Name: TV Smith & James Mattock
Start: 2025-11-22T19:30:00+00:00
Location: 14 High Street, NP20 1FW Newport, United Kingdom

Le Pub & Cherry Blossom 🌸 present;
🎸 TV Smith & James Mattock
🗓️ Saturday 22nd November 2025
⏰ 19:30 - 16+
🎟️ https://bit.ly/TVSmithLePub
TV Smith was founder member, singer and songwriter for the Adverts, who formed in late 1976, and were one of the leading bands in the first wave of British punk rock.
In early 1977, they performed regularly at the newly-opened Roxy Club in London, and gained cult success with the Stiff Records single "One Chord Wonders." Their next release, "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" became a hit record, leading to radio and TV appear- ances 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 early 1978, "Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts," is still considered a genuine classic of the era and is often cited as one of the twenty best punk albums ever released.
Fiercely independent and proudly embodying the original spirit of punk rock, TV was playing over 100 gigs a year all over the world before Coronavirus hit in 2020. Over 60 gigs were subsequently cancelled, but not to be daunted he went into his home studio and wrote and recorded eleven new songs inspired by the pandem- ic. The resulting album, “Lockdown Holiday,” was released on the Easy Action label in the UK at the be- ginning of 2021, and has been described by many critics as the best of his career.