TV'S OVER PRESENTS...

TV SMITH & THE BORED TEENAGERS

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All the way from

Barcelona, TV Smith’s Catalonian band The Bored Teenagers return to Britain for

a short tour in Autumn 2026.

Although known mainly as a solo artist these days,

TV still plays a small amount of gigs with a full electric band backing him. He

first met them when bassist BB Quattro invited him over to Spain in 2003 for a

few concerts with his punk-pop band, Suzy & Los Quattro, fronted by their

dynamic female vocalist Suzy Chain. Re-named as “The Bored Teenagers,” the band

backed up TV on a few songs during the encores, and on a day off during the

tour they went into the studio and recorded a single together “What If?/New

Church,” which was released in Spain on the “No Future” label. Self-confessed

Adverts fans, the band went on to learn the entire “Crossing The Red Sea” album

and played it in full with TV on his fiftieth birthday at London’s esteemed 100

Club in 2007.

Since then, TV and the

band have toured regularly together throughout Europe, and made many main stage

appearances at the annual Rebellion Festival in Blackpool. In 2022, after they

had thrilled a wildly enthusiastic capacity crowd there, they dropped into a

local studio and recorded the songs just as they had performed them on stage -

no frills, no pauses, no overdubs, all the energy and excitement of the live

show distilled onto tape in one single glorious take. The resulting album was

released as “TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers Replay The Adverts” on the Easy

Action label.

The band now have all

the Adverts songs in their repertoire, and many of TV Smith’s later recordings

too, with their live set evolving into a mix of both, all played with the

energy and ferocity they have become renowned for. Catch them live this year on

the Empress Ballroom stage at Rebellion in August, and a carefully selected run

of club dates in September.

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