"We came alive in the Living Room..."

as the man described by Noel Gallagher as "The 2nd best song-writer in Britain" once sang. Thing is, Noel, if Edward Ball is 2nd best,who is No.1 ?

(All together now.. "You are No.6")

....sorry,where was I? Oh yeah, Here's some snapshot memories of years ago. Some of The Pop Art Visionaires live at The Living Room,at The Adam Arms.

On   the 4th June 1983  The TV Personalites,played at the Adams Arms pub,in Conway Street,London. The gig was in a room above the pub, usually used as a meeting place for "Dingles Folk Club",but tonight home to an evening  listed in the N.M.E as  "Here Comes The Summer".
             
Now,people who should know,like say, Alan McGee,(whose "Communication Blur" fanzine was promoting the event), and the guy who wrote the Creation Records story, say that the Living Room's first night was headlined by The Nightingales.  They are probably right.

Thing is it doesn't matter whether "Here Comes The Summer" was a trial-run the week before The Nightingales, or was the week after,or whatever. (Makes for a good legend though-TVPs opened AND closed The Living Room's original home-and one that I'm going to stick to-"if in doubt-print the myth" I think I read somewhere).

It's place in music history is secured forever (well indie music anyway) as the night Alan McGee,fanzine writer,gig promoter,guitarist with 3 singles under his belt,and founder of Creation Records, met Joe Foster,aka Joe From Hendon, a Missing Scientist,and playing guitar in fellow Pop Art Visionary Dan Treacy's TV Personalities.

That history records that the meeting went as follows:

Joe: "You Alan?"
Alan: "Yeah"
Joe: "You owe me £5 for the taxi."

Soon Joe would be producing the bands that Alan was signing to Creation,starting the ripple that one day in the distant future (weirdly it would be almost 10 years to the month) lead to the musical tidal wave that was Oasis.


But back to the 4th June:  there were other bands there that night-Miles Landesman,cosmic legend from the Splash Of Colour era band Miles Over Matter, 12 Cubic Feet-including diy cassette artpop/freak out Paul Platypus in their ranks,with the final slot going to Alan's friend,a man who loved the TV Personalities as much as Alan,and The Ramones more than anything else on earth ,and wrote passionately about music that moved him in "Communication Blur",  The Legend and His Swinging Soul Sisters.







Anyway here's some blurry pictures of the night that sort-of changed the World. It was certainly a night that changed mine but that's a story for another time.

and you can hear a lo-fi recording off the TV Personalites set that night HERE

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