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144-543: A seminal and iconic figure within the independent music scene. In 2006, music critic Cam Lindsay described Treacy as having "recorded some of the most bizarre, unlistenable and brilliant pop songs in the last three decades". Treacy was inspired to form the Television Personalities after hearing the Sex Pistols and Jonathan Richman . Ever unconventional, Treacy said he was not that much interested in music and
180-482: A teenager, and with financial assistance from his parents, paid out of pocket for the 1978 recording of the Television Personalities debut EP "Where's Bill Grundy Now?". He intended to release "Part Time Punks" as a single, but having after the recording and mastering , realised during the test pressing that he would be unable to afford to generate enough copies of the single qualify for a release. The initial pressings left him with just two copies, one of which he sent to
216-465: Is a complete list of the Television Personalities albums. Part Time Punks " Part Time Punks " is a song by the English post-punk group Television Personalities . Written in 1978 by band leader and vocalist Dan Treacy, it was released as a single in 1980 on Rough Trade Records . The record features Treacy, fellow teenager and school friend Ed Ball , and drummer Mark Sheppard. "Part Time Punks"
252-670: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Television Personalities The Television Personalities are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 by London singer-songwriter Dan Treacy. Their varied, volatile and long career encompasses post-punk, neo-psychedelia and indie pop ; the only constant being Treacy's songwriting. Present and former members include Chelsea childhood mates 'Slaughter Joe' Joe Foster , one-time best friend Ed Ball (early line-up, later briefly) and Jowe Head (ex- Swell Maps ), with Jeffrey Bloom from 1983 to 1994. The threesome of Treacy, Head, and Bloom formed
288-540: The Sex Pistols on the 'Today' programme in 1976, during which the band swore and after which the TV host was fired from the ITV network . Treacy formed the Television Personalities after hearing the Sex Pistols and Jonathan Richman . Unconventional by nature, he has said that at the time, he was not that much interested in music and that the band rarely rehearsed. He avoided preparing set lists for live performances, preferring to keep
324-640: The 1960s. Their second album Mummy Your Not Watching Me [sic] demonstrated increased psychedelic influences. Their third album, entitled They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles showed Treacy's sense of humour; the TVPs were never to have any major commercial success in the UK – although their albums sold respectably in Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. The first three albums featured Treacy and schoolmate Ed Ball ; Ball left
360-551: The BBC wrote that the album "captures the offbeat brilliance that made the TVPs indie legends in the 70s, characterised by Treacy’s endearingly slapdash attitude towards singing in tune and playing in time." He was reportedly seriously ill in October 2011 following brain surgery to remove a blood clot. He regained consciousness in December, but remained hospitalised. By 2016 he was recovering from
396-518: The Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton on 6 August 2005 ended in chaos after half an hour when Treacy had apparent difficulties with his guitars and mic stand. His bandmates left him on stage and the gig was halted by the management. His 2006 comeback album My Dark Places received widespread critical acclaim, including for the single "Velvet Underground". The NME described it as a "stunningly original record-harrowing and hilarious in equal amounts", while
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#1732877295970432-431: The band "on their toes". Head remembers "us rehearsing once in late 1983. We did another one five years later, and that was about it." The band struggled to decide on a name; early suggestions included the names of well known but old fashioned television hosts such as Nicholas Parsons , Russell Harty , Bruce Forsyth and Hughie Green . Eventually they decided on the more generic "Television Personalities". While still
468-400: The band in 1982 to found The Times , but rejoined in 2004. According to critic Ira Robbins, with their 1984 album The Painted Word the TVPs "have drifted off into spare, droning psychedelia and ultra-restrained rock that's hauntingly beautiful, like the most delicate moments of The Velvet Underground ." The band were hired that year to support Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on
504-467: The band rarely rehearsed. Treacy did not prepare set-lists for live performances, preferring to keep the band on their toes. Head remembers "us rehearsing once in late 1983. We did another one five years later, and that was about it." The band struggled to find a name, and early suggestions included the names of mainstream and often ridiculed television hosts such as Nicholas Parsons , Russell Harty , Bruce Forsyth and Hughie Green , before they decided on
