In fact a quick click on the search button revels a sole (brief and unflattering) mention by Retro, who saw them at Bearded Theory a couple of years ago and sounds like he wished he hadn’t. It comes as news to me that Terrorvision were a going concern in 2016, but they could make a great racket in their heyday. A favourite memory from late era ToTP is Julian Cope introducing their anthem Whales and Dolphins, and appearing again after the song, swinging on the scaffolding to the side of the stage while bellowing, ‘Bless you Terrorvision!!!’
They are on my mind because I cherrypicked a couple of singles and an album from a large stash I found in a charity shop today. The singles are signed, but sadly I suspect signed Terrorvision merch is not going to allow me to retire early.
Here’s a reminder for those inclined to hear it.
Just familiar with the How to Make Friends and Regular Urban Survivors albums, but have always liked their mix of hard rock with witty lyrics … And singles Oblivion ( that’s the whales and dolphins one) and Perseverance were top notch…
I think Oblivion was in the pile, and I remember both versions of Perseverence were. No idea if they were signed though. In the unlikely event that you are passing the RSPCA shop in Witham High Street you could call in and check.
Bugger, deleted my own post…
Precis…
Loved them back in the day, Perseverance is the whales and dolphins one.
You’re right about the whales and dolphins
..whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeahhhhhhh…..
Literally the only thing I remember about them is the singer appearing on Buzzcocks. He was incredibly likeable and totally clueless.
That’s what I mentioned to The Light when I was telling her about them but she didn’t remember that either. He signed himself ‘Tone’, with a little drawing of a flying saucer before his name and a kiss after it.
Clueless is probably a bit unfair. Substitute the northernism “daft as a brush”.
How To Make Friends was terrific at the time. The band I was in in the 90s used to cover Alice and Oblivion, doubtless with heroically limited success.
I remember Apache Indian reviewing the singles in an edition of Melody Maker (?) about 25 years ago and saying of that week’s Terrorvision effort “Not really my thing. Man’s got a wicked voice, though.” Pretty much summed them up.
One of the CDs I bought was a single of Alice … It has three mixes of Alice and one other song, which to the casual listener is pretty much indistinguishable from the other three tracks.
Apache Indian… another music press favourite for about ten minutes.
I like the Alice intro. And this is very like the Alice intro..
I maintain that Neil looks like Norman Gunston there.
I did do a thread about ‘Afterwordwhacks’ a few years ago, possibly even before the great crash, about surprisingly large acts who have never ever appeared in these pages. Possibly time to rerun.
Alice was on a Q cover CD, World of Noise. Most of the CD is very good. Worth picking up if you see it in a chazza.
Tony lives around this way in Brontecestercestershire. Bump into him now and again at school music concerts, where his (and our) kids were performing. He packed in the biz in to take up dry-stone walling. Seriously. Returned with a new band Laika Dog. Last time we spoke, he was churning out some rather nice screen-prints onto cards, t-shirts, framed prints from a pop-up shop in Skipton. Talented fella.
That’s nice to hear. As Moose says above Tony always came across as hugely likeable, and I like to think of him leading a life doing the things that make him happy.
For info, Tony is recording an album with Texan, Ryan Hamilton. Here’s the link to their pledgemusic page…
https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/tonywrightryanhamilton