TV Smith

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TV Smith (2008)

TV Smith (born April 5, 1956 in Hornchurch , Essex ; also TV Smith , actually Timothy Smith ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter . Because Smith is the most common surname in Great Britain and the television set is the most frequently used household item, he has been using his first name since the Adverts was founded after the abbreviation for television .

Life

1956 to 1979: youth and early success with the adverts

TV Smith was born in Hornchurch. He had lived in North Tawton , Devon , since he was nine and attended college in Torquay . While still at school, he was recognized for his poetry at several national writing competitions. In 1973 he played in the school band "Slaby Witness" for which he wrote his own lyrics. At the same time he tried to make short surrealist films . At eighteen he attended art school in Bideford , where he formed the band Sleaze. The album of the same name by the five-piece school band was created within two hours, cost £ 38.88 including studio rental and 50 of them were pressed.

Musically influenced by Iggy Pop , The Velvet Underground , New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols , he moved to London in 1976, where he joined the punk scene and founded the band The Adverts in 1977 with his partner Gaye Advert . As the singer of the punk band , for which he wrote all the lyrics, he experienced rapid success in the British charts with the singles One Chord Wonders and Gary Gilmore's Eyes and the album Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts .

In the late 1970s, Smith worked with Richard Strange , who can also be heard as a guest musician on The Adverts' second album Cast of Thousands . The fifteen pieces of music that both musicians wrote together were never published; Seven of them are from the year 2005 on the strand website under the title Raw Meet for the Missionaries as a download to get.

1980 to 1989: crisis

After the adverts were dissolved in the autumn of 1979, Smith's next formation in 1980, the TV Smith's Explorers, whose style was a mixture of pop and punk music, initially had little success with the song Tomahawk Cruise , the text of which was based on the BGM-109 cruise missile Tomahawk refers. However, the band broke up after almost two years due to financial difficulties.

Smith tried his hand at being a solo artist. Since the record company Expulsion had to file for bankruptcy immediately after the completion of its album Channel 5 , only 2,000 copies of the record could be delivered and was therefore commercially unsuccessful.

In 1984 Smith founded, among others with Tim Cross , the band TV Smith's Cheap, with whom he romped through the clubs until 1989, mostly without a fee. The band had recorded an album, but there was no label that wanted to release it and there was no commercial success. Only after the formation had long since disbanded and Smith had released his first solo album March of the Giants in 1992 did RIP… Everything Must Go by the group Cheap finally hit the market in 1994 .

T. V. Smith brought another part of the songs composed from 1979 to 1983, mainly at the insistence of his fan club the TUTS (T. V. Smith United Tour Supporters), under the title Sparkle in the Mud as an album in May 2010.

Since 1990: solo career

TV Smith 2008

TV Smith has devoted himself to his solo career since the 1990s, performing mostly with acoustic guitar or a small accompaniment, and doing without permanent band members. With Attila the Stockbroker , in the opening act by Tom Robinson , with Punk Lurex OK , UK Subs or the Munich band Garden Gang , he travels through Great Britain, the USA, Finland, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. TV Smith has no manager, organizes its own tours and relies on friends for help. He's on the move with small luggage, his guitar and a sequencer that he uses as an accompanist on stage. Since 2006, TV Smith has published his experiences during numerous concert tours in four books with Arima Verlag.

Die Toten Hosen got in touch with Smith through a mutual friend Arturo Bassick from the Lurkers in order to win him over for their album project Learning English Lesson One . For this they finally covered the Adverts classic Gary Gilmore's Eyes in 1991 .

Smith's album Immortal Rich was released in 1994 in Great Britain on Humbug Records and in 1996 in the USA on the label 2-13-61 of his longtime fan Henry Rollins . Another solo album Smiths Generation Y brought in 1998 JKP , the record company of the Toten Hosen, before Smith recorded the album Useless with the German band in 2001 .

In spring 2003 he made the anti-war song Not in My Name available on his homepage , which was downloaded more than 7,000 times. The title can be found as a hidden track on the album Not a Bad Day , which he produced with Tim Cross at the end of 2003. Vom Ritchie played drums, Happi Mueller bass , Tim Renwick acoustic and electric guitar and Tim Cross keyboard during the recordings . Smith was instrumental in some of the Toten Hosen songs, such as Pushed Again , Daydreaming , How Do You Feel? , Call of the Wild or on the soundtrack for the film You Are Dead ! . In 2004, his composition Expensive Being Poor was part of the soundtrack of Wim Wenders ' film Land of Plenty .

