The Pop Group Site guestbook 2000

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name: Edward
date: January 29, 2000 at 08:34:26 CST
email address: edward@manmart.demon.co.uk
from: Coppull/Lancashire/England
Says: I've only heard We're all Prostitutes on the "Punk and New Wave 1975-1979" compilation from Universal. That thing is scary! Other than that, I've heard part of "She is beyond good and evil" on a show where Nick Cave was talking about his influences. It was especially cool when he said that all the other bands at the gig where he saw them were like "being gangbanged by marshmallows"!
Spread the word man. The Pop Group are the best.

name: Dennis Dusenberg
date: February 1, 2000 at 21:17:51 CST
email address: dusenbass@cs.com
from: Musician, old punk rocker, fan of Pop Group, Slits, anything old school and cool. Gang of Four also rules.
Says: Kudos

name: Tim Woodhouse
date: February 2, 2000 at 13:46:33 CST
email address: tim@incur.freeserve.co.uk
from: London, England.
Says: I have a video recording of "We are all Prostitutes". It was shown as part of the "Music of the Millenium" series from Channel 4 T.V. here in the U.K.. This track was chosen by Nick Cave (of The Bad Seeds) as his song of the millenium.

It appears to be an audio of "We are all Prostitutes" with visual clips from the video for "She is Beyond Good and Evil" and has a commentary by Nick Cave.

If you like, I could send you a copy of it. -Tim.

name: filip
date: February 3, 2000 at 10:23:46 CST
email address: filip@axxes.be
from: belgium - antwerp
Says: Damned good stuff... I was born too late to enjoy it properly at the time...
Seen Mark Stewart once in Paradox (Antwerp)... Still enjoying it...
Most favorite LP: Learning to cope with cowardice !

name: filip
date: February 3, 2000 at 10:23:59 CST
email address: filip@axxes.be
from: belgium - antwerp
Says: Damned good stuff... I was born too late to enjoy it properly at the time...
Seen Mark Stewart once in Paradox (Antwerp)... Still enjoying it...
Most favorite LP: Learning to cope with cowardice !

name: ?
date: February 5, 2000 at 12:17:28 CST
email address: ?
from: ?
Says: Who the hell is this group they look shit and god get a really JOB!!!!!

name: steve shearsby
date: February 8, 2000 at 11:42:56 CST
email address: creativewest@earthlink.net
from: LA HELL
Says: Love you for being mad enough to do this. TPG rearranged my ears forever when I first heard them way back then. Its thrilling to think that inodd spots roynd the world (Texas!!!) rooms are still being emptied by that wondrfull noise.

name: Stevo
date: February 15, 2000 at 06:40:08 CST
email address: olende@Ireland.com
from: Galway, Ireland
Says: I have been listening to the POp Group for the last 17 years, i think i picked up Y on the same day that I bought Captain Beefheart's Lick My Decals off Baby at my local secondhand record store in Walthamstow London. It has one of the weirdest productions ever and was subsequently one of the greatest things to listen to while tripping. My other favourites for that purpose were Einsturzende Neubautens Zeichnungen der O.T. and Jefferson Airplane's 'After Bathing at Baxter's'.
They remain one band i regard as almost timeless, transcending the troughs that other people's take on punk fell into and remaining seminal.

name: Sean
date: February 27, 2000 at 03:31:53 CST
email address: Buzzorhowl@hotmail
from: Melbourne Australia
Says: Nice page, Pop group rule!!!!!! good to see someone is doing a page on them, informative and interesting stuff.

name: Ricardo Vieira
date: February 27, 2000 at 23:51:08 CST
email address: baohomet@mtecnetsp.com.br
from: Sao Paulo - Brazil
Says: I`ve finally sent front and back covers of "mona mona" to you (another e-mail address...)
Is it possible for you to post to the site a mp3 file of "kiss the book"...it is very difficult to find "we are time" LP/CD...Thanks!!

name: techno@rock.com
date: February 28, 2000 at 22:41:07 CST
email address:
from: Japan
Says: Hello!
Your homepage is great!!
I'm from Japan. And I have a Japanese web page of the Pop Group.
Please check it!
http://nishisu.hoops.ne.jp/popgroup/
or
http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~nishisu/popgroup/

name: Pablo Picasshole
date: March 3, 2000 at 10:53:04 CST
email address: field_eh@hotmail.com
from: Calgary, Alberta (Canaduh)
Says: Hey there. Just wanted to stop in and say "hi", and beg and plead for you to go to our webpage (http://www.secondfloordaycare.com). Also, if you have the time, vote for our song "Malicious Hotdog" at http://www.the-battle.com or we'll weep like pathetic little schoolchildren. Thanks.

