Television Personalities - Where´s Bill Grundy Now? (1978)

Television Personalities is an English post-punk group with a varying line up. The only constant member is singer/songwriter Dan Treacy.

The Television Personalities enjoyed one of the new wave era's longest, most erratic, and most far-reaching careers. Over the course of a musical evolution that led them from wide-eyed shambling pop to the outer reaches of psychedelia and back, they directly influenced virtually every major pop uprising of the period, with artists as diverse as feedback virtuosos the Jesus and Mary Chain, twee pop titans the Pastels, and lo-fi kingpins Pavement readily acknowledging the Television Personalities' inspiration.

The debut recording from Television Personalities bore their defining anthem, "Part-Time Punks," which they unleashed on an unsuspecting world in 1978, a single which remains as vital to the history of U.K. punk as the Buzzcocks' debut single, "Spiral Scratch."

"Where's Bill Grundy Now?" is a hilarious pop tune which exemplifies their Beatles/Kinks-esque sound. "Happy Families" and "Posing at the Roundhouse" comprise the B-side of this single, which could be considered to be the birth of the lo-fi movement without a qualm.

The single was reissued a year later by Rough Trade and again in 1992 on Overground. According to punk rock legend, the single was recorded on a studio budget of a little over 20 pounds. Essential and seminal to the indie rock, post-punk, and lo-fi movements of the following two decades.


Tracklist:

A1 Part-Time Punks
A2 Where's Bill Grundy Now?
B1 Happy Families
B2 Posing At The Roundhouse

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Television Personalities - Where´s Bill Grundy Now? (1978)

(320 kbps, cover art included)