Mark Stewart

Thuban the new record by Lay Llamas featuring Mark Stewart is out now on Rocket Recordings

LISTEN to the 'dystopian afrobeat' of 'Fight Fire With Fire' featuring Mark's spoken word contributions

Praise for 'Fight Fire With Fire':

"Mark Stewart's (Pop Group) narration of a futuristic world devoid of humanity is literally neurotic. Human freaks proliferate from the ashes of corporate greed, political malfeasance and biological manipulation. Like Trump's inner circle, or Italy's Lega Party. Sci-fi doesn't displace our contemporary world. It reflects on its more negative trends." Soundblab Alternative Music

"‘Fight Fire With Fire’ takes the album is somewhat of a different direction with a spoken word from the Pop Group’s Mark Stewart. This dystopian track develops science fiction-style narrative making political points about a world where human of genetic variance are pitched again each other. It is intense and sinister… you really need to listen to it to understand the full drama here." Psych Insight Music

"‘Fight Fire With Fire’, featuring the dystopian hued spoken-word courtesy of Mark Stewart, hangs suspended in a sea of glitchy reverberations and pulsing electronic atmospherics. Crawling feedback laden frequencies pull repetitive percussion and throbbing lines of melodic bass into the mix, instantly injecting structure and clarity into proceedings. This is addictive, brilliantly produced and another album highlight" Primal Music Blog

Mark Stewart features on 'Chimera', 'Forever Now', 'Information Medicine' & 'Soft Paranoia', a brace of new tracks taken from 'Sick For Songs A Season Eats', the debut album by Mike Textbeak

Produced by John Fryer (This Mortal Coil, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Fad Gadget)

'Sick For Songs A Season Eats' also features Janine Rainforth (Maximum Joy), Peter Hope (Hoodoo Talk w/ Richard H. Kirk), Yvette Winkler (Vaselyne), Searmanas, Android (Missile Command), Tim Smith (Lestat) & Bestial Mouths

LISTEN to 'Blood Storm'

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Released June 28th

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.