Things continue at a lively pace with another interesting band that was also on the road with tinkling instruments, an decent improvement on yesterday. We're talking about the Tea Set, a Watford based PopPunk combo who were active between 1978-1982 and the band was formed 1978 at Watford College of Art by Nic (vocals), Stewart (guitars), Ron (bass, whose previous band the Bears had broken up after singer Mick North was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident along with Pete Dallymore singer of the Paper Doylies), Cally (drums), Mark (keyboard) and in their short lifetime they released four 7Inches, this piece is the debut on Waldo's Records. The EP sold out its initial run of 1500 copies extremely fast, partly due to the forty second track 'B52G', which was a crowd favourite. The second follow up, released in 1979 was the Sounds Magazine's record of the week and had great reviews throughout the Alternative Music Media. John Peel added the track to his pioneering BBC radio show (the band later recorded one of his famous Peel Sessions). This got the attention of the Stranglers front man, Hugh Cornwell, who was serving time in Brixton Prison for possession of Hashish. Hugh produced the bands third 7Inch (in the bands words "The most expensive 'B' side ever made"). Unfortunatey, due partly, to the media's dislike of The Stranglers (they once kidnapped a music journalist) the song was considered a huge disappointment. The Tea Set disbanded in 1982 after numerous performances that were reminiscent of concerts with rave reviews. Cleopatra Records released in 2019 a Compilation (Back In Time For Tea) with all single tracks plus two unreleased songs. Grab it!
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