The Good Missionaries

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 Twang . The following year, Perry released a solo album, Snappy Turns , before he, Burns and Fergusson briefly reformed Alternative TV along with former members of Fergusson’s Cash Pussies in 1981. The reconstituted ATV released one album, Strange Kicks , a venture into light pop songs unlike any of their previous work, produced by Richard Mazda . The album was indifferently received. A later appraisal by AllMusic panned the album, writing that the record, along with ATV’s later work, “[falls] a little flat amidst the confusion and veer[s] closer to the new wave sound than most punks would dare to venture.”