Mark Stewart (musician)

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Mark Stewart is a British musician, front man and singer with Mark Stewart & The Maffia and a founding member of The Pop Group . Most of his releases appeared under the label of the musician collective On-U Sound Records and on Mute Records . These labels were distributed by Rough Trade . With both bands he shaped the so-called Bristol Sound and more progressive variants of post-punk across Europe and in Japan.

Musical development

Raised in Bristol , he attended private school in the same year as Nick Sheppard . In 1978 he founded the band The Pop Group, which was known for its political commitment. A rumor has it that a member of the band was expelled for not wanting to take part in a demonstration. So the song titles and lyrics of the band can be assigned politically to the socialist camp (“Capitalism is the most barbaric of all religions”). In 1981 the band separated and Mark Stewart moved to London , where he found shelter on On-U , the newly founded label Adrian Sherwoods , and sang alongside Ari Up ( The Slits ) with the New Age Steppers . Other band members were Neneh Cherry ( Rip, Rig + Panic ), Bim Sherman , Steve Beresford and Bruce Smith. His solo albums, which were heavily influenced by industrial , were recorded with the participation of members of the backing bands of Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash , Doug Wimbish , Skip McDonald and drummer Keith LeBlanc . The same line-up played as a tackhead without a Mark Stewart record. On-U became the melting pot of the British post- punk scene, where punks , Rastafarian , free jazz and hip-hop musicians found a progressive home.

Musical collaborations

There were collaborations with the Last Poets , Trent Reznor from the Nine Inch Nails , Tricky , Massive Attack , the Chicks on Speed , Adult and Primal Scream . Under the title Kiss the Future , a compilation was released as best-of (see compilation ) on Soul Jazz Records in 2005 . He currently lives in Berlin, Vienna, Portland and Dorset. It is still particularly well-known in many European countries and in Japan. The album Learning to Cope with Cowardice can be found in the legendary list of albums from The Wire's musical subcultures "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening)" .

Discography

With The Pop Group

LP / CD

  • Y (April 1979, Radar Records; re-released on CD / Radar, 1996 and Rhino Records, 2007)
  • For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (March 1980, Rough Trade Records - including E pluribus unum , a collaboration with The Last Poets)
  • We Are Time (December 1980, Rough Trade semi-bootleg compilation of live tracks, demos and studio releases)
  • We Are All Prostitutes (Retrospective, 1998, Radar Records)
  • Idealists In Distress from Bristol (Official Bootleg, Sampler, 2007, Vinyl Japan, double CD, only released in Japan)

Singles

  • "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" / "3.38" (March 1979, Radar Records)
  • "We Are All Prostitutes" / "Amnesty International Report" (October 1979, Rough Trade Records)
  • "Where There's A Will There's A Way" (March 1980, Rough Trade; split single with The Slits: "In the Beginning There Was Rhythm")

With the New Age Steppers LP / CD

  • New Age Steppers (1980) On-U

With The Maffia as Mark Stewart & The Maffia

LP / CD / DVD

  • Learning to Cope With Cowardice (1983) On-U
  • As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade (1985) On-U
  • Mark Stewart (1987) Mute
  • Metatron (1990) Mute
  • Control Data (1996) Mute
  • Kiss The Future (2005) Soul Jazz Records
  • Edit (2008) Crippled Dick Hot Wax
  • Mark Stewart - On / Off (2011): Pop Group to Maffia (Töni Schifer)
  • The Politics of Envy (2012) Future Noise Music

Singles

  • "Who's Hot" (1982) Y
  • "Jerusalem EP" (1982) On-U
  • "Hypnotized" (1985) Mute (# 9 UK Indie Charts )
  • "Tackhead" (1986) Mute (# 31)
  • "This Is Stranger Than Love" (1987) Mute (# 7)
  • "Hysteria" (1990) Mute
  • "Dream Kitchen" (1996) Mute
  • "Consumed - The Remix Wars" (1998) Mute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rtxarchive.com/archive/articles/wire175.html ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Wire list
  2. ↑ [1] Trailer on Youtube.com

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personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, front man and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century