Cheap Remastered

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Third in the series of remastered albums, TV Smith's Cheap comes with no less than 8 Bonus tracks. Original album has been out of print for over 15 years. Completely repackaged in similar deluxe packaging to March of the Giants & Last words of the great explorer . TV Smith has just completed a tour across Europe with UK Subs. TV Smith's profile was raised significantly by the documentary on BBC about his career. TV Smith was founder member, singer and songwriter for the Adverts, who formed in the summer of 1976, and became one of the leading bands in the first wave of British punk rock. In early 1977 they performed regularly at the seminal Roxy Club in London, and gained cult success with the Stiff Records single "One Chord Wonders." This turned to notoriety when their next release, "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" became a hit record, leading to frequent radio and TV appearances and extensive media interest. A further single, No Time To Be 21 also entered the charts, and the band spent the rest of the year playing live, including major tours with The Damned and Iggy Pop. The album that followed in 1978, "Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts," is still considered a genuine classic, and appears in many Top Ten Punk Album lists. The Adverts released one further album, Cast Of Thousands, before their split in 1979. Slammed by the critics at the time, the album was re-released recently on Fire Records to universal acclaim, and described by Mojo magazine as the long lost punk album that rivals The Clash s London Calling, Many people, including long-time fan Henry Rollins, now rate Cast Of Thousands as one of their favourite albums from the punk era. In the early 1980's TV formed TV Smith's Explorers, who achieved a U.K. hit with the single Tomahawk Cruise and released one album, Last Words Of The Great Explorer. He then spent some years away from the live circuit concentrating on writing and recording, re-entering the live arena in the late 1980's, playing sporadic gigs with his band Cheap, before performing his first gigs as a solo artist in the early 90s. He went on to release a succession of critically-acclaimed albums, including March Of The Giants (1992), Cheap Everything must go (1994) Immortal Rich (1995), Generation Y (1999), Not A Bad Day (2003), Misinformation Overload (2006), In The Arms Of My Enemy (2008), and last year's Coming In To Land. He has also been involved in a number of collaborations with other bands, most notably with German superstars Die Toten Hosen, which led to them performing as TV's backing band on Useless: The Very Best Of TV Smith.