Welcome to the Test Patterns site.

Test Patterns is the CD made by members of the Marquee Moon Mailing List in tribute to the music of Television and Tom Verlaine.

The Mailing List is "an unmoderated, public mailing list dedicated to discussions about the recordings and career of Television, as well as the solo activities of its individual members". In reality this takes in everything from hazy memories of seeing Television at CGBG in 1975 to arguing about the relative worth of Richard Hell in the great scheme of things. Most things connected (however tenuously) with the New York scene in the mid-70s (and later) find their way there eventually. Basically, for a collection of obsessives, we're a casual and friendly bunch.

We did not set out to make the CD as a financial proposition - we had no intention of making any money out of our efforts or the people whose music we admire. As the list is international, we have contributions from around the world. Some of us are in bands, some used to play live; some have never played live or recorded before.

The only qualification necessary was a desire to take part. Test Patterns is, apart from anything else, a tribute to what can be achieved by a group of people who have never met each other and don't even live in the same hemisphere (never mind time zone).

All the musicians chose their own songs to cover and nobody stood in judgement over what should be included and what shouldn't.





Track 1PRAYER (DUB)
5:22
Keith Allison/SRF-2109
Track 2SEE NO EVIL
3:37
Fine
Track 3MISS EMILY
4:19
Leif Joley
Track 4A TOWN CALLED WALKER
3:39
Eric Wenner
Track 516 TULIPS
4:41
Sand Pebbles
Track 6MISTY EYES
3:28
Steve DiVenuta
Track 7FLASH LIGHTNING
3:52
Maurice Rickard
Track 8GUIDING LIGHT
5:19
Lounge Hounds
Track 9CARRIED AWAY
3:45
Sam Inglis
Track 10LIGHTNING STRUCK ITSELF (Ficca's Funky Thieves)
4:23
Reamann O Gormain
Track 11PROVE IT
4:43
Joe Hartley
Track 12FRICTION
4:34
Shallow End
Track 13POSTCARD FROM WATERLOO
3:34
Greg Grant
Track 14GUIDING LIGHT
6:10
Chris Chapple