TV Smith Announces New Album ‘Lockdown Holiday’

TV Smith (The Adverts) has announced he will be releasing his new solo album “Lockdown Holiday” on the 27th November via JKP in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and Easy Action in the UK and rest of the world. The album will be preceded by a free double A-side video single of two of the songs, ‘Send In The Clown‘ and ‘I Surf The Second Wave‘, that will be available on YouTube from the 9th October.

Signed copies of “Lockdown Holiday” can be pre-ordered direct from TV Smith.

You can read a more about “Lockdown Holiday” in TV Smith‘s own words below

This was a record I never intended to make. At the beginning of March I was about to embark on a lengthy UK tour with Stiff Little Fingers and had more than fifty gigs planned for the rest of the year, including some of the biggest venues I had ever played supporting Die Toten Hosen in Germany over the Summer. Suddenly everything changed. Even before the tour started, news of the Covid 19 virus reaching Europe arrived. After only three dates the tour was abandoned, I headed back home, the country went into lockdown, and – even worse – a couple of days later my partner and I fell ill and we realised we had gone down with the Coronavirus. We even knew the exact moment we had caught it: on the way to the last of the gigs we had stopped off at a motorway service station and while queuing for a coffee, someone sneezed in front of us. If Britain’s government had taken the situation seriously and put the country into lockdown a week earlier, as much of the rest of Europe had, it would never have happened. But now the damage was done.

 

From my sickbed I watched with utter disbelief as the mismanagement of the situation got worse and worse, and when I started to feel well enough again I did what any writer would have done: I began to write about what was happening.