Test Patterns for Living was the first release, an EP

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, by the Toronto

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-based New Wave band Blue Peter

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. Released in 1979

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, it included the single "Factory Living" , which helped the band get their first radio airplay on CFNY. The song "Same Old Place", later appeared on the compilation album, The Best of Ready Volume 1 :: 20th Century Masters — The Millennium Collection, and in 2009 was included on the soundtrack

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  for the vampire

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/rock and roll

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 movie Suck

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; the latter event led to Blue Peter performing in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival

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 at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, for the film's premiere.

Personnel

• Paul Humphrey - vocals, keyboards
• Geoff McOuat - bass
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• Ron Tomlinson - drums
• Chris Wardman
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   - guitar
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Track listing

All songs on the album were written by Chris Wardman, unless otherwise noted:

Side A

1. "Same Old Place" 3:08

2. "Out With the Boys" 3:03 (Humphrey)

3. "Living in the Eighties" 2:17

4. "Time and Money" 2:10

Side B

6. "Do the Robot" 3:29

7. "Cloak and Dagger" 3:45

8. "Factory Living" 2:48

Re-issue

In 2007, Test Patterns for Living was re-issued by Universal Music Canada on compact disc

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, combined with Radio Silence

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, Blue Peter's first full-length album

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, from 1980. Test Patterns for Living appeared as bonus tracks on the Radio Silence re-issue in the same order as on the original release.