Testcards in Rock
Seeing as how this has come up (swift thinking blissblogger...), I've dug out a copy of it. Described on the back as "Six instrumentals in praise and celebration of mid-morning television made and played by Stuart Moxham and Phillip Moxham", even more than the "Final Day" 7" or the "Colossal Youth" LP it's a bonafide slice of British Proto-Nerdtronica (see also Joe Meek) because of course the boys have been abandoned by Alison Statton. Her work with Weekend gets pretty short shrift (cos of their connection to the Wag Club Indie Soul Boy scene) but check out "Drumbeat for Babies" (slsk massive get busy) -that's a monster track. I was interested to see generally maligned individual Gilles Peterson making sense of the post-punk revival in some chart or other by giving some early Weekend stuff the thumbs up.
And (doh!) nearly forgot this, which came up very recently here. Jon Dale mentioned in an email to me that his "mum says I used to sit and watch testcards for ages as a kid" and I wonder if that wasn't as much to do with the drone accompanying the Test card (Dale's tastes are well documented). Sweet Exorxist made the connection between the Test tone and the bleep, with the visual dimension an ancillary factor for Jarvis Cocker to peg a pop promo onto.