name: Tina Carlotte
date: March 5, 2000 at 11:41:27 CST
email address: od-fors@frisurf.no
from: Norway
Says: I love A1 They are so cool and i hope that i could meat them some time

name: ethel
date: March 6, 2000 at 04:23:56 CST
email address: big-ethel@usa.net
from: philippines
Says: i love reggae music and i want to know more 'bout it!

name: BENJAMIN MATSAS
date: March 6, 2000 at 17:27:33 CST
email address: eek@ath.forthnet.gr
from: GREECE
Says: NOTHING SHORT OV A TOTAL WAR!

name: ejoy
date: March 7, 2000 at 01:11:15 CST
email address: ejoy86@hotmail.com
from: malaysia
Says: kerana seronok

name: Luke Borley
date: March 8, 2000 at 21:16:46 CST
email address: Porca_Dio@hotmail.com
from: England
Says: Only that, quite obviously, I think they were good.

name: Luke Borley
date: March 8, 2000 at 21:30:38 CST
email address: Porca_Dio@hotmail.com
from: England
Says: I'm working on some bass / guitar tab for 'Y' at the
moment (it's the only Pop Group LP I have). Let me
know if you'd be interested in posting them up, or
whatever. Obviously, though, they'll only be vague
outlines because most of the songs go all over the place
('Snow Girl') and I am a very slothful creature.

name: Sicoff
date: March 22, 2000 at 21:38:51 CST
email address: sicoff@ihug.co.nz
from: New zealand
Says: Isn't it great when out of the blue life throws you a curve ball!

I popped in to Auckland's best second hand record store
(Real Groovy Records) for a look at their new sales stuff, and
not only do I find a CD copy of the Slits "Cut" CD but also
The Pop Groups "Y" on CD...! both for only $NZ40 (about 13 pounds)
Flabbergasted not! Euphoric indeed!

name: Tiana Milner
date: March 28, 2000 at 00:00:59 CST
email address: milnerfamily@inspire.net.nz
from: New Zealand
Says:

They are really great when are they coming to New Zealand?

name: David Livingstone
date: March 31, 2000 at 01:32:08 CST
email address: intvirus@earthlink.net
from: Dee-Troit crack city
Says: Very cool to see this page-one of the world's most underappreciated bands. I'll never forget the first time I spun Y for the first time (20 friggin' years ago!)...instant YES.

Oh, and speaking of Y...my copies of it and HOW MUCH LONGER were both stolen some years back...so if anyone's in a selling mood (or wants to cut a deal for minidiscs of either...)

name: carly foster
date: April 13, 2000 at 15:52:56 CST
email address: kylefoster.freenet.com.uk
from: britain
Says: i love five

name: Erin salisbury
date: April 15, 2000 at 04:28:10 CST
email address: colinsalisbury@ic.24.net
from: LONDON
Says:

name: Erin salisbury
date: April 15, 2000 at 04:47:35 CST
email address: colinsalisbury@ic.24.net
from: LONDON
Says: TO steps I really like your songs your the best group in the world.Can
you send me sighend photos from you all please.I am 8 years old.Love from
Erin salisbury.
My Address IS 52 Hearnville Rd S W 12 8RR london

name: Alan Harriman
date: April 16, 2000 at 19:34:25 CST
email address: aharrim@attglobal.net
from: UK - Leeds
Says: Brilliant site - thanks! Good to know that others out there remember this great band too.

