# Test Patterns for Living
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{{Infobox album
| name = Test Patterns For Living
| type = ep
| artist = [Blue Peter](/source/Blue_Peter_(band))
| cover = Testpatternsforliving.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1979
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [New wave](/source/New_wave_music)
| length =
| label = [Ready Records](/source/Ready_Records) RR005[{{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}}]
| producer = Angus MacKay, Andrew Crosby
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [Radio Silence](/source/Radio_Silence_(1980_album))
| next_year = 1980
}}
'''''Test Patterns for Living''''' was the first release, an [EP](/source/Extended_play), by the [Toronto](/source/Toronto)-based [new wave](/source/New_wave_music) band [Blue Peter](/source/Blue_Peter_(band)). Released in 1979, it included the single "Factory Living", which helped the band get their first radio airplay on [CFNY](/source/CFNY).[{{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}}][{{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}}] The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, ''The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection'',[{{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}}] and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack for the [vampire](/source/vampire)/[rock and roll](/source/rock_and_roll) movie ''[Suck](/source/Suck_(film))'';[{{cite web|title=Suck (2009)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323605/soundtrack|work=Soundtracks|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=31 January 2011}}] the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the [Toronto International Film Festival](/source/Toronto_International_Film_Festival) at Yonge-Dundas Square (now [Sankofa Square](/source/Sankofa_Square)) in Toronto, for the film's premiere.[{{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}}]
==Personnel==
* [Paul Humphrey](/source/Paul_Humphrey_(Canadian_musician)) – vocals, keyboards
* [Geoff McOuat](/source/Geoff_McOuat) – bass
* [Ron Tomlinson](/source/Ron_Tomlinson) – drums
* [Chris Wardman](/source/Chris_Wardman) – guitar[{{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}}]
==Track listing==
All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted:[{{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}}]
;Side A
# "Same Old Place" – 3:08
# "Out with the Boys" – 3:03 (Humphrey)
# "Living in the Eighties" – 2:17
# "Time and Money" – 2:10
;Side B
# "Do the Robot" – 3:29
# "Cloak and Dagger" – 3:45
# "Factory Living" – 2:48
==Re-issue==
In 2007, ''Test Patterns for Living'' was re-issued by [Universal Music Canada](/source/Universal_Music_Canada) on compact disc, combined with ''[Radio Silence](/source/Radio_Silence_(1980_album))'', Blue Peter's first [full-length album](/source/LP_record), from 1980.[{{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}}] ''Test Patterns for Living'' appeared as bonus tracks on the ''Radio Silence'' re-issue in the same order as on the original release.