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Some things just make you feel good all over. Like when a group of bands get together to play music and raise money for an idol who's fallen on hard times.

Flashback to July 30, 2004, when New York City's Baskervilles and several area acts they'd recruited-- including My Favorite and Burnside Project-- are doing just that at NYC's Sin-é, paying tribute to Dan Treacy of Television Personalities, who found himself penniless after being released the month before following a term on a prison boat.

Together, the acts raised over $1,000, which Treacy used to record a bunch of songs set to appear on the forthcoming Are We Nearly There Yet?, a collection of semi-new TVPs material slated for U.S. release on February 20, 2007 via Overground Records. Treacy recorded these 13 tracks-- including covers of Bruce Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind" and the Killers' "Mr. Brightside"-- with producer Simon Trought at London's Soup Studios. He subsequently recorded My Dark Places at Soup, which saw release earlier this year via Domino.

"I'm as proud and disappointed of this CD as anything I've ever done," wrote the ever-amusing Treacy in a press release. Seems the man hasn't rested since resurfacing, and according to his ever-amusing blog, he's already writing songs for the next TVPs album.

February 20 will also see the release of a four-song Television Personalities EP collecting remixes of tunes from All My Dark Places. Domino will deliver the affair, and remixers include Black Dice, E*Vax of Ratatat, I Will (aka Ian Williams of Battles), and Brooklyn duo LingLing. That same disc arrives January 29 in the UK.

Catch Treacy live this winter as Television Personalities play two London dates.

Are We Nearly There Yet?:

01 Are We Nearly There Yet?
02 The Peter Gabriel Song
03 The Eminem Song
04 I Get Scared When I Don't Know Where You Are
05 I See Dead People
06 If I Could Write Poetry
07 If I Should Fall Behind
08 Coltrane's Ghost
09 Mr. Brightside
10 All the Midnight Cowboys
11 All the King's Horses
12 You Are Loved
13 It's All About the Girl

Remix EP:

01 You Kept Me Waiting Too Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long Long (E*Vax Remix)
02 My Dark Places (I Will Remix)
03 All the Young Children (Rainbows in Tunnels Mix by LingLing)
04 She Can Stop Traffic (Black Dice Remix)

TVPs on the road:

12-04 London, England - Windmill
01-30 London, England - 93 Feet East