name: Richard
date: April 21, 2000 at 11:31:00 CST
email address: richard@cxny.com
from: NYC
Says: I grew up in SW England near Bristol and saw The Pop Group many times in the late 70's. They would play at free outdoor festivals in the summer and always had the most incredible energy, giving everything they had and ending up exauhsted.
Thanks so much for this excelent site it is really bringing back some memories! I just looked at some of the gig ads, and I remember going to the Gig at London Union w/ Scritti Politti and DAF- unbelievable! Between sets was a reggae sound-system which by itself would have been a great evening. Add to that the debut of DAF from Germany playing "out" electronic music, Scritti playing their cool improvised mix and then the Pop Group going nuts for 90 minutes it blew my Mushroom induced mind for several days! Anyone else go to that gig? - drop me a note.
In fact I dropped out of Reading University where I had been going for a semester and moved to NYC with my American Girlfriend. I've lived here ever since but have followed the Bristol scene very closely.
Some comments on the early records, "Y" I consider to be, especially with 20 years of perspective, the finest artifact from the entire UK scene, largley due to the incredible production values of Denice "Blackbeard" Bovell who also did the Slits album. Mark Stewarts' work with Adrian Sherwood has always been amazing.
Got to go but thanks I'll check back often. Richard C. April 21 2000 NYC

name: Johan
date: April 27, 2000 at 05:47:16 CST
email address: Aleluhia@dolfijn.nl
from: nederan op aarde
Says: were ar the symbols

name: Michael panontin
date: May 1, 2000 at 17:15:26 CST
email address: panots@dotexpress.com
from: toronto
Says: Do you know that there is a cover version of Thief of Fire on the Good Missionaries album called Fire from Heaven. Mark Stewart is on vocals and another member is on it as well. (Sorry but I don't have the album with me at work where my e-mail is, so I can't give you more detailed information.)

name: Nikk Mayer
date: May 4, 2000 at 09:31:20 CST
email address:
from: London, England
Says: Excellent site - it's not that suprising that it's fallen to someone from the States to document the Pop Group as they are all but forgotten over here, & their influence on loads of people & bands often goes unaknowledged. After punk became pretty blockheaded, the Pop Group were a revelation & inspired loads of people I know (& knew) to make music & get more politically sussed. I can't imagine growing up without their influence. Keep up the good work.
Nikk.

name: DEEL1
date: May 12, 2000 at 06:16:56 CST
email address: martijndelissen@hotmail.com
from: zoetermeer, netherlands
Says: PLease Let mE know where i can buy or order pop group records/cd's
What label are they from?

Nice knowin' somebody knows the Pop Group

name: somebody
date: May 12, 2000 at 06:18:07 CST
email address: rinivanleeuwen@wxs.nl
from: somewhere
Says:

name: Simon Coffey
date: May 16, 2000 at 02:52:08 CST
email address: sicoff@ihug.co.nz
from: New Zealand
Says: I see a copy oy of the Mona Mona CD
sold for $40 US on ebay. I went up to
$25 but then bailed.

I was thinking of designing myself a Pop
Group T-shirt, anyone interested in one
(at cost price)

A friend of mine is going to tape the
New age steppers - Action Battlefield
LP for me, lookin' forward to it

name: Noel Harmonson
date: May 20, 2000 at 01:55:37 CST
email address: dimensions_ack@yahoo.com
from: Santa Cruz, Ca
Says: Thank god for the Pop Group.

name: Heavy Panther
date: May 20, 2000 at 13:12:28 CST
email address: heavy_panther@hotmail.com
from: Canada
Says: www.musicselection.com is an importer who got me Y on CD. They also have We Are All Prostitutes.

name: Mary Monaghan
date: May 23, 2000 at 16:02:44 CST
email address: Mike7@esat.clear
from: Ireland
Says: Steps are so cool i love them so much !!!!!

name: Lu Borley
date: May 23, 2000 at 18:57:31 CST
email address: Porca_Dio@hotmail.com
from: England's green and pleasant sand
Says:

As tentatively promised...



'We Are Time'

The Pop Group



Welded to font by Lu Borley

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this from memory and I've been listening to Television's 'Marquee Moon'

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Ah, well... the next TAB will be better, I promise.

name: daren
date: May 25, 2000 at 12:45:02 CST
email address: daren@walkways.globalnet.co.uk
from: walsall, west midlands
Says: Hi, I'm desperately trying to get my hands on original 'We Are All Prostitutes' (Thatcher flicking the V's) and/or 'Veneer of Democracy Starts To Fade' t-shirts.

Can anyone help?

Just to say, I'm really pleased to have finally found a Pop Group site, after being a huge follower for over 10 years (thank you bIG*fLAME!!)

Cheers

daren

name: malin
date: June 11, 2000 at 10:02:04 CST
email address:
from: norway
Says: You suck!

name: Delissen
date: June 12, 2000 at 18:00:37 CST
email address: martijndelissen@hotmail.com
from: Zoetermeer(=sweetlakecity), Netherlands
Says: Yes, there is

well here it comes...

