Mark Stewart

'Everything in 'Favour' suggests a vast mental space where all that is solid has melted into air. The only landmarks are memories that vanish as soon as they surface, represented here by footage from Tøni Schifer’s documentary On/Off: Mark Stewart (Pop Group to Maffia). Perry and Stewart have processed these images from the singer’s life to resemble the “Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite” sequence of 2001.'

The new video for Favour, Mark Stewart's first solo release in seven years, now premiering at Dangerous Minds

Favour is taken from the new On-U Sound Records compilation 'Pay It All Back Vol. 7'

Thanx to Ruth Perry & Tøni Schifer

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Mark Stewart's strange world, four decades of fire theft, including the recently reissued 1983 album Learning To Cope With Cowardice

The definitive edition of Learning To Cope With Cowardice available now via Mute Records

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Mark Stewart will be involved in a collaboration with sound artist Matthew Shaw as a member of The Pop Group at this year's Sea Change festival. Check the full info below.

Liberté, égalité, publicité

The Pop Group x Matthew Shaw
Blood Money
An incendiary site specific ‘LIVE INSTALLATION’

High Cross House, Sea Change Festival, May 2019

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The new single by Jah Wobble featuring Richard Dudanski, Keith Levene & Mark Stewart on vocals

Produced by Martin 'Youth' Glover

Released to coincide with Britain’s official departure from the European Union

'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

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The new On-U Sound Records compilation Pay It All Back Vol. 7 is out now.

Featuring a contribution from Mark Stewart titled Favour.

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”

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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

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'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

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'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

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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

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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”

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For the Japanese comrades

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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.

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