"Lively Arts" is a single released by The Damned.

Big Beat, budget imprint of Chiswick Records

Chiswick Records

Chiswick Records was a British record company. Chiswick was the "first true 'indie' label" to be established in Britain for nearly a decade". The label has been described as "significant" in the "punk era"...

, followed up their belated release of "Wait for the Blackout

Wait for the Blackout

"Wait for the Blackout" was a single by The Damned.Initially, Chiswick issued Wait for the Blackout instead of The History of the World Part 1 as a single to promote The Black Album in Spain, with Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde as the B-side....

" as a single with the release of another track from The Black Album

The Black Album (The Damned)

In a retrospective review, Allmusic called the album hit-or-miss, but added that "tracks of note are still thick on the ground" and that "it's still a surprisingly good blast, a tour de force for Vanian particularly".-Track listing:...

, "Lively Arts". Like all of Big Beat's Damned reissues, the single failed to chart, not helped by the band not promoting it (they had recently released the new LP Strawberries

Strawberries (album)

Strawberries is the fifth album by The Damned, released in October 1982 on Bronze Records.Limited editions included a strawberry scented lyric insert...

on Bronze Records

Bronze Records

Bronze Records is an independent English record label set up in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron, and based in Chalk Farm, London.Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records, and he set up this new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Colosseum...

) and partly due to the track having been available on the album for two years.

Track listing

1. "Lively Arts" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Gray) - 3:57
2. "Teenage Dream" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward
   Algy Ward
   Alasdair Mackie "Algy" Ward is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.-Biography:He was first active as a member of the Australian punk band The Saints before joining British group The Damned and playing on Machine Gun Etiquette...
   
   ) - 2:36

Bonus Track on 10"/12" single: -

1. "I'm So Bored" (Scabies, Sensible, Vanian, Ward) - 1:17

Production credits

• Producer
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  s:
  • The Damned

• Musician
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• • Dave Vanian: Vocals
  • Captain Sensible
    Captain Sensible
    Captain Sensible is a singer, songwriter, guitarist who grew up in Croydon, England, and co-founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an alternative pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image...
    
    : Guitar
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  • Rat Scabies
    Rat Scabies
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    : Drum
    Drum
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  • Paul Gray: Bass
    Bass guitar
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     on "Lively Arts"
  • Algy Ward
    Algy Ward
    Alasdair Mackie "Algy" Ward is an English rock and roll bass guitarist and singer.-Biography:He was first active as a member of the Australian punk band The Saints before joining British group The Damned and playing on Machine Gun Etiquette...
    
    : Bass
    Bass guitar
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    on "Teenage Dream" and "I'm So Bored"