540-582: The band's first tour of Europe but shortly afterwards Foster and Musker left. This left the band as a guitar, bass and drums threesome and Treacy, Head, and Bloom would continue as the Television Personalities for the next 14 years. The band were regulars on the London gig scene and also did several tours of the UK, Europe, the U.S. and Japan. The Chocolate Art and Camping in France live albums were recorded during this time. Various line-up changes and circumstances prevented
576-553: The band's youth, remarked in good humour: "Oh, it's such a shame that children have to grow up". As a result of this exposure, Tracey was contacted by a number of independent record labels offering to press and distribute the track. During this period he and Ball formed the Whaam! label, and released a number of further self-financed singles. This project was renamed "Dreamworld", after a cease and desist letter from legal representatives of George Michael , who paid an undisclosed sum to get
612-468: The duo to choose a title different to Wham! . Treacy eventually signed with Geoff Travis ' Rough Trade Records , who released the single in 1980. It became instantly popular, with the first 14,000 copies selling in 6 months and a further 13,000 pressed six months later. The song brought the band to attention abroad and led to tours and record sales in America, Germany and Holland. The recorded version of
648-407: The influential BBC radio DJ John Peel , who played it repeatedly. On the strength of the song, he offered the band a Peel Session , which they recorded at BBC Radio 1 on 20 August 1980, but wanting to display their newer songs, omitted "Part Time Punks". Peel, who was very orientated towards singles throughout his career, was disappointed when he heard that the song had been omitted but, noting
684-540: The longest unchanged line-up and as a result is considered by many to be the definitive line-up, performing hundreds of gigs around the world and recording many of the band's most popular songs like "How I Learned to Love the Bomb", "Salvador Dali's Garden Party" and "Strangely Beautiful". Despite this, the Television Personalities are best known for their early single " Part Time Punks ", a favourite of John Peel . Despite their relatively minor commercial success (their third album
720-472: The mid-1970s into a more commercialised, fashionable and mainstream style. According to the music journalist Rob Young, the song reflects the "transference of the earnest imperatives behind punk rock into a pastiche", and satires "the cartoon-mohican punk rockers that had taken over the King's Road as helpless fashion victims ignorant of the founding spirit of punk rock." Author and journalist Lina Lecaro described
756-468: The more generic and pointed "Television Personalities". Their first single "14th Floor" was released in January 1978 to critical acclaim. It was followed by the 1978 EP Where's Bill Grundy Now? which brought them to popular attention. The EP features their lone chart hit, the seminal " Part Time Punks ", written while Treacy was 17 years and living in a high-rise building on King's Road . [Edward] Ball
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#1732877295970792-488: The recordings for Privilege from being released until 1990. Their subsequent album Closer to God was a combination of sixties style pop and darker material, and was similar in tone to The Painted Word . Treacy later struggled with mental health issues and drug addiction, and from 1998 to June 2004 was incarcerated for theft. He spent time on the prison ship HMP Weare in Portland Harbour, Dorset, England. A gig at
828-438: The single brought the Television Personalities to prominence within the then emerging independent music scene, selling an estimated 27,000 copies in its first year. The lyrics are a humour-infused satire of the late-comer, fashion-oriented, “plastic” punks who emerged c 1979 after the English punk rock movement emerged from the underground and went mainstream, especially after Bill Grundy 's infamous live TV interview with
864-428: The song "You’ll Have To Scream Louder" in 2020), Pavement and MGMT (who recorded the track "Song for Dan Treacy"). Treacy is known for the numerous popular culture references and in-jokes scattered throughout the TVPs' lyrics, album titles and record artwork. Most of the references are to (mostly British ) cult films , 1960s culture and forgotten or under appreciated musicians and celebrities. The following
900-464: The song as about poseurs and late adopters "who pound the pit or rock the look only on the weekend". Treacy re-explored the theme in 1995's -far darker- "I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod". Although the song mentions several contemporary people, bands and record labels, including John Peel , Siouxsie and the Banshees and Rough Trade Records , it wasn't intended to criticise them directly, more to, in
