Gaye Advert was just as good if not better than her contemporaries. Fuck those two assholes that said otherwise!

A shame how short this show is it feels the Kevin llloyd bit was heavily edited. What a good sport he was!! I bet him and sievey put a few jars away after the show!!

Is that a caged young Hugh Dennis?

Frank asked Hamilton what time does he have to go to bed at night and he replied I'm a Virgo!

57:21 i perceive TV Smith as the most irritating person i enjoy exchanging a few words with: I'll NEVER be able to write chords progressions as simple with little hooks just so and it is tolerable, but on top of it he writes lyrics that are too often saying effortlessly what i can't articulate but worse than everything some of the damned lyrics seem to tell about my life or are adressed to me, that is forcing me to resort to cortisone ointment so irritated i am after his gigs. And then there are a few songs that tear me up emotionally... even if i have never gone fishing for out-of-date WW2 mines , that day we caught the big fish ... i get leaks in the nose and eyes*...

johnny rotten's a "great lyricist?" you must jhave sex pistols records i never heard about.... Glen Matlock could play bass , but Gaye , was able to play circles around sid viscous, and really it takes 3 weeks , starting from never having held an instrument , to be able to play the 1st ramones album on bass, not brilliantly but ADEQUATELY. In Bored teenagers and in No time to be 21 Gaye pulls out a transition that really serve to articullate the songs and savevthem from verse chorus prison. Now just tell me which sex pistols and Stranglers lyrics have somthing as weird and crazed innocently angry as ...i dunno... we who wait , bomsite boy ? 5i will walk you home the great british mistake i looked at the sun are incomparable so let's compare to less blindingly brilliant songs of thde adverts) and who wrote something as true to lies about life like quickstep? this song lyrics make me laugh every time... new friends with fate no money and no taste! you gotta work what a drag when this gig is over i don't want to see it again.... and the young 3 rehearsal band arrogannce "you'll soon see what punks can do! up to the prophetic last verse. That is what happens to play in punk rock mediocre to great punk bands...... LIFE RUINED MY ROCK n ROLL sez i! come on , tell me about johnny rotten brilliance as a lyricist. PIL? "you never listened to a word that i said....3 well, if you weren't making a point of sounding uncomprehesible.. ok, let's Read your lyrics: it is a collection of insulting shlock like if it had been done by making a list of "what does ressembles to an embittered entitled (oh a é&st century fascist PC conceptword!) little kid having a tantrum and wishing he could . I can't cope with the pettiness of that honorary Kardasian that is the J.rotten pontifications and cheap shots to whoever he feels threatens his status of punk incarnate. he once said in a tv interview nov 76 .... "after school,you get a stupid job in a factory, you marry at 18 and have a couple children...then when you are barely 30 you realiser all you really want is kill yourself..." that was said without too much theatrics( just the i'm speeding , me! eyes), he sounded fairly sincere..... then, that day, for 2mns..... while TVSMITH is probably unable to be anything else but himself all the time , at least on the crazy job of writing performing songs talking to random audience members without getting impatient with them. he is sticking to the lies "no more heroes and "damn the record industry these foundations of punk rock long swallowed by the subsiding palace of the "aristocracy of punk" It costs plenty to stick to ideals thaty have been ridiculed and even forgotten. This i know what of i talk about.

THAT BAND WAS FIREEEEEEEEEE

The amaturish unique sound GENIUS!! !Most joyuus of days.....

I wonder if Vic & Bob got the idea for Shooting Stars after watching this classic series?

Great. 2 classic albums

Tim was so much more than the Adverts regardless how brilliant his early work is, the solo material elevates to another plain and show the tremendous song writing ability, the beauty, energy and relevance of the songs. He is one of the great songsmith's this country has ever produced.

Being a Canadian in my 20s I feel like I have no business watching this, but I saw a video of him doing a Fall parody and found my way over here. love it.

victory Vs were fantastic, you know they were, they really were 😂

Pure gold

John puts everything into it great job

Poor Gerry Anderson does not seem to no what to make of Frank😂

The guy was crazy but also a genius

This is not a love song This is not a love song, this is not a love song This is not a love song, this is not a love song I'm crossing over (This is not a love song) This is not a love song, this is not a love song This is not a love song, this is not a love song [Chorus] This is not a love song, this is not a love song This is not a love song, this is not a love song This is not a love song [Verse 1] This is not a love song Happy to have, not to have not Big business is very wise I'm crossing over into enterprise [Chorus] This is not a love song (This is not a love song) This is not a love song (This is not a love song) This is not a love song (This is not a love song) Oh no [Verse 2] I'm adaptable and I like my new role I'm getting better and better, I have a new goal I'm changing my ways where money applies This is not a love song

Thank you.

Bands amazing

Franks shed is an absolute treasure trove of nostalgia - wonder they got so much stuff to fill it.

Australian light entertainment must dead with all this talent over here

J'adore l'authenticité de Johnny Rotten

God awful audience posing as a "laugh track"

Excellent, good to see him with The Damned again in Newcastle. TV can't do anything wrong in my book.

TV Smith will be performing at Plaguefest 2024 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire on Sunday 14th July (2024) if you are anywhere near - 11 hours of live music & entertainment in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. As well as TV Smith, there will also be performances from Janus Stark, Tony Wright (Terrorvision), Arkdown & loads more. Tickets are available now from all the usual websites - just search for Plaguefest 2024. Thank you.

O9:23

Haunting and timeless

Excellent documentary and great songwriter.

Wish Frank was still around he would be amazing on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown

Looks like Niki Lauda with a terrible wig.

I proudly wear my Timperley Bigshorts football shirt.

This is non stop gold

Very nice that HEAVY METAL KIDS got a mention !! I had the great firtune of seeing him in NY . Backed by a great punk band THE MÌDNIGHT CREEPS . Who had a a very similar feel to Adverts . Not on puropse but solid simple ric bass ,un sophisticated guitar, solid drums . And TV on top . Close as I'll ever get . SOLID SEND !!! As closec

RIP Nicholas and Chris

RIP Kevin Caroline and Chris

IT is A SHAME THE DEBUT ALBUM WAS SO BAD, CAST OF THOUSANDS HAD TERRIBLE PRODUCTION, LIVE AT THE ROXY SOUNDED BETTER, I'm shouting again... GG eyes was OK, and their gigs were nothing to write home about, Let's be honest they were not even B-grade punk, they grade C

This was before the world went mad

Fabulous shorts indeed Pedro! x

Delay in space, have a look at apollo.

He wasn't drunk and was against drugs. He was a free spirit, child like, inteligent, fun loving, blunt, honest, artistic in many ways man.

Yorkshire tv made some fucking good shit

Great gig tonight lad

Cheap were a class band

Legend 🎶

John Lydon IS the P i L!

The drunkeness is an act. Fake.

Fucking hell i keep coming back to this, but as pilots go this was sensational. How on earth Frank wasnt massive is beyond me. We was big though in Timperley. He was. He really was.

Where is the footage of John stalker arresting Frank? I've only got a picture of it?

3 consummate egos together.