Television Personalities

One of the first bands to apply the DIY spirit and attitude of punk rock to the creation of a more whimsical pop-oriented sound, the Television Personalities perfectly revealed the contradictions and hypocrisy of the punk movement with their bouncy hit "Part-time Punks." For various labels , the band recorded several albums of jangly, shambolic, 1960s-tinged pop that owed more to Syd Barrett and the Beatles than to the Sex Pistols and the Clash before frontman Dan Treacy vanished into drug addiction in the 1990s. A clean Treacy and a new TVPs line-up made a triumphant return in 2006 with the album BUT IS IT ART?

• Alternative TV
• Orange Juice
• Stiff Little Fingers
• The Fall
• The Marine Girls
• The Pastels (Rock)
• The Raincoats
• The Soft Boys
• Vic Godard & Subway Sect

• Donovan (Rock)
• Pink Floyd
• The Action (60's)
• The Kinks
• The Move
• The Ramones
• The Sex Pistols
• The Small Faces
• The Velvet Underground
• The Zombies

• Arctic Monkeys
• Beat Happening
• Belle & Sebastian
• Talulah Gosh
• Teenage Fanclub
• The Aislers Set
• The Pooh Sticks
• The Smiths
• Unrest

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