We celebrate our spiritual inspiration, Glenn O’Brien and the cast and crew of TV, Party. From 1978 to 1982 a party in New York took over cable access television each week, taking the format and its viewers to places it had never gone before: to the very edge of civility and “sub-realism” as the shows presenter Glenn O’Brien put it. Co-hosted by Chris Stein of Blondie, the hour-long program was a who’s who of New Yorks downtown scene. The show itself was akin to a televised evening at one of New Yorks legendary nightclubs, and coincidentally existing in precisely the same duration of time as the Mudd Club and Club 57 (all three-starting life in 1978 and were pronounced dead in 1983). The TV Party studio welcomed the likes of Jean Michel Basquiat, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Klaus Nomi, Fab Five Freddy, Iggy Pop, James Chance and George Clinton, alongside many many more bullshitters. But the shows line-ups were always democratic and without hierarchy, it was after all a televised cocktail party, that could have been a pollical party. Limited edition artwork is available for sale at all TV Parties.