The Magnificent 40 Vol 1

Description

TMTCH came into being on stage at the Alternative Country Festival, Electric Ballroom, Camden on Easter Sunday in 1984; after a long afternoon of busking and drinking in a Hammersmith underpass. They knew three chords and a hundred songs which all sounded pretty much the same, a high energy skiffle that was exciting to jump around to. Forty years later they are still at it. From those beginnings, and with no other plan than to always keep moving forwards, TMTCH has released around twenty albums as well as many side projects, bootlegs and an indeterminate number of T-shirts. They have toured constantly, whether in the back rooms of grimy pubs or in grand ballrooms and festival stages. From Cairo to Reykjavik and all points in between, the TMTCH roadshow has been chaotic and exciting across the decades, always passionate, always informed, sometimes dishevelled. Forty years of recording has resulted in a vast back catalogue, here well represented with songs from every album, style and era; a tapestry of human stories and vibrant characters.