In 2022, Perry reformed Alternative TV for a series of gigs in the South West with Jimmy Jewell, Mark Tempest and Alan Burton. This line-up played their final gig in September.
Their first studio album in fourteen years, Opposing Forces , was released through Lost Moment/Public Domain on 10 July 2015.
ATV’s last studio album for over a decade, Revolution , was released in 2001, followed in 2003 by the official bootleg album Viva La Rock’n’ Roll – consisting of live performances recorded in the UK, France, Germany and the US. In 2004, Perry recorded the Ramones song “Now I Wanna…
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Perry reformed ATV in 1985. This line up started with Karl Blake, Steve Cannell and Allison Philips. Martin ‘Protag’ Neish and then Clive Giblin featured later on guitar and ATV released further records over the following decade with varying line-ups, Perry being the only constant member. Another line-up followed with…
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From 1981 to 1982, Perry had a new project, The Reflections, a band with Nag from The Door and the Window, Karl Blake (of Lemon Kittens ) and Grant Showbiz , among others. They released one album, Slugs and Toads , and a single, “4 Countries”, before disintegrating.
Alternative TV soon evolved into the avant-garde project The Good Missionaries (taking the name from a track on the Vibing album), releasing one live album, Fire From Heaven , in 1979. Perry also joined the experimental duo The Door and the Window, releasing some EPs and a studio album, Detailed…
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By the end of 1978, only Perry and Burns remained from the previous line-up, although ATV used additional musicians live and in the studio. The band’s second album, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) , saw the band take a more explicitly experimental direction, which alienated both the music…
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The band’s debut on record was “Love Lies Limp”, a free flexi disc issued with the final edition of Perry’s Sniffin’ Glue fanzine. For their first two singles Perry and Fergusson were accompanied by drummer John Towe (ex- Generation X ) and Tyrone Thomas on bass; Towe later left to…
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At the end of 1977, Perry sacked his chief collaborator and co-writer Fergusson. The latter went on to form the short-lived Cash Pussies and, a few years later, Psychic TV along with Genesis P-Orridge. Tyrone Thomas switched to guitar, later replaced by Kim Turner, while Dennis Burns joined on bass.…
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