#dan treacy

[sonicandvisualsurprises]

If I Could Write Poetry - Television Personalities

1982

A quiet masterpiece

If I Could Write Poetry captures the bittersweet charm of Television Personalities — simplicity that cuts deep.

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[bandcampsnoop]

10/11/25.

Inscrutable Records (St. Louis, Missouri) are at it again. They usually release in batches. And while I wouldn't normally call two releases a batch, I am today.

Lo and Behold "Onward Journey" is a cassette debut from British musician Louis Harding (UK). The Bandcamp write-up made it sound like I should know him, so I searched him up on Discogs and...wow. He's credited with SIXTEEN different bands - only one of which I've heard of - Fatamorgana (we posted about their "Terra Alta" LP back in March 2019).

"Onward Journey" doesn't sound anything like that. I immediately thought of Martin Newell/Cleaners From Venus. The Bandcamp write-up also mentions Dan Treacy (Television Personalities) and Sad Lovers and Giants.

This is a co-release with UK label Gob Nation.

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[spilladabalia]

Television Personalities ''Favourite Films''

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David Gilmour invited a band, Television Personalities, to perform at a few shows on the UK leg of his About Face tour. The band wrote a song titled 'I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives' as an ode for their appreciation for Syd Barrett. For some strange reason, at the end of the performance of said song, the lead singer, Dan Treacy, literally knew where Syd lived and proceeded to read out Syd's full postal address to the audience. An infuriated and mortified Gilmour dismissed them immediately.

[theprofessorofdesire]

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The Television Personalities, fronted by Dan Treacy, perform at The Living Room on February 10th, 1984.