Alternative TV / The Good Missionaries - Scars On Sunday

Original Release Date

1979

Release Information

UK Tape 1979 (Fuck Off - WEIRD 001)
UK CD 2019 (Winter Hill Recordings - WHR 005CD)

1 Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely
2 Alternative TV - Release The Natives
3 Alternative TV - Radio Story
4 Alternative TV - Lost In Room
5 Alternative TV - Fellow Sufferer
6 Alternative TV - The Force Is Blind
7 The Good Missionaries - Good Missionary/Total Disregard For The Greenwich Theatre
8 The Good Missionaries - Bottom Of The World
9 The Good Missionaries - The Morning They Took Me Away

Chart Placings

None

Credits

Tape:

Mark Perry - vocals, guitar, keyboards, wind instruments, percussion
Dave George - drums, percussion, special effects
Dennis Burns - bass guitar
Anno Wombat - vocals, wind instruments, percussion

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CD:

Recorded on cassette by Grant Showbiz.
Please note, these recordings are sonically lo-fi but historically hi-fi.
Scars On Sunday was originally released on cassette by Fuck Off Records in 1979.

Reviews & Opinions

PUNKY GIBBON: A side of the Missionaries with a side of ATV. This documents ATV's first penultimate gig at the Greenwich Theatre in Spring 1979, with a core trio of Burns, Perry and George joined by Anno. These four also comprise The Good Missionaries on the other side, documenting their first outing, providing an unusual but not very entertaining glimpse of one band falling apart as the other forms. The irony is that not only do both groups sound identical, but they feature the same musicians.

Additional Notes

SLEEVE NOTES (edited): "This is the first in Fuck Off records "Weird Experiments In Noise" collection and is a serious attempt to blow your mind with sound. The Good Missionaries is a natural progression from Alternative TV. ATV in the beginning were a pretty hard hitting if not intriguing sort of punk group. However as time has passed, various members have joined and left the band until the final line up (recorded on side one) decided that the music had changed so much and lots of people were still coming to the gigs expecting the older line ups, that changing the name would be a good idea. About the time of this penultimate gig the music had got so weird that hardcore heavy punks had taken to throwing bottles at the band, on one occasion Mark was knocked unconscious by one, and during side one the tension in the air is easy to spot, as is the final destruction of the equipment by band and audience alike, after the PA is switched off mid-set. Side two starts with a jam recorded on the first Good Missionaries gig, a tentative affair where the group performed in masks, it was all meant as a bit of a laugh really but the band enjoyed the relief from not having a name to live up to, subsequently the content is less strained. The rest of side two feature two performances on the most recent Pop Group tour featuring the newest line-up".

Cassette images from ATVMP Discography blogspot. Click here for more on it.

Images

UK Tape 1979 (Fuck Off - WEIRD 001). Click here for more

UK CD 2019 (Winter Hill Recordings - WHR 005CD). Click here for more