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ALTERNATIVE TV\u00a0\u2013 Nasty Little Lonely \/ Release The Natives \/ The Radio Story \/ Lost In Room \/ Fellow Sufferer \/ The Force Is Blind \/ The Good Missionary \/ Total Disregard For The Greenwich Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n GOOD MISSIONARIES \u2013 Bottom Of The World \/ The Good Missionary Goes For A Walk \/ The Morning They Took Me Away<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Perry \u2013 The Godfather of all things DIY, starting with Sniffin Glue fanzine early 1976, releasing countless singles and tapes on various labels including Deptford Fun City \/ Deleted \/ N.B Records \/ Cherry Red\u00a0\/ Unnormality Records \/ 100 Things To Do Records \/ Fuck Off and various other Street Level labels.<\/p>\n In\u00a01978 when being a \u2018punk\u2019 meant seeing The Clash once a year in Town for \u00a33.50\u00a0and wearing a leather jacket a la The Clash, Mark Perry realised that the bands \/ individuals that were actually trying to do things were actually hidden away in\u00a0the (then)\u00a0much despised Hippy \/ Stonehenge \/ Free Festival scene.<\/p>\n He soon tuned into the Latimer Road \/ Holland Park squatting scene, and hung around with the band Here And Now and also Street Level Studios where he recorded a lot of material, A.T.V. went on \u2018free tours\u2019 around the country in small clubs and fields. Mark Perry had records released all over the place in different guises and band names, most of them avant garde with a distinct lack of fuzz guitar, many of the records\u00a0selling fuck all in the shops.<\/p>\n Music papers, and the original ATV fan base\u00a0did not know what to do, or how to approach Mark Perry\u2019s new direction. Some up and coming bands were influenced by this new direction including most obviously The Mob and Zounds, but most audiences were left bemused. This is a tape of the last ATV show when the band had been \u2018experimental\u2019 for some time. Most of the audience hated it, more Throbbing Gristle free form than The Lurkers!<\/p>\n The band changed thier name so THAT audience will not then come to gigs expecting \u2018How Much Longer\u2019\u00a0 to be played night after night.<\/p>\n The Good Missionaries was decided on, and\u00a0the band played out of way places including Centro Iberico, years before the \u2018Anarcho Punk\u2019\u00a0bands that made this venue infamous knew where this broken up old school full of elderly Spainish anti Franco refugees was situated. Ironically though the recording above was actually done at the Lyceum, when they supported The Pop Group.<\/p>\n Some of the bands he was involved with other than ATV and The Good Missionaries were The Door And The Window \/ The Reflections \/ Blue Midnight plus his solo work. 70% of the output is great, 30% is pants. But at least he was trying to be an individual, and trying to get honest work out there.<\/p>\n A lot of people will not like this cassette, but I think it is worth adding to the downloads because it is a crossover period from the time that is never documented, when street punks were getting away from high priced London Marquee \/ Lyceum gigs with the bouncers and VAT reciepts, and\u00a0trying something a little more community minded\u00a0in free festivals and of course cheaply recorded singles and LP\u2019s that were sold cheaply, around the same time Crass started to continue this tradition.<\/p>\n You can find lots of books on The Clash, none on this period. Best try Alistair\u2019s Site for\u00a0a few\u00a0snippets and more info<\/p>\n http:\/\/greengalloway.blogspot.com\/search?q=atv<\/a><\/p>\n
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