A couple of months ago i listened to a pop group lp, from an old anarchists relative of mine. Very, very good, i should say. I started searching for more music and what did i see, find or hear: nothing.

No record shop in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, nor Den Hague could help me out.

"No sir, we can't get that stuff anymore, it is very difficult to find." they said to me.

So i started sniffing on the internet-sites and, you don't need to gues, here i am.

I realy hope you can help me out on my quest, my friend

If you can i'll be true till the end.

Greetings from a 2:4 room with a view on nothing,

Delissen, alias 'DEEL1"

name: RAY NAINE
date: June 15, 2000 at 15:21:10 CST
email address:
from: LONDON, CHATHAM & WEYMOUTH
Says: WHAT A GREAT BAND THEY WERE

name: Howard Stelzer
date: June 18, 2000 at 10:44:28 CST
email address: intransitive@visionload.com
from: Cambridge, MA. USA
Says: Great to finally find info abot the Pop Group on the web! Yours is an excellent site. I think something's wrong with your mp3s, though. I wasn't able to download any of them.

name: Howard Stelzer
date: June 18, 2000 at 10:44:38 CST
email address: intransitive@visionload.com
from: Cambridge, MA. USA
Says: Great to finally find info abot the Pop Group on the web! Yours is an excellent site. I think something's wrong with your mp3s, though. I wasn't able to download any of them.

name: terje
date: June 19, 2000 at 21:09:46 CST
email address: dokland@ima.org.sg
from: Singapore
Says: I remember The Pop Group from my teenage years in Norway -- it was
some of the most amazing music I had heard (together with
Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire and This Heat).
Have tried to find their CDs for the last number of years, without
success. Nobody seems to have even heard about them. I wonder if
they are available through some web site? Glad to see from your web
page that I am not the only person in the world who knows about them.
Now if I could only get hold of those CDs...

name: diane coulbourn
date: June 22, 2000 at 05:55:10 CST
email address: dcoulbourn@optusnet.com.au
from: australia
Says:

name: Stevo
date: July 3, 2000 at 09:45:18 CST
email address: olende@ireland.com
from: Galway , ireland
Says: Hi.
Just wanted to ask a question that was always on my mind concerning the bristol crew. That is what was the source of the name? i have friends who swear it was complete deference to Iggy. Me I doubt it.
Having seen Repo man and yeah i do know that they predate that film. but it just was a ku like clue seeing all the cans on the shelves labelled 'food' in the supermarket scene in that movie and knowing that the band were from the political viewpoint that they were from(situationism?).
I'm just left with the idea that the name was a comment on the inter replaceability of most bands before them. Any comments?

name: Gareth Buckell
date: July 8, 2000 at 09:15:50 CST
email address: Gareth@buckell26.freeserve.co.uk
from:
Says: Hey there,

Still trying to get hold of 'Y' and 'We Are Time' on any format possible - any offers?

And are there any mailing lists I can join to get info about Mark Stewart's solo career? I really want to see him live, but finding any info on him is like the old needle/haystack cliche ...

name: Mike Fornatale
date: July 12, 2000 at 14:16:07 CST
email address: sknoof@aol.com
from: New Joisey USA
Says: ....well, THIS is nice!! I was working at a large record store in NJ in the summer of 1979....when "Y" came in, we played it nonstop for several days. It was worth a customer's life to try to leave the store without buying a copy. "High Fidelity" had nothing on us.

Great to see someone so devoted to The Pop Group. Keep it up! In my own personal pantheon of "darker" musics, they are second only to The Monks.

http://portfolio.fdu.edu/wsc/fornatale

name: GB
date: July 17, 2000 at 07:26:23 CST
email address: Gareth@buckell26.freeserve.co.uk
from: England
Says: Can anyone give me bass tabs for any of the songs from 'For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder'? Especially 'Feed the Hungry' and 'Blind Faith'.