Smith has taught himself German in recent years and explains the background of his English texts to the audience in German-speaking countries in the announcements. On the album Misinformation Overload , which published Wolfgang Rohde's label Goldene Zeiten in 2006 , there is a German-language song for the first time, It doesn't bother me . Also on this album Smith accompanied the musicians Vom Ritchie, Tim Cross and Happi Müller. In the new millennium, Smith toured continuously through the USA, Australia, England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Norway and Finland. He stood on stage with Mick Jones , Glen Matlock and Robbie Williams . In 2006 Smith was a guest on the jubilee album 26½ of Fehlfarben and interpreted the song Ein Jahr (it goes ahead) together with Peter Hein .

T. V. Smith and Vom Ritchie in Schwäbisch Gmünd 2009

On his 51st birthday, T. V. Smith gave a memorial concert for The Adverts at the 100 Club . He was accompanied by three musicians from the Spanish punk band Suzy & Los Quattro , who renamed themselves “The Bored Teenagers” especially for the collaboration with Smith, after a piece in the adverts. Claudio Glaesmer played the electric guitar, Tomas Ramos sat on the drums and BB Quattro was responsible for bass and backing vocals. The set list corresponded to the track list of the debut album Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts . The live recording was released on CD and DVD.

The album In the Arms of My Enemy , produced by Jon Caffery , was released in May 2008 on Vom Ritchie's Drumming Monkey Records label. Tim Renwick, Vom Ritchie and Tim Cross are again represented as accompanying musicians. In January 2009 Vom Ritchie and T. V. Smith toured the club together. Since 2008, T. V. Smith has occasionally appeared in joint stage shows with the Italian punk band The Valentines in order to perform the pieces of music from The Adverts again.

TV Smith completed his solo album Coming in to Land in the spring of 2011 , which was released in early May. With the Finnish band The Valkyrians , T. V. Smith recorded a reggae version of his song Gary Gilmore's Eyes , which appeared on their album Punkrocksteady in August 2011 . On October 22nd and 23rd, 2011, T. V. Smith gave concerts in Tokyo for the first time. His backing band was the Japanese band The Eddie Legend Story, who renamed themselves The Tokyo Adverts for their performance. In 2011, T. V. Smith accepted an invitation from the punk band Paranoid Visions from Dublin to take part as a guest singer in their recordings for the song Outsider Artist . The EP reached number six on the Irish charts in November 2011.

For the staging of Dirk Laucke's play The cold kiss of warm beer in the Trier Theater by director Ingrid Müller-Farney, T. V. Smith wrote four pieces of music, some with German text. The premiere took place on May 5, 2012. The pieces can be heard on the EP Dangerous Playground .

On June 1, 2012, BBC Four aired an hour-long television documentary about T.V. Smith entitled We Who Wait . Another album, under the name Lucky Us , with previously unreleased songs and demos from 1983 to 1986, was released by TV Smith in September 2012 on Boss Tunage in memory of Tim Cross, who passed away in July 2012.

In October 2014, Smith's album I Delete , produced by Jon Caffery on Drumming Monkey Records, was released. As in previous years, BB Quattro on bass and Vom Ritchie on drums accompanied the recording. In addition to ten new pieces, the album contains the songs The Barbed Wire Man , The Drink, The Rock 'n' Roll and Dangerous Playground for the staging of Laucke's play.

By 2014, TV Smith had published five books in which he told of his experiences during his concert tours. The book with the title Alternative Top 50. From 2016 is a collection of his texts.

In September 2018, JKP released the album Land of the Overdose , produced by Jon Caffery , which TV Smith recorded, this time without an accompanying musician, in a studio in Devon.

Works

see also: List of songs by TV Smith

Albums

The Adverts

TV Smith's Explorers

  • 1981: Last Words of the Great Explorer

TV Smith's Cheap

  • 1993: RIP ... Everything Must Go

TV Smith

  • 1983: Channel 5
  • 1992: March of the Giants
  • 1994: Immortal Rich
  • 1998: Generation Y
  • 2001: Useless
  • 2003: Not a Bad Day
  • 2006: Misinformation Overload
  • 2007: Perform Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts Live at The 100 Club , London April 5th 2007
  • 2008: In the Arms of My Enemy
  • 2009: Live at the NVA Ludwigsfelde , Germany double CD
  • 2010: Sparkle in the Mud
  • 2011: Coming in to Land
  • 2012: Dangerous Playground EP
  • 2012: Lucky Us
  • 2013: Acoustic Sessions Volume 1
  • 2014: I Delete
  • 2018: Land of the Overdose

DVDs

  • 2005: One Chord Wonder Live at The Sun Festival 1996, Wild Heart , Berlin 2001, Cuba in Jülich 2003
  • 2007: Perform Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts Live in The 100 Club.

