The Pop Group

‘This is a warning...’

'War Inc' - the new single by The Pop Group produced by Hank Shocklee

All download proceeds of the new single will be donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) to help with the incredible work they do in war zones throughout the world. In 2015 they provided over a million consultations across war torn regions of Asia and Africa, and also provide nutrition and psychological help to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable, innocent civilians.

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A genius and a huge inspiration. Mark’s friends, comrades, and Goldsmiths and Repeater colleagues have set up a collection to raise money for Mark's wife and son, in the hope that it will allow them space to grieve and come to terms with their loss, and to reduce the number of things they have to deal with at this devastating time. If you would like to contribute in Mark's honour, please do so here.

Read Simon Reynolds on Mark's work in The Guardian
Read Juliet Jacques Memoriam for Verso Books
Read Guy Mankowski on Mark, Neoliberalism & The Hall of Mirrors in 3am Magazine

An antidote to January Blues
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The official video for Little Town, the second single to emerge from Honeymoon On Mars, directed by Douglas Hart.

'The video attempts to capture the feel of towns beyond the big metropolises…towns that suffer most from the brutal post capital culture we live in now' Douglas Hart

'Doug has documented Cruel Britannia, the hidden truly frightening little Britain. Perhaps the real battle for Britain has truly begun' Mark Stewart

In the hands of Hart – former Jesus & Mary Chain bassist come revered music video auteur for the likes of My Bloody Valentine, The Horrors and Primal Scream – Little Town becomes a subversive montage of oppressive urban landscapes and street level scenes, given a series of chromatic tints that visualize the track’s restless progress. As a graphic patchwork of prosaic locations gradually comes offset by the itinerate urban patrols of Mark Stewart and Gareth Sager, the parades of power and the machinery of surveillance eventually present themselves, revealing the sinister system that pulls the strings and lurks beneath the surface.

& Mark Stewart reveals his top ten long players of 2016, from Autechre to New Orleans Funk.

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Gareth spoke to Noel Watson for his Places & Spaces Bristol special show on NTS Radio. Accompanied by a few choice Pop Group selections.

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'Do think there’s been a big progression from Citizen Zombie, which just came out last year?'

‘I love that record. It was full-on and mental, and it’s a head fuck. But [Honeymoon on Mars], with the lyrics and the whole dystopia and sci-fi feel of it, I’ve just got real hope. We’ve got to try and reclaim the future.’

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(Photo by Maiken Kildegaard)

'It was an honour to be able to work on the music of a band that meant so much in my life'
Not Waving

One of the more prominent personalities to emerge on Powell’s Diagonal Records, Alessio Natalizia aka Not Waving has produced a relentless acid refix of The Pop Group’s first single ‘Zipperface’ from their new album ‘Honeymoon On Mars’

Not Waving completes a trilogy of Pop Group remixes after contributions from Hanz and Goth-Trad. Like Hanz and Goth-Trad it comes from a place of enduring respect for The Pop Group’s daring experimentalism. Yet unlike the efforts of Hanz and G-T, Zipperface isn’t led into shadowy echo chambers or sub-bass assault but carved up and weaponised into a barrage of convulsive computer glitch, muscular EBM and thuggish acid.

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‘It’s up to us to try and fight for something to make the future a little bit better’

Mark was asked about How To Make Music That Matters for Mary Anne Hobbs’ 6 Music show.

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‘I am always accused of writing six songs inside one song’
Some gear porn from Gareth on Drowned in Sound

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