| Lineup | Notes |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (Back. vocals, guitar) John Bennett (Drums) Gerard Bennett (Bass) |
August 1977 Recorded '14th Floor' single [Rel Jan 78] |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (drums, guitar, backing vocals) |
August 1978 Recorded the 'Where's Bill Grundy Now?' EP [Rel Nov 78] |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (drums) |
January 1980 'Smashing Time' single sessions [Rel Jul 80] |
| Dan Treacy Joe Foster (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
Initial gigs 1980. Debut tour of Europe, October 1980. |
| Joe Foster departed after European tour due to 'musical differences' with Empire. | |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
October 1980 Recorded debut LP 'And Don't The Kids Just Love It'. [Rel Jan 81] |
| Dan Treacy Bernie Cooper (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
Winter 1980/81 Various 'Gifted Children' recording sessions. 'Painting by Numbers' single. [Rel May 81] |
| Bernie apparently 'disappeared'. | |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
Joint TVP / Times UK tour, Spring 1981. |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
Summer 1981. Ed Ball back for recording sessions for the second TVP LP, 'Mummy Your Not Watching Me' [rel Jan 82], which included 'Gifted Children' session tracks done with Bernie Cooper. Debut tour of Holland Aug 1981. |
| Ed Ball left at the beginning of 1982, citing differences between Dan and himself over the future direction of their Whaam! label, and his wish to concentrate on his own band, The Times. | |
| Dan Treacy Joe Foster (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
May 1982. Joe Foster returned for two gigs in Germany, as Ed Ball was unavailable - supporting Nico at the Berlin Free University, then Hamburg the following evening. |
| Dan Treacy Mark Flunder (bass) Mark "Empire" Sheppard (drums) |
Autumn 1982 - Spring 1983 gig lineup. |
| Mark Sheppard departed in Spring 1983 and later joined the Barracudas. | |
| Dan Treacy Joe Foster (12 string guitar) Mark Flunder (bass) Dave Musker (organ) |
Summer 1983 lineup. Various drummers were used for live performances, including the singer from the group
Mood Six at one Living Room performance.
Recording sessions for 'The Painted Word' LP took place. Note that the tracks on the album with drums are earlier recordings, made with Mark Sheppard. |
| Dan Treacy Joe Foster (12 string guitar) Mark Flunder (bass) Dave Musker (organ) Jeff Bloom (drums) |
Late 1983. Jeff Bloom in band for 'disastrous' tour of Italy. |
| Dan Treacy Joe Foster (12 string guitar) Jowe Head (bass) Dave Musker (organ) Jeff Bloom (drums) |
Jowe Head replaced Mark Flunder for the tour of Europe in January 1984. |
| Joe Foster and Dave Musker had departed by mid-1984. | |
| Dan Treacy Jowe Head (bass) Jeff Bloom (drums) |
1984 - 1993 Amongst others, this lineup recorded: 'How I Learned to Love the Bomb' single (1986). 'Privilege' LP (1990). 'Closer To God' LP (1992). 'Strangely Beautiful' EP (1991). 'She's Never Read My Poems' EP (1992). The trio also took the TVPs to the US for the first time, Spring 1992. |
| Note that Ed Ball played keyboards for some gigs at the end of 1988. Jeff Bloom departed before the tour of the USA in mid-1993. |
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| Dan Treacy Jowe Head (bass) Lenny Helsing (drums) |
1993 - 94. Lenny was in the band for the return trip to America (Summer 1993) and the tour of Japan in the Spring of 1994. He can be heard on the live albums 'Top Gear' and 'Made in Japan' (both from that tour). Dan employed several other drummers during this period also, including Matthew Fletcher (then of the band Heavenly), and Mark Flunder on one occasion. |
| Jowe Head departed after 1994 tour of Japan. | |
| Dan Treacy Liam Watson (bass) Sexton Ming (drums) |
1994 - 95. Dan recorded mostly solo at Toe Rag studios around this time, with assistance from Liam on percussion. Eg the 'I Was A Mod Before You Was A Mod' album, which also featured backing vocals by Sexton. This trio toured Germany in May 1995. |
| Dan Treacy Graeme Wilson (bass) Sexton Ming (drums) |
Tour of Europe May 1996. Graeme Wilson replaced Liam on bass. The last TVP gig for 8 years took place in June 1996 in London on their return. |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (bass) Victoria Yeulet (vocals) Mathew Sawyer (drums) |
Television Personalities re-emerged in 2004. Graeme Wilson (then playing with The Projects) also helped out in studio recording sessions in October 2004. |
| Mathew Sawyer replaced by John Bennett by mid-2006. | |
| Dan Treacy Ed Ball (bass) TexasBob (guitars, bass) Stickymoan (keyboards, bass, guitar) Victoria Yeulet (vocals) John Bennett (drums) |
Lineup from late 2006. |
| Dan Treacy (vocals, 12 string electric & 6 string electric guitars, keyboards, hammond organ, bass) Ed Ball (bass, vocals) TexasBob (12 string electric & 12 string acoustic guitars, E-Bow, vocals, keyboards) Stickymoan (keyboards, bass, 6 string electric guitars, melodica, vocals) Victoria Yeulet (vocals) John Bennett (drums & percussion ) Kev Mann (drums & percussion ) |
Summer 2007 lineup. Kev Mann alternating gigs with John Bennett from mid-2007. |
| Dan Treacy (vocals, 12 string electric & 6 string electric guitars, keyboards, hammond organ, bass) TexasBob (12 string electric & 12 string acoustic guitars, E-Bow, vocals, keyboards) Mike Stone (keyboards, bass, 6 string electric guitars, melodica, vocals) Kev Mann (drums & percussion ) |
2008 onwards lineup. Lee McFadden deputising on guitar & and occasionally drums now and again. |
| Kev Mann departed, mid-2009. | |
| Dan Treacy (vocals, 12 string electric & 6 string electric guitars, keyboards, hammond organ, bass) TexasBob (12 string electric & 12 string acoustic guitars, E-Bow, vocals, keyboards) Mike Stone (keyboards, bass, 6 string electric guitars, melodica, vocals) Arnau Obiols (drums & percussion ) |
July 2009 onwards lineup. Arnau Obiols replaced Kev Mann. |