Mark will be heading to The British Library for an evening talk with Melissa Chemam, Miranda Sawyer, Inkie & Mad Professor on March 14th
Discussing Out of the Comfort Zone, the new book on Massive Attack & Bristol by Melissa Chemam
'If you’ve never heard Learning to Cope with Cowardice, it is a collection of sounds that wraps your nervous system around the spools of a cassette deck, then uses your brain to degauss the tape head and your cerebrospinal fluid to lubricate the capstan...In the film, Stewart and producer Adrian Sherwood describe the mixing and editing techniques they used to make this mental work of art, some imported from New York hip-hop and other audio collage forms and some invented on the spot and probably never yet repeated'
A short film on the making of ‘Learning to Cope with Cowardice’
A Dangerous Minds Premiere
Special thanks to Charlie Marbles
'I continue to experiment and try to communicate important ideas'
For the Portugese comrades
Mark Stewart in conversation with Rui Miguel Abreu for Rimas E Batidas
Mark Stewart selects 'music which has the potential to inspire the disenchanted & encourage resistance' for Ransom Note in his contribution to their 8 Tracks series
Featuring Radical riddims, street funk, protest rap & much more
With John Holt, James Brown, The Last Poets & other selections
A new track from a forthcoming album by Mark Stewart. Laser-beam synth and cosmic italo backing vox glide over depth charge dubbed to oblivion snare hits and a Stewart vocal in the manner of a distorted chansonnier. Redolent of his solo projects and his classic work with The Pop Group and New Age Steppers.
Stewart comments: “For my first new solo release in seven years it’s an honour to be on our Pay It All Back series. Big up Sherwoody! The circle remains unbroken”
Mark recently appeared on the Back To The Phuture show on Soho Radio helmed by Mark Jones
Featuring stories of The Pop Group, The Maffia, Bristol & the soundtrack of his life including music by The Clash, Nico, Lucio Battisti, War, David Bowie, Cockney Rebel & many more.
Mark Stewart features on 'A Very British Coup' the new single by Jah Wobble alongside Richard Dudanski & Keith Levene (all comrades formerly of PiL), a collaboration produced by Martin 'Youth' Glover
'A Very British Coup' will be released to coincide with Britain’s official departure from the European Union on 29th March 2019 along with a forthcoming remix by Andrew Weatherall
'Wobble’s booming dub bass and Levene’s classic guitar skree sounding like a 21st century ‘Metal Box’ - this is already one of the tracks of the year' John Robb / Louder Than War Magazine
'Soaring Bowie Blackstar-esque vocal lines' Gigwise
The definitive release of Mark Stewart's debut solo album Learning To Cope With Cowardice, including a new collection of unreleased material titled The Lost Tapes, is out now on Mute Records
Available as Limited Edition Clear Double Vinyl (Numbered Edition + Essay Booklet by Obselete Capitalism + Posters + Artwork Cards + Insert)
+ Black Double Vinyl (Vinyl Wrap Poster)
+ Double CD (Limited Edition Double Black CD + 16 page Booklet)
+ DL
'Moving, mind-mangling, amazing...sounds that still beckon from an unrealized future' Dangerous Minds
'Alarming, forceful music which gives the listener no choice but to pay attention...The Lost Tapes is at least as revolutionary as Stewart's groundbreaking first album, and just as essential' AllMusic
'Sherwood’s deep dub, matched with Stewart’s post-apocalyptic confrontational style made Learning to Cope with Cowardice sound like the tapes had been through a war… still sounds futuristic and alien today' Brooklyn Vegan
'An exercise in disorientation...in a more paranoid age Stewart sounds like the voice of reason' Uncut
'An astonishing debut...still sounds restless, exploratory, and revelatory. One of post-punk dub's finest moments' International Times
'An album that indelibly inspired me to bring my noise...ESSENTIAL' Kevin Martin aka The Bug
'Head above the heavens, feet below the hells, the singer Mark Stewart has embodied the international rebel spirit since he fronted the Pop Group as a teenager, giving voice to activist and imaginal concerns shared by punks, Rastas and b-boys. The sounds of Mark Stewart and the Maffia’s moving, mind-mangling, amazing debut album, 1983’s Learning to Cope with Cowardice, still beckon from an unrealized future...'
Mark discusses the definitive reissue of his solo debut album and the current historical moment with Oliver Hall at Dangerous Minds.
'If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear'
Marc Riley interviews Mark for the Manic Q&A series on his BBC Radio 6 Music show
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