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TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - My Dark Places
| Popmatters | | My Dark Places is the first new record in 11 years from Dan Treacy and his musical vehicle, the Television Personalities, who will be referred to hereafter as the TVPs. For fans of a certain kind of music, there is unlikely to be a more significant release in 2006....full text |
| | MusicOMH.com | | In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer is pronounced a genius by the artistic community as his botched attempt to build a barbecue is hailed as a piece of "outsider art". "It is art that could be done by a mental patient, or a hillbilly or a chimpanzee," the art dealer explains. "Hey!" says Homer. "In high school I was voted most likely to be a mental patient, hillbilly or chimpanzee!"....full text |
| | FasterLouder | | A quick history to The Television Personalities: the British post-punk legends formed in the 1960s and found cult infamy through albums like I Was A Mod Before You Were A Mod and They Could Be Bigger Than The Beatles. Frontman Dan Treacy virtually controlled the band, with an ever-rotation list of players joining the one core member. In the 1990s, he vanished in a drug-fuelled haze and was presumed dead. The singer re-emerged in 2004, this time with a wave of hype thanks to the propping up by bands like Sunderland four-piece The Futureheads as well as the tongue-in-cheek indie-before-indie existed tunes being somewhat in fashion....full text |
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