Books

  • TV Smith: Getting There - Punk Rock Tour Diaries: Volume One. Arima, Suffolk 2006, ISBN 978-1-84549-128-4 .
  • TV Smith: How to Feel Human - Punk Rock Tour Diaries: Volume Two. Arima, Suffolk 2009, ISBN 978-1-84549-360-8 .
  • TV Smith: Tales of the Emergency Sandwich - Punk Rock Tour Diaries: Volume Three. Arima, Suffolk 2012, ISBN 978-1-84549-552-7 .
  • TV Smith: To Heligoland and Beyond! - Punk Rock Tour Diaries: Volume Four. Arima, Suffolk 2013, ISBN 978-1-84549-600-5 .
  • TV Smith: Book of the Year - Punk Rock tour Diaries: Volume Five. Arima, Suffolk 2014, ISBN 978-1-84549-633-3 .
  • TV Smith: Alternative Top 50. Foruli Codex, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-90579-268-9 .

literature

Dave Thompson : Your Ticket out of Here - The Armchair Guide TV Smith , 2007 e-book, hardcover October 2009, ISBN 978-1-4495-5815-4 . Dave Thompson: London's Burning: True Adventures on the Frontlines of Punk, 1976-1977. Chicago Review Press, Chicago, Illinois 2009, ISBN 978-1-55652-769-2 .

Web links

Commons : TV Smith  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TV Smith: Alternative Top 50. Foruli Codex, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-90579-268-9 . Page 4.
  2. ↑ Interview in the forum on the official homepage of TV Smith
  3. ↑ Dave Thompson: I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 12.
  4. ↑ Booklet accompanying the DVD Brennende Langeweile , Sunny Bastards , 2007.
  5. ↑ a b Dave Thompson : I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 9–10.
  6. ^ TV Smith at laut.de.
  7. ↑ Dave Thompson: I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 37.
  8. ^ Official homepage of Richard Strange
  9. ^ Friends of the House - TV Smith. From nothing to a hit single in six months. Die Toten Hosen, December 2010, archived from the original on November 3, 2009 ; Retrieved October 20, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Dave Thompson: I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 91.
  11. ↑ Booklet to Sparkle in the Mud , Boss Tuneage 2010, 6-89492-09432-4.
  12. ^ TV Smith: Getting There - Punk Rock Tour Diaries: Volume One. Arima, Suffolk 2006.
  13. ↑ Dave Thompson: I'm Your Ticket Out Of Here , The Armchair Guide to TV Smith. Page 124.
  14. ↑ Generation Y , 5245-00000-2.
  15. ↑ English biography at www.tvsmith.com
  16. ↑ Not A Bad Day , 5-050693-081423.
  17. ↑ Booklet to Misinfomation Overload , 4 029758 62184 4.
  18. ↑ Booklet for the live album Perform Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts , Boss Tuneage, 2007, 6 89492 06702 1.
  19. ↑ T.V. Smith & The Valentines - Live review on louderthanwar.com
  20. ↑ Coming in to Land
  21. ↑ Questions to DTH Part 79. (No longer available online.) Die Toten Hosen , archived from the original on September 13, 2013 ; accessed on August 31, 2013 .
  22. ^ Recordings for Gary Gilmore's Eyes with The Valkyrians
  23. ↑ Photostream to T. V. Smith & The Tokyo Adverts. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  24. ^ Official video Outsider Artist from Paranoid Visions.
  25. ↑ Paranoid Visions have Top 10 hit in Ireland article in Louder than War on November 29, 2011.
  26. ↑ The tough fight against tortured memories from the war. Article on Volksfreund.de from May 6, 2012.
  27. ^ TV Smith - Dangerous Playground ( Memento June 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in Moloko Plus , March 2012 edition
  28. ^ TV Smith & The Adverts 'We Who Wait' Documentary BBC4 June 01st , accessed June 7, 2012.
  29. ^ Dave Thompson: TV Smith. He deletes. Gold Mine , October 6, 2014, accessed October 11, 2014 .
  30. ^ Friends of the House - TV Smith. Die Toten Hosen, September 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Kevin Winiker: TV Smith: Land Of The Overdose - album review. Sound & Books, September 15, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Smith, TV
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hornchurch