Biography
With TV Smith’s Explorers having imploded in past due 1981 as well as the success from the Adverts receding further in to the past, TV Smith launched his solo career in early 1982, cutting an individual, “Burning Rainfall,” with Rondelet labelmates the Nervous Germans. Label politics conspired contrary to the discharge actually occurring, but the brand-new year noticed Smith convene refreshing periods with guitarist Tim Renwick and ex-Adverts key pad player Tim Combination. Route Five, Smith’s initial single album, duly made an appearance in springtime 1983 in the recently shaped Expulsion label; a few months later, however, the business proceeded to go under and, though Smith spent another two years composing furiously and gigging sometimes, when he following publicly surfaced, it had been aboard a fresh band, Inexpensive. That task was still heading solid when Smith came back to single work in middle-1989, performing a brief acoustic place at an Attila the Stockbroker gig in north London. He implemented through by slicing a likewise unplugged version from the Cheap preferred “Newshound” for the B-side from the band’s 12″ “Third Term” in 1990. After that, when Cheap split up in 1991, Smith lay out single in earnest. Early displays alongside Tom Robinson and a fresh album, March from the Giants, had been well received, with 1995’s The Immortal Affluent additional upping his profile. Nonetheless it was Smith’s solo efficiency at the next year’s Vacations in sunlight punk festival, executing the Adverts’ Crossing the Crimson Sea debut record on classical guitar, that set up him one of the country’s most electrifying live performers. (His complete established was captured on the main one Chord Wonder Dvd movie). Regular gigs with German superstars Die Toten Hosen (with whom he initial done their Learning British recording in 1991) noticed 1998’s Era Y released around the punk band’s personal JKP label. Die Toten Hosen would also become his backing music group on 2001’s Ineffective: THE MOST EFFECTIVE of Television Smith, re-recording a perfect assortment of (mainly) old tunes. Smith also documented with Finland’s Punk Lurex Okay and Spain’s Suzi & los Quattros, while he co-wrote twelve tunes on Die Toten Hosen’s 1999 recording Crash Getting. In the first 21st hundred years, Smith was carrying out more than 100 shows annually around Europe as well as the U.S., a program that’s brilliantly recorded in his 2006 publication Getting Presently there: The Tour Diaries. The development of both his songwriting and his overall performance, meanwhile, could be tracked across 2003’s Not really a Bad Day time and 2006’s Misinformation Overload, electrifying units that defy the relatively shocking realization the fact that Adverts are actually a lot more than 30 yrs . old.
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Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Conjuring 2 | 2016 | writer: "Bored Teenagers" - as TV Smith | |
Punk's Not Dead | 2007 | Documentary performer: "Not in My Name" - as TV Smith / writer: "Bored Teenagers", "Not in My Name" - as TV Smith | |
Land of Plenty | 2004 | performer: "Expensive Being Poor" - as TV Smith / writer: "Expensive Being Poor" - as TV Smith | |
Top of the Pops | 1977 | TV Series writer - 1 episode |
Composer
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Brennende Langeweile - Bored Teenagers | 1979 | TV Movie |
Self
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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London's Burning: Campino auf den Spuren des Punk | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
Punk Britannia | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as Tim Smith) |
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1977 | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (as TV Smith) |
Punk's Not Dead | 2007 | Documentary | Himself - The Adverts (as TV Smith) |
The Old Grey Whistle Test: Vol. 2 | 2003 | Video | Himself |
Brennende Langeweile - Bored Teenagers | 1979 | TV Movie | Himself (as The Adverts) |
Top of the Pops | 1977-1978 | TV Series | Himself |
Punk in London | 1977 | Documentary | Himself (as The Adverts) |
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