936-457: The song is performed in Television Personalities' characteristic low-fi and deliberately shambolic style. Tracey sings in vernacular language with a pronounced London accent and a story-telling intonation. Adding to the deliberately amateurish tone, both Treacy and Ball seem to struggle to keep their vocal harmonies in tune. The lyrics take a critical and ironic look at aspects of the evolution of punk rock from its underground beginnings in
972-473: The surgery and said that he intended to return to music. In January 2018, Fire Records released the long lost Beautiful Despair as the band's twelfth album. It had been recorded in 1990 on a 4-track , between 1989's "Privilege" and 1992's "Closer to God", but was not released at that time. Bands that have cited them as formative influences include Jesus and Mary Chain , Half Man Half Biscuit , The Pastels , Beat Happening , Tindersticks (who covered
1008-520: The tour for his solo album About Face , but were fired when they performed their song "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives", during which Treacy read out Barrett's real address on stage. In 1983 the band comprised Treacy, Dave Musker on keyboards, Joe Foster on guitar and Mark Flunder on bass. Jeffrey Bloom joined on drums at a gig in Alan McGee's Living Room club and shortly afterwards Stephen Bird, AKA Jowe Head, replaced Flunder on bass. This line up went on
1044-466: The words of critic Ian Birch, highlight "the kind of unthinking acceptance that people can adopt towards figureheads." Asked in a 1980 interview with Sounds magazine if he was once a part-time punk, Treacy said: "Oh Christ yeah, I'm the worst of the lot. Up to about six months ago I was just like everybody else. If there was a review in Sounds saying this is a good album I'd go and but it...The other night I
1080-447: Was amazed at the quality of Treacy's writing, and admitted that he "couldn't believe the lyrics. Suddenly, my best friend was coming out with these amazing songs." With the financial backing of his mother, Treacy hand-pressed 500 copies of "'Where's Bill Grundy Now?", each with a photocopied sleeve, which he sent to various record companies and radio DJs. The track was picked up by BBC's John Peel . Treacy said "Peel loved it, but my mum
1116-553: Was first released as part of their 1978 four-song EP "Where's Bill Grundy Now?". Treacy self-financed the EP, in part with a loan from his parents. He had intended to release the song as a single immediately after but was unable to afford to press the 7-inch singles. When a copy of the track was picked up by the BBC DJ John Peel , Treacy was offered a number of record deals before eventually signing with Rough Trade. Their 1980 release of
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1152-415: Was hassling me to pay back the money." The song title and resulting media attention brought the band to the notice of the music press and rock establishment royalty they were parodying. Treacy said: " Jimmy Page came in one day when I was reading an interview I'd done, and I told him I had a record out. So then, he walks me upstairs to a wardrobe brimming with guitars, hands me one and five minutes later, I
1188-432: Was jamming with Jimmy Page. He was good, but he weren't as good as me." Later the promotion of the "14th Floor" single was supported by Joe Strummer , and they became a foundational band for Alan McGee when he began to form Creation Records . In the middle of 1980, the Television Personalities made their live debut following the recruitment of Joe Foster on bass and Mark Sheppard (known as Empire) on drums. This line-up
1224-517: Was looking over the road, not with me telescope, and there was actually someone pogoing in their bedroom. That's when I realised everybody takes it too seriously." The song has been widely influential, with elements of its style adopted by bands such as Belle and Sebastian and Arctic Monkeys . Part Time Punks appears on the 1995 Television Personalities early singles and B-sides compilation "Yes Darling, But Is It Art". The 1999 'Best of' album "Part Time Punks: The Very Best Of Television Personalities"
1260-517: Was sardonically titled They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles ), the Television Personalities are highly regarded by critics and have been widely influential, especially on the C86 generation, on many of the bands signed to Creation Records in the 1990s, and on American artists such as Pavement and MGMT . Treacy's unconventional but dryly witty and culture-infused lyrics, have led to his reputation as
1296-536: Was short-lived, reportedly due to differences in opinion between Foster and Sheppard, leading to Joe's departure. Prior to this, Dan and Mark helped out with Joe's solo project, the Missing Scientists, which included Mute Records head Daniel Miller . The Television Personalities' first album ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It was released in 1981. It set the template for their subsequent career: neo-psychedelia married to an obsession with youth culture of
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