Mark Stewart

A Very British Coup finally on limited 12" coloured vinyl!

'Soaring Bowie Blackstar-esque vocal lines' Gigwise

'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

'The bass don pulls together his own post - punk avengers for this anti-Brexit anthem and it’s a riot' Q Magazine

To coincide with Britain’s impending departure from the European Union, Jah Wobble is set to release a new three track single on Cadiz Music licensed exclusively from the Youth Sounds label on Friday the 30th of August 2019.

A truly inspired collaboration of post-punk innovators, ‘A Very British Coup’ was recorded with renowned producer Martin 'Youth' Glover (Killing Joke: Official) and features the legendary bassist’s former Public Image Ltd band mates Richard Dudanski on drums and guitarist Keith Levene together with lead vocals from Pop Group frontman Mark Stewart, additional bass / keyboards from Youth, Charlie Wardle on Chinese harp and loops from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh.

Released on limited 12” coloured vinyl and available digitally at all the usual outlets, the new song is Wobble and company’s brilliant take on the farce of the long drawn out turmoil of the Brexit situation in the UK and also features a Dogma instrumental dub mix.

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Mark Stewart has contributed this type-based submission to an exhibition of new work marking the 200 year anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre

Craig Oldham, James Cauty, Extinction Rebellion, film director Mike Leigh & more besides also feature

Running from Friday 9 August 2019 to Sunday 8 September 2019 at the People's History Museum

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Beyond excited to announce the 40th anniversary reissue of The Pop Group's debut album 'Y' through Mute Records on 1st November 2019

'Y' has been remastered & cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios

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- Landmark single 'She Is Beyond Good & Evil' on 12"
- 10-track album of rare & unreleased material 'Alien Blood'
- previously unreleased album 'Y Live'

40th Anniversary Editions
Limited Super Deluxe 4 x Inca Gold Vinyl - Signed
Limited Deluxe 4 x Black 180g Vinyl
3 x CD

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Y Vinyl + 12”
CD
Cassette

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Listen to the remastered version of ‘She Is Beyond Good & Evil’, available digitally now

Watch me & Gareth perform 'Savage Sea' at this year’s Sea Change Festival

Mark Stewart will be appearing at the Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival for a 10th anniversary screening of "ON | OFF" + Q&A with director Tøni Schifer & author / DJ legend Dave Haslam. Afters will be a DJ set at Ramsgate Music Hall helmed by Mark Stewart & Ben Millar

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'"ON | OFF" mixes archive material, live footage & interviews to give an insight into one of music’s true pioneers.

Followed by a Q&A with Mark Stewart, director Toni Schifer and author/DJ Dave Haslam, and “ON/OFF/AFTER” party at the Ramsgate Music Hall.

The Palace Cinema Broadstairs - Friday 14th June, 8:30pm'

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This is the new style...No sleep till Bristol.

'A one-of-a-kind mix, which turns into a sonic rollercoaster full of dub, psychedelia, surrealism and noise.'

Mark Stewart in the mix for secretthirteen, featuring Burroughs, Max Ernst, On-U, Russell Haswell, Puce Mary +++

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Your favorite motto:: "dont explain your philosophy. embody it." Ἐπίκτητος

theQ x Mark Stewart

A personality questionnaire with Mark Stewart by Thierry Massard's theQ platform
Based on the same one taken by Marcel Proust at the end of the 19th century

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'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 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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