Television Personalities is tagged as: post-punk, indie, new wave, indie pop, twee The Television Personalities are an English post-punk group with a varying line up. The only constant member is singer/songwriter Dan Treacy. Their first release (January 1978) was the single “14th Floor / Oxford Street W1”. Their second release, the EP Where’s Bill Grundy Now? features one of their best-known songs, “Part Time Punks”. 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, an obsession with youth culture of the 1960s, a fey, slightly camp lyrical attitude, and the occasional classic pop song. Their second album Mummy Your Not Watching Me [sic] demonstrated increased psychedelic influences. Their third album, ironically entitled They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles showed Treacy’s sense of irony: the TVPs (as they are affectionately known) were never to have any major commercial success. The first three albums featured Treacy and schoolmate Ed Ball; Ball left the band to found The Times, but rejoined in 2004. The 1985 album The Painted Word was unexpectedly dark in content, reflecting Treacy’s despair at Thatcherite Britain and his personal circumstances. Various line up changes prevent... Read More About Television Personalities Biography... |
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