"Director: Amos Poe"

• TV Party: The Sublimely Intolerable Show | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £14.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start - the sound person is late overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux a droll singer songwriter is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff of the Dictators plays the Beach Boys' Be True to Your School backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film Kidnapped with Arto Lindsay Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the white people talk about reggae segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos it's art. Tracklist: 1.Glenn on Mardigras 2.'Lil Rico' Amos Poe 3.Nile Rodgers Call In 4.Luigi Ciccolini Intellectual Talk

• TV Party: Color Show | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £9.61   |  Saving you £2.38 (24.77%)   |  RRP £11.99

  TV Party's final season was broadcast live in color on Channel J a public access commercial station. TV Party tried to pay the extra expense of going to color by selling ads to downtown clubs and underground record companies. Everything here is for sale Glenn announces. Desperation is in the air. Glenn is missing a tooth and needs a haircut. The party is spunky but the cast is depleted and possibly drugged. The TV Party theme music by Walter Steding and rap by Glenn O'Brien opens the show. The show features the TV Party Orchestra with Lenny Ferrari and guitarist Karen Geniece joined by Charles Rocket on heavy metal accordion played through a stack of Marshall amps and an array of guitar pedals. Rocket had just been fired from Saturday Night Live for swearing live on air and his performance of Wild Thing is a triumph of post-modern drollness. He actually gets screaming feedback out of his squeezebox. Jeffrey Lee Pierce of Gun Club shows up with a broken guitar but borrows one and does a soulful Robert Johnson country blues. The half Japanese New York band Eel Dogs plays. Lothar Manteuffel one of Germany's top new wavers ends the show jamming with Rocket on one of the latter's compositions Why Can't I Get Laid. Who knows what he's singing in German. Tracklist: 1.Eel Dogs 2.Loose Joints 3.Al Aronowitz 4.Iraqi princess 5.'I Would Like To' - Walter Steding

• Unmade Beds | DVD | (06/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A