Mail Gareth@buckell26.freeserve.co.uk

Thanks!

name: Benjamin C.
date: July 23, 2000 at 22:04:42 CST
email address:
from: melbourne,australia
Says: I don't know what I can say that has not been said a hundred times already in this book, but I must sing praise in harmony that it's a wonderful thing that you have made all this information about one of the most underrated and alusive bands ever readily available to people. It's also great to see (looking over this guestbook) that people from here have put their two cents in on the affect of The Pop Group locally with groups like The Birthday Party, etc. As far as modern group references, a lot of what The Pop Group were doing ahead of there time and what they were about seems to rear its inspirational head in another newer melbourne group, The Vivian Girls (especially in their rhythm section), with the combination of highly strung no wave sounds and synthesizers (sorry, i do not know of any website i can link you to about the vivian girls, but they have an album out i've seen selling in the missing link store. They play here pretty frequently and it amazes me that there are young groups popping up out of the somewhat on existent punk scene like this that grasp and manipulate the sounds of The Pop Group and much of what was happening through Rough Trade and in post-punk in general. It's great - The Pop Group's influence is as powerful as ever today. Once again, it's obvious that your work on this site is much appreciated - thank you.

name: Nishisu, Koichi
date: July 29, 2000 at 09:55:18 CST
email address: nishisu@par.odn.ne.jp
from: Japan
Says: Hello.
I have a Pop Group's discography website.
It is a Japanese homepage, but check it.
There is 4 bootlegs.
Thanks!

name: Nishisu, Koichi
date: July 29, 2000 at 09:55:53 CST
email address: nishisu@par.odn.ne.jp
from: Japan
Says: Hello.
I have a Pop Group's discography website.
It is a Japanese homepage, but check it.
There is 4 bootlegs.
Thanks!

http://nishisu.hoops.ne.jp/popgroup/index.html

name: Alan Holmes
date: August 6, 2000 at 13:21:53 CST
email address: alan@centralslate.omnia.co.uk
from: Wales
Says: I saw The Pop Group in Liverpool Eric's in December 1979 (Dec 1st maybe ?) and it was certainly a contender for the best gig I've ever been to. Support was by Delta 5 who were pretty cool too. I was buzzing for days afterwards and in fact was inspired to form a group myself the next week. I went back to see them a few months later (without Mark Stewart and supported by The Raincoats) and they were nowhere near as good but by no means bad either.

name: Michael
date: August 9, 2000 at 15:21:53 CST
email address: michaelharmsworth@yahoo.com
from: England
Says: 1 - Thanks for rekindling great memories: the time when The Pop Group were playing live was for me the greatest time of my musical life. I can't remember how many times I actually saw them, but it was quite a few. I'd love to have seen Beefheart and Can, but, between them, The Pop Group and This Heat, sent this monkey to heaven.

2 - I'm slightly surprised at the lack of reference to This Heat. They were contemporaries of The Pop group if not mates, and both, in slightly different ways, were awesome live. If anyone knows of a This Heat site please let me know.

3- Thank you for keeping the name alive.

name: Brya Haase
date: August 20, 2000 at 12:52:46 CST
email address: bryan@ImportCDS.com
from: Plano, Texas
Says: The Pop Group said what they thought. Never mixing words! In your face never sounded so good!

name: Larry
date: August 24, 2000 at 22:00:13 CST
email address: Irvine1@freeserve
from: Scotland
Says: One of the first records I bought was 'Where theres's a will', the Slits track on the other side is great, but the Popgroup changed my life. This band stopped me lisening to bands like the Exploited and listening to The fire Engines and 23 Skidoo. These people demand respect from everyone with an ounce of sense.

name: sean
date: August 26, 2000 at 05:28:49 CST
email address: Buzzorhowl@hotmail.com
from: australia
Says: Nice site, I've visited it a few times since my discovery of it last year.
I'm obsessed with this band so it was nice to find such a wealth of information on them in this web site, nice work.....Sean

name: Sean
date: August 26, 2000 at 22:37:04 CST
email address: buzzorhowl@hotmail.com
from: Melb. Australia
Says: check out our band the vivian girls...geocities.com/theviviangirls this is our web site......

name: Sean Edwards
date: August 29, 2000 at 07:59:26 CST
email address: seanedwards@yahoo.com
from: Barcelona
Says: Well done!, I am delighted to find this site. I am from Bristol and have been a fan The Pop Group since the release of the 1st single: She is Beyond Good and Evil........................

