TV Smith & Richard Strange

TV Smith (The Adverts) & Richard Strange (Doctors Of Madness) recorded an album together in 1978 but it was never released. Now Rough Trade have rediscovered & released it in July this year. They are touring to support the album... called '1978', plus they'll be playing some of their 'hits'.

The tracks on this album have never been officially released before now. The eight songs on this album were recorded in 1978 on a 2-track stereo Revox A77 tape recorder. The recordings are unashamedly analogue, using one microphone and guitars plugged directly into the tape recorder. Bouncing down tracks irreversibly as they went on, forced to make creative decisions that could not be undone. Some hard choices had to be made with the mix, but with no record company meant no record company agenda. TV Smith and Richard Strange could write and record whatever they wanted – and did! It has been an enormous pleasure to rediscover these recordings, the result of a friendship of two artists emerging from broken bands and each about to embark on a lifelong adventure in words and music.