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Alternative TV - Peep Show

Original Release Date

1987

Release Information

UK LP 1987 (Anagram - GRAM 32)

A1 Chrissie's Moon 2:20
A2 Let's Sleep Now 3:33
A3 Tumble Time 4:26
A4 The River 2:47
A5 Boy Eats Girl 5:38
A6 My Baby's Laughing (Empty Summer Dream) 3:10
B1 Scandal 7:07
B2 White Walls 3:37
B3 Animal 12:36

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UK CD 1996 (Overground - OVER 54CD)

1 Victory 2:34
2 Repulsion 3:47
3 Chrissie's Moon 2:20
4 Let's Sleep Now 3:32
5 Tumble Time 4:24
6 The River 2:44
7 Welcome To The End Of Fun 4:21
8 Boy Eats Girl 5:41
9 Anti 3:56
10 My Baby's Laughing 3:05
11 Death Time 6:40
12 Scandal 7:08
13 White Walls 3:35
14 Animal 12:34
15 You Never Know 7:35

1, 2, 15 - Sex/Love EP, 1986.
3-6, 8, 10, 12-14: Peep Show LP, 1987
7, 9, 11 - Welcome To The End Of Fun EP, 1986.

Chart Placings

None

Credits

Anagram - GRAM 32:

Alternative TV on this record are:
Mark Perry - guitar, percussion, vocals
Steve Cannell - bass, keyboards, percussion
Allison Philips - drums, percussion
With:
Protag - various guitars
Dave George - keyboards on 'Tumble Time', 'The River' and 'White Walls'
Anno - vocals on 'Boy Eats Girl'
Izzy Davies - vocals on 'Tumble Time' and 'White Walls'
Justin Adams - guitar on 'Let's Sleep Now'
Karl Blake - guitar on 'Boy Eats Girl'
Clive Gilbin - guitar on 'Animal'
Terry Edwards - trumpet, saxophone
Dave Jago - trombone
Frank Sweeny - violin, viola

Recorded May-July 1987 at Cold Storage, Brixton. Engineer: Showbiz.
Silent Music, Rotherhithe. Engineers: Martin and Peter (The Federatin)
'Animal' recorded at Re-Maximum, Clapham.
All mixing at Silent.
Produced and engineered by Grant Showbiz

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Overground - OVER 54CD:

Alternative TV on these tracks are:
Mark Perry - guitar, percussion, vocals
Steve Cannell - bass, keyboards, percussion
Allison Philips - drums, percussion
With:
Protag - guitar on tracks 3,4,5,6,8,10,12,13 & 15
Karl Blake - guitar on tracks 1,2,7,8,9 & 11
Dave George - keyboards on tracks 5,6 & 13
Anno - vocals on track 8
Izzy Davies - vocals on track 5 & 13
Justin Adams - guitar on track 3
Clive Gilbin - guitar on track 14
Terry Edwards - trumpet, saxophone on tracks 6, 10 & 12
Dave Jago - trombone on tracks 6, 10 & 12
Frank Sweeny - violin, viola on track 5

Produced by ATV with help from Grant Showbiz, Martin and Peter.
Recorded at Cold Storage, Silent Music and Re-Maximum.
Tracks 3,4,5,6,8,10,12,13 & 14 originally released on Anagram in 1987
Tracks 1,2,7, 9, 11 & 15 originally released on Noisveille in 1986

Reviews & Opinions

PUNKY GIBBON: Recorded after a long lay-off with hitherto unknown musicians (to me at any rate), this is fairly good and tense. In spots it recalls the more sinister bits from the first LP, but lacks all of the urgency of ATV's best work, and sometimes it's just simply boring (one track drags on for over 13 less-than-captivating minutes!) For light relief, the single taken off the LP ('My Baby's Laughing') is unusually perky, an upbeat acoustic number with images of fish leaping out of the water with joy.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: If '80s Sonic Youth, Pere Ubu, and Wire mean something to you, then later Alternative TV belongs right there on the shelf marked "unsurpassed for originality," maybe subtitled "does not age like wine".