name: Tim
date: September 8, 2000 at 10:03:09 CST
email address: oscarskidoo@bigpond.com
from: Perth - Oz
Says: Gone into my favourites with a bullet!
Anyone got gigs/demos/sessions to trade on cdr's?
Anyone know where Joe 40 of The Lines is....................busier you are.......................................Regards all,Tim

name: blim thang
date: September 11, 2000 at 19:25:56 CST
email address: jake818@hotmail.com
from: northern ireland
Says: No. I'd like to comment on your 'we are all prostitutes page.' I appreciate your angst ridden argument that capitalism and all that is screwed up. It gave me a laugh and the thought that you lot would be a laugh for a night out. Then I see this bollocks about the British army torturing Irish prisoners??? What the fuck's that about?? First of all, the army have nothing to do with prisons, are never in them and don't meet prisoners. Second, even if they did they have no role to play. The army are in support of the police and don't even arrest people. The problem, folks, is that there is terrorism coming from both communities and the army's role is to help out the cops in saving lives. There is one glaring incident where the army failed to do that, but in 30 years of 3,000 murders directed against civilians, soldiers, cops, prison officers and people who sell - for example - fruit and veg to the police, it's not really the army who are the problem. Any cursory reading of the facts, rather than trendy bandwagon propaganda, would prove that. Anyway, just saying. You need to just chill out a bit and find out a bit more before you insult the dead and the yet to die. Trust me, the last time the army killed anyone in Northern Ireland was 1992. The dead guy was a mass killer who was seeking to kill again. Check that against the IRA/UVF/UFF record. Fuck's sake dudes...get with it.
PS: Love the site. You are all mad as fuck. Keep it up.

name: kyle
date: September 13, 2000 at 16:15:36 CST
email address: hollyroller99@hotmail.com
from: boulder, co. usa
Says: love this site I'd tell all my friends about it but they wouldn't know what the fuck I was talking about. . . the pop group? anyways, I already have y and how much longer do we. . . but I would love find out if their is anyway to get some more and to find out more about the later bands like pigbag and the mark stewart stuff. also if you haven't heard the gogogo airheart's s/t album with the "trap" cover on it your basically fucked until you do. Audi 5000

name: Lucie Hornblower
date: September 14, 2000 at 13:15:33 CST
email address: lucie@hornblowerl.fsnet.co.uk
from: Dudley
Says: I luv 5ive sooooooo much I always drool
Cya Lucie
write to me

name: Robert
date: September 15, 2000 at 09:17:35 CST
email address: robertmiller@shellus.com
from: Houston
Says: A friend sent me this link and what a coincidence (there are no coincidences) I had been listening to "Y" in my car earlier this week. I have been looking for CD pressings of "We Are Time" and "For How Much Longer..." I have them on vinyl but quality is less than optimal. Any suggestions?
What an interesting web site. You must be a true fan of Mark Stewart. I have his solo stuff except for "Control Data" ... I'm looking for that CD also.
The local Best Buy just doesn't seem to carry it (ha)... Best Regards,

name: alberto pel�
date: September 16, 2000 at 10:22:39 CST
email address: redrain@galactica.it
from: italy
Says: I love Pop Group. I love very much your wonderful site that you've dedicated to a great musical project in the end of 70's.

name: claire peterson
date: September 17, 2000 at 09:40:47 CST
email address: sfcc@btinternet.com
from: scotland
Says: I LOVE N'SYNC AND I THINK JUSTIN IS SOOOO CUTE AND HE IS A HUNK

name: sunny
date: September 21, 2000 at 23:52:30 CST
email address: sunnylai@speed.com.sg
from: singapore
Says: head wire

name: Kevin.Morgan
date: September 22, 2000 at 15:05:16 CST
email address: Scoty44@hotmail.com
from: UK, Bristol
Says: Well If Any Drummers Out There Live In The Bristol UK Area Then Send Me A E-Mail Because: i am starting a new band and we dont have a drummer so any info about any drummers would be nice
THANKS

From kev

name: stephanie golding
date: September 23, 2000 at 09:22:20 CST
email address: 71 snowdon rode bs162eq
from: bristol
Says: no

name: Jimmy the Saint
date: September 25, 2000 at 15:30:41 CST
email address: actionagogo@hotmail.com
from: Brighton England
Says: Great site. I've been looking for info about this group. I am trying to track down a 7" of "we are all prostitutes" and the vinyl LPs. I assume they are quite collectable.
I can hear their sound and ideas in so many other groups, even in highly original groups in their own right such as Birthday Party and the Fall. On the current Primal Scream LP they are clearly paying tribute on the track "exterminator".
Thanks.

