entry at: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=TV|SMITH&sql=11:kpftxqtgldae~T0 See also: http://www.tvsmith.com See also: http://www.myspace.com/tvsmith Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.