Old music: Alternative TV – Life

Beneath the cliched references to the dole queue lurks a sad and funny single from the punk pioneersAlternative TV were one of the groups that sprang up like mushrooms in the wake of Sex Pistols. But unlike so many of the bands inspired by 1976, they had a foot firmly in the birth of punk: they were led by Mark Perry, the founding editor of fanzine Sniffin' Glue (which was also Danny Baker's training ground). Their first record, Love Lies Limp – a song about impotence – was given away as a f...

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