Mark Stewart

A trailer featuring a text by Mark Stewart for ‘Bristol Music: Seven Decades of Sound’, a new exhibition on the history of the Bristol music scene put together by M Shed (Bristol Museums) & 2 Degrees West:

‘The scene since the late 1950s has been nothing but eclectic. Artists from Acker Bilk, The Pop Group and The Wurzels to Rita Lynch, Way out West and This is the Kit, are just a handful of acts that hail from our harbourside city. Bristol Music: Seven decades of sound will take stories told by people all over the city to celebrate and debate Bristol music.’

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Mark Stewart remix of new collective Dismembered Sound Booth & their track ‘G4S’, about everyone’s favourite government contracted private security firm

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A recently unearthed video of Mark Stewart & The Maffia
Live in Lausanne, Switzerland 1986
Performing We Are All Prostitutes

Featuring Doug Wimbish & Steve Beresford!

'Moreover, Mark Stewart of The Pop Group’s spoken-word contributions to the searing ‘Fight Fire With Fire’ (styled by Nicola as ‘dystopian afrobeat’) steers the album to new pinnacles of intensity informed by science fiction yet with explicitly political force.'

Mark Stewart features on 'Thuban', the new record by Lay Llamas out on June 15 via Rocket Recordings.

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The fifth anniversary of 'The Exorcism of Envy', released December 2012

Featuring kenneth anger, Richard Hell, Primal Scream, Lee Scratch Perry, The Raincoats’ Gina Birch, The Slits bassist Tessa Pollitt, Massive Attack’s Daddy G, Factory Floor, original PIL guitarist Keith Levene and former The Jesus And Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart

Mark Stewart has contributed to the new record by Little Axe (The Sugarhill Gang / tackhead / African Head Charge) entitled 'London Blues' and out now on Echo Beach. The usual suspects, Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), Keith LeBlanc, Perry Melius (African Head Charge) and Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound Records) also feature.

The title track is now being premiered courtesy of Soulguru, listen HERE

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Thirty years since the release of Mark's self titled LP from 1987 on Mute Records. Produced by Mark Stewart & Adrian Sherwood.

'Mark Stewart is one of the last true originals. An artist who never ever compromised. An authentic performer and a restless creator, then and now...This album is a damn compelling example of the man’s insatiable hunger for sonic experiment and his constant investigation of humankind’s raison d’être. Ingenious triumph.'

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The Best of Mark Stewart's collaborations with Adrian Sherwood in one playlist

Strange times. Kanye West was spotted wearing a Boot Boyz Biz bootleg tee inspired by The Pop Group & Mark Stewart.

Mark Stewart Official 'Politics of Envy' T-Shirt is available HERE.
The Pop Group Official 'She Is Beyond Good & Evil' T-Shirt and other Pop Group tees are available HERE.

Mark Stewart on dub & the abiding innovation of Adrian Sherwood & On-U Sound Records in a new mini-documentary also featuring Adrian, Skip McDonald & Ghetto Priest

Mark Stewart has contributed to a limited edition book 'My Top Tens'. Designed and published by The Designers Republic (known for iconic album artwork by Aphex Twin, Autechre and other works for Warp Records) in collaboration with Evolution Print Sheffield

Clint Mansell, Neville Brody, Trevor Jackson and many more also feature.

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'Friendly as a handgrenade'

A rare recently unearthed recording. Thanks to Frankie Mear for sharing.