TV Party

From 1978 to 1982 Glenn OBrien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party Cohosted by Chris Stein from Blondie and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe the hour long show took television where it had never gone before to the edge of civility and subrealism as Glenn would put it Walter Steding and his TV Party Orchestra provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand and many artists and musicians from The Clash Nile Rodgers JeanMichel Basquiat David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests It was the cocktail party that could be a political party With 80 hours of disintegrating 34 inch videotape as a starting point we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives This combined with clips from the orginal show became the documentary TV Party