name: Larry Looney
date: October 2, 2000 at 10:56:27 CST
email address: kramden_bus@yahoo.com
from: Austin TX
Says: I became a huge fan of these guys the moment I first heard 'Y' -- I've managed to actually find it locally on cd (33 Degrees), but I'd really like to know if 'Mass murder' is available on cd. It was my favorite lp. I wrote to them once (many years ago) and got a short reply from John Waddington. Never got to see them live -- not sure if I would have survived the intensity of it. Nice, informative site -- thanks for doing the work!

name: Glyn Burns
date: October 4, 2000 at 14:24:58 CST
email address: parryburns@bigfoot.com
from: Mill Hill NW London
Says: I first saw the Pop Group by accident supporting The Flys and John Otway/Wild Willy Barrett in '79 or so, at the Lyceum , I think. And I was totally captivated. I had never seen anyone perform with such conviction and emotion - it was amazing.

I saw them a few times - Electric Ballroom, St Pauls Church Covent Gdn, Aylesbury Town Hall, London School of Economics (I think??) with both Underwood and Dan Catsis (of the Glaxo Babies??).

I could see the 'innocence' of the band change over a couple of years, may be it was their idealism and early passion/creativity just moving on and settling down - and was obviously sad when Mark left. I've got one of the Maffia CD's (with Sense of Purpose on it) but it doesn't reach the Pop Group stakes really.....

I still look back fondly at those days - I was well into punk / John Peel , etc, but they were the absolute highlight of the period.

Glyn P Burns

name: angelo lopez
date: October 11, 2000 at 07:57:28 CST
email address: mira4@onenet.com.au
from: Perth, Australia
Says: Well in my late teens I was very much inolved in left wing politics and creative, original music and a like minded discovered about the pop group from the NME which was one of the few ways ofmfollowing what was happening outside of Australia.

These many years later its great to come across this page - welcome to Liberty City.

name: Rick Collinge
date: October 13, 2000 at 08:41:52 CST
email address: rickwc1@yahoo.com
from: Amsterdam
Says: Dixon,

Great site. I was thinking about the group the other day and downloaded 'she is beyond good and evil' from the Napster. It's a great record and for me was the best thing they ever did.

I saw the group 3 times. The first time was in 1978, or early 79 when they were playing support to Public Image ltd at a big show at Manchester Belle Vue (long since closed and demolished). They came on after punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and made a fantastic entrance with everybody banging a drum for dear life. Their energy and funkiness shone through and they seemed more exciting than anyone else on the bill that night. The Jamaican reggae act Inner Circle did not show, and I had to leave to get picked up (by my parents - what a geek). The best thing about the night was jumping over a barrier near the stage and finding ourselves backstage in the presence of Johnny Rotten and the other members of PIL. Rotten gave us a beer, but we were so star struck we could hardly speak. When PIL left the dressing room to go on stage we had to leave the hall for our lift.

The next time I saw the group was at Manchester Polytechnic, with Manicured Noise. I arrived at the Cavendish student union really early, to avoid queuing outside. I remember watching the Pop Group walking bout the hall, and my enduring memory is that they had really cool shoes. In those punky times, most people wore Doc Marten boots, baseball boots or teddy boy shoes, so I was most impressed by the groups different footwear, which were quite expensive shoes, with a thin sole and a straight front about 1 inch high. I looked all over the place for a pair of similar shoes, but never found them in black.

The things we liked about the group were

(A) The clothes
(B) The energy and funkiness of the music.
(C) The artwork
(D) The song titles
(E) They always had cool guitars (Rickenbackers and Jazzmasters)

We never really understand what they were going on about, which is probably the reason that our interest disappeared. After my punk period I really got into jazz funk and black music (a scene totally dedicated to clothes) so maybe the group were the catalyst for my new interest.

