Tracks: 1. Keep On Running (Big Noise From The Jungle) 2. Flaccid Pot
Format: 7” Released: 1980
South Pacific (Demon Records DS1009)
Tracks: 1. South Pacific 2. The Preacher
Format: 7” Released: 1981
Came with various inserts
After Dinner Music (Waldos Records)
Tracks: 1. Left 1 2 2. Nelson Was A Nance 3. Sawtooth 4. Two Eggs on My Plate 5. Mach 9 6. Kungettma Tone 7. Back In Time For Tea 8. Walk Small 9. Psychotic Reaction 10. Contract Killer
Format: MP3 Download Released: 2008 (recorded in 1982)
Walk Small (Waldos Records)
Tracks: 1. Walk Small
Format: MP3 Download Released: 2008 (recorded in 1982)
Demos, Compilations, Oddities etc......
Nigel Simpkins - X-Enc (Waldos Records BS002) Nigel Simpkins was a pseudonym used by Cally
Tracks: 1. Times Encounter 2. Scattered Strategies 3. Oblique References
Format: 7” EP Released: 1978
Cleaning Up The Music Biz (Waldos Records DS005)
Side 1: 1. The Tea Set - Acid Pop 2. Clive Pig - You Say I Say 3. Cheap Flights - Tax Exile 4. Nick O-Teen - The Master 5. Tepid Halibut - Yellow Wire 6. Waldo - Oscars Lobster
Side 2: 1. Clive Pig & the Hopeful Chinamen - Happy Abe 2. The Bears - Wacky Scout 3. The Bodies - Machines 4. Toys - My Mind Wanders 5. Clive Pig & the Hopeful Chinamen - Shadows 6. Nigel Simpkins - Edgar Felt His Face Flush
Format: Cassette Tape (reissued later on CD) Released: 1979
Tea Set Promotional Tape (Waldos Records
Side 1: 1. Parry Thomas 2. Tri-X-Pan 3. B52G 4. Sing Song
Side 2: 1. Saw Tooth 2. Acid Pop 3. On Them
Format: Cassette Tape Released: 1979
John Peel Session for Radio One
Tracks: 1. Keep On Running 2. Nelson Was A Nance 3. Kungettma Tone 4 Contract Killer
Format: Radio Broadcast (see BBC details here) Released: 1980 (Rebroadcast in 2011 on Radio 6 Music)
Various - The Indie Scene 1980 (Connoisseur Records) A 22 Track Compilation CD including Joy Division, The Fall, Dead Kennedys, Echo & The Bunnymen...and one Tea Set track...
Tracks: 1. Parry Thomas
Format: CD Released: 1980
Various - Teenage Treats Volume 1 (Xerox Records) A 12 Track (bootleg) Compilation LP punk bands. Includes The Tea Set and The Bears. Nice write up of album and MP3s here
Tracks: 3. The Bears - On Me 12. TheTea Set - Sing Song
Format: LP Released: 1998
Various - Messthetics 102 (Messthetics Records) A 23 Track Compilation CD of post-punk bands from North London including The Astronauts, Steve Treatment and our heroes The Tea Set and Nigel Simpkins.
Tracks: 1. TheTea Set - Sing Song 2 Nigel Simpkins - Oblique References
Format: CD Released: 2009
Satellite St Albans Museum Exhibition Compilation
Tracks: Contract Killer (Peel Session) Saw Tooth (Demo) Parry Thomas
Format: CD Released: 2011
Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave Box Set (Demon)
4 CD Box set of 77 classic Punk and New Wave songs including “Parry Thomas”
The CD box set was reissued as a double colour vinyl LP on Rescord Store Day in 2018 and included the track on that too!
Format: CD Box Set & Vinyl double LP
Released: CD Box Set 2017 & Vinyl 2018
Back In Time For Tea (Cleopatra Records)
Compilation of all the singles plus new track “Pharaohs”
Tracks: On Me Sing Song Grey Starling B52G Parry Thomas Tri-X-Pan Keep On Running (Big Noise From The Jungle) Flaccid Pot South Pacific The Preacher Walk Small Pharaohs
Format: CD & Vinyl Released: 2019
To find out what members of The Tea Set did next....