Name: 1978
Brand: TV Smith and Richard Strange

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MS0002LP

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Colour

Colour details

Transparent Red

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5055869547741

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / red

Artist

TV Smith and Richard Strange 

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Molecular Scream

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.

1978

Music GB