I still have a couple of Posters for the Public Image support slot, and I will send you a scan.
Keep up the good work

Rick

name: ramesh
date: October 13, 2000 at 17:12:04 CST
email address: ramesh@media.mit.edu
from: boston
Says: this is rad - i'm glad people who love the pop group are out there.

name: Sam Harrison
date: October 14, 2000 at 07:52:10 CST
email address: sammy@g-wizz.net
from: England Hull
Says: I think you are so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are the best pop group in the whole wide world!!!!!!!!!!

i love lee

name: takeshi nakajima
date: October 21, 2000 at 11:03:24 CST
email address: cel51150@nyc.odn.ne.jp
from: Japan
Says: The pop group is greatest musicians and political analysts.Mark's passion is cool and beautiful.
"Ice frame" English is difficult for Japanese.but the pop group is the greatest

name: Binky
date: November 5, 2000 at 14:54:12 CST
email address: human_nail@email.com
from: Gosport, hants, England
Says: Hi,

I've got an excellent bootleg (done on a hand held cassette recorder) of the group live at Portsmouth Mecca recorded 08/03/1979. I only wish I had the facilities to download it to you all cause it's ace! I found the CD at a car boot sale amongst a lot of other stuff, the dodgy geezer who flogged it to me seemed to have quite a lot of gigs from the Portsmouth area on CD! The CD looks homemade (i.e. a blue disc, but the quality would indicate that it was not done on a computer, maybe it's one of those new fangled Phillips CD burners?)

There may be another boot recorded at portsmouth, apparently they played at least twice here, once at the Mecca, then later at the Locarno (which was formerly the mecca.

If you're interested I could see if there is another available.

hope this is of some encouragement.

Neil

human_nail@email.com

Yes, that is an underscore...

name: Brad
date: November 15, 2000 at 14:40:08 CST
email address: bserka@up.edu
from: Portland, OR
Says: I absolutely love the Pop Group. I own "Y" and listen to it frequently.
I was wondering if anyone knows where I can pick up a cd copy of "How much longer...". Also does anyone know where I can find anything by the great late 70's/early 80's German band Palais Schaumburg? That would be very much
appreciated. Is there any Pop Group fans in Portland? If so, I would love to hear from you...

name: Paul de Coninck
date: November 15, 2000 at 18:18:13 CST
email address: pdeconinck@zeelandnet.nl
from: The Netherlands
Says: Still the most impressive and influencing band i've heard in my life.
Thanks for the atmosphere which will always be a part of me.
Expressing my feelings the way they are...
No other band can express the pain within like The Popgroup.
It's maybe even frightening the way it touches my inner self...
Thanks to The Popgroup which will always be THE POPGROUP to me.
LISTEN TO IT AND ASK YOURSELF SOME QUESTIONS!
Thanks guys..

name: cosmic babe
date: November 19, 2000 at 09:22:01 CST
email address:
from: venus
Says: its great

name: Sean
date: December 3, 2000 at 16:50:37 CST
email address: sean@suffragettecity.co.uk
from: London
Says: I recently heard my first Pop Group song (We Are All Prostitutes) via Napster and I thought it was great. So why can't I find a CD anywhere?? Does anyone know of an internet record store which has Pop Group CDs at a reasonable price (preferably in the UK)? I'm sure I remember hearing about their debut album being reissued not so long ago.... thanks a lot....

name: Gareth Buckell
date: December 4, 2000 at 13:01:06 CST
email address: Zinoviev_letter@hotmail.com
from: Manchester, England
Says: Can anyone tell me exactly what Mark Stewart is up to at the moment? The last I heard of him was the 'Consumed - The Remix Wars' single, and that was well over 2 years ago ... even Mute Records don't seem to have any information, and there's very little on the Web.

Any offers?

name: Gareth
date: December 5, 2000 at 05:51:55 CST
email address: Zinoviev_letter@hotmail.com
from: Manchester
Says: Can anyone tell me what Mark Stewart is doing at the moment? I've heard nothing of him since 'Consumed - The Remix Wars' was released, and that was well over two years ago ... even Mute Records haven't yielded very much. Any offers?

Also looking for bass tab to any Pop Group tracks, if anyone can help me out on either of these things, e-mail me at the address above ...

name: georges kaplan
date: December 6, 2000 at 07:00:39 CST
email address: kaplan.georges@caramail.com
from: france
Says: great band,great personality and obviously fantastic records.
"Y" is something you can't easily forget once you've heard it.
Good point for your site.Friendly.G.K

name: Nicole
date: December 10, 2000 at 16:45:10 CST
email address: CSClink@aol.com
from: The United States,Tucson, Arizona
Says: This website is very cool!

name: Chris Harrison
date: December 29, 2000 at 19:38:15 CST
email address: chris.harrison@gb.co.uk
from: Nottingham,UK
Says: Probably the most significant music band in my past. Inspirational bass playing had a massive effect - my band nearly played with Rip, Rig and Panic. Love the site - nice one. Chris

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