Night of Terror in store for band's followers

In the past they have set the chandeliers shaking in the Grand Ballroom of the Pennington Midland Hotel and even played in a pub beer garden as a warm-up for the Reading Festival.

Last night, they surpassed themselves by performing a midnight gig in a record shop to mark the release of their new album.

The CD, Shaving Peaches, is out today and Terrorvision played a 45-minute set upstairs at the Virgin Megastore in Tyrrel Street, Bradford to celebrate.

"This is the best chance you'll ever get to dance in the old Rackham's," singer Tony Wright told the audience.

"So pretend it's the crockery department."

More than 250 fans packed into the shop for the event, which gave fans the chance to be the first in Britain to buy the album.

Free tickets were quickly snapped up when they were given away at the shop on Saturday, and after last night's gig the band signed copies of Shaving Peaches.

The illuminated sign just a few yards from where the band played said 'Classical and Jazz', but the musicians soon blew away that notion with a lively 12-track set which fairly set the CD racks trembling.

Terrorvision played a smattering of old favourites as well as five songs from Shaving Peaches, which encouragingly sounded every bit as impressive as the band's more familiar material.

The midnight session was a first for a Bradford record shop, and the accident-prone Tony Wright, sporting a gap-toothed grin after his latest fall, thanked Virgin Megastore for allowing Terrorvision to stage the midnight session.

"We thought, 'Where better to release the new album than the place where we're from, which is Bradford?' " he said.

And the fans liked the idea. "They're a brilliant band and they keep in touch with their roots. It was a great night," said 17-year-old Jenny Collins, from Idle, who was among the first in the queue when the shop opened.

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