{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox album | name = Test Patterns For Living | type = ep | artist = Blue Peter | cover = Testpatternsforliving.jpg | alt = | released = 1979 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = New wave | length = | label = Ready Records RR005<ref name=ready>{{cite web|title=The Ready Records Catalogue|url=http://www.readyrecords.ca/cat.html|work=Catalogue|publisher=Ready Records|accessdate=31 January 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827133219/http://www.readyrecords.ca/cat.html|archivedate=27 August 2010}}</ref> | producer = Angus MacKay, Andrew Crosby | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Radio Silence | next_year = 1980 }}
'''''Test Patterns for Living''''' was the first release, an EP, by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Released in 1979, it included the single "Factory Living", which helped the band get their first radio airplay on CFNY.<ref name=Jam!>{{cite web|title=Blue Peter|url=http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Blue_Peter.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223024202/http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Blue_Peter.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 December 2015|work=The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia|publisher=Canoe Jam!|access-date=31 January 2011|date=18 December 2004}}</ref><ref name=BPTPFL>{{cite web|title=Blue Peter :: Test Patterns For Living :: 1979|url=http://bluepeterband.com/test_patterns_for_living|work=Discography|publisher=Blue Peter|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, ''The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection'',<ref name=Readyvol1>{{cite web|title=the BEST OF READY RECORDS VOLUME 1|url=http://www.readyrecords.ca/vol1.htm|work=Catalog|publisher=Ready Records|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack for the vampire/rock and roll movie ''Suck'';<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|title=Suck (2009)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323605/soundtrack|work=Soundtracks|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square (now Sankofa Square) in Toronto, for the film's premiere.<ref name=YDS>{{cite web|title=Toronto International Film Festival|url=http://www.ydsquare.ca/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=122&extmode=view&extid=161|work=Special Events and Festivals|publisher=Yonge-Dundas Square|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref>
==Personnel== * Paul Humphrey – vocals, keyboards * Geoff McOuat – bass * Ron Tomlinson – drums * Chris Wardman – guitar<ref name=Discogs>{{cite web|title=Test Patterns for Living|url=http://www.discogs.com/Blue-Peter-Test-Patterns-for-Living/release/327342|work=Blue Peter Discography|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref>
==Track listing== All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted:<ref name=Discogs /><ref name=Allmusic>{{cite web|title=Test Patterns for Living|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/test-patterns-for-living-r616693|work=Blue Peter Discography|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> ;Side A # "Same Old Place" – 3:08<br /> # "Out with the Boys" – 3:03 (Humphrey)<ref name=BPRS /> <br /> # "Living in the Eighties" – 2:17<br /> # "Time and Money" – 2:10<br /> ;Side B # "Do the Robot" – 3:29<br /> # "Cloak and Dagger" – 3:45<br /> # "Factory Living" – 2:48
==Re-issue== In 2007, ''Test Patterns for Living'' was re-issued by Universal Music Canada on compact disc, combined with ''Radio Silence'', Blue Peter's first full-length album, from 1980.<ref name=BPRS>{{cite web|title=Radio Silence (Bonus Tracks)|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/radio-silence-bonus-tracks-r1268381/review|work=Blue Peter Discography|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=31 January 2011}}</ref> ''Test Patterns for Living'' appeared as bonus tracks on the ''Radio Silence'' re-issue in the same order as on the original release.<ref name=BPRS />
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Category:Blue Peter (band) albums Category:1979 debut EPs