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name: Dixon
date: January 1, 2004 at 10:55:50 CST
email address: edge at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
web address: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~edge
from: Austin, Texas
Says: Happy 2004! We are time.
name: ian p-ostman
date: January 7, 2004 at 12:00:28 CST
email address: crimsondingle@btinternet.com
web address: http://
from: UK
Says: Hi, johnny-come-lately here. Just found your site thanks to a link at the canopener yahoo group. I remember seeing TPG at the Collegiate Theatre in London in late 77 (I think).It must have been one of their first London gigs.I enjoyed them very much & it set me on a course of buying Sager/Smith/Springer music e.g. RR&P, FUpCP,GMC. I actually love the spin-off groups more than TPG (apart from Y), so it's a shame much of this music doesn't have a higher profile. I read in an interview with Gareth Sager in the early 90's that Neneh Cherry's management were responsible for blocking the re-issue of much of this stuff (she was very prominent in the charts at this time). By the way, TPG shared the bill with This Heat & the music went up another level when they came on (talk about intense), sorry. I have loads of stuff burned to CDR e.g. FUpCP, GMC which I am willing to share with fans as it is not commercially available in either mp3 or SHN format, but can anyone come up with an efficient way to do it, as there seems to be a lot of people out there struggling to get hold of this stuff judging from your guestbook. ian
name: Andy
date: January 20, 2004 at 09:10:46 CST
email address: loveandy@ntlworld.com
web address: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/funkoloco/music/
from: London & Reading
Says: Why haven't you dated anything on the site. "I was at their first gig..." but no date. The reason why I ask is because I have always been convinced that The Pop Group came from James Chance - which is why Chance is far more convincing (which originals are). Other English people are very defensive and claim that Chance wasn't first, that Post Punk Funk simply had its New York branch, but given that the live tracks on the first disc of Irrestible Impulse are from Spring 78 and could only be mistaken for The Pop Group at their VERY BEST, I suspect that New York came first. Incidentally, I remember in 1971 telling guys in the Keith Tippett Group that they should funk it up a bit - perhaps with a funky bass line - which, of course, would have been exactly the same as Pig Bag, but ten years earlier. I still maintain that the REAL ORIGINATOR of post punk funk was the Arthue Brown track "The Lord Don't Want You" from 1969 - I'll repeat that, 1969 - which is still both completely unique and a step ahead of anything that has ever been made, ever. If you're interested then you give me your e-mail address and I'll send you an mp3. There you have it. LOVE (informative) ANDY!
name: René le Fuck
date: January 30, 2004 at 12:33:48 CST
email address: rene@alte-fuck.de
web address: http://www.alte-fuck.de
from: Germany
Says: Been straying thru time, space and my recordcollection, found "we´r all prostitutes", loved it then, love it still, will love it further on ... Stay true ...
name: simon
date: February 8, 2004 at 10:56:06 CST
email address: jarvisimon@aol.com
web address: http://
from: devon uk
Says: love 'em. the y album was on pretty much every morning before i went to school. i don't play it so often now but that's not to say i've stopped listening to it. personally i think it's very musical but if you play it to someone who hasn't heard it before they will more than likely tell you to turn it off. the kids of today, don't know what they're missing!
name: Zarief Lao
date: February 10, 2004 at 09:43:46 CST
email address: zarief@pop.jaring.my
web address: http://
from: Malaysia
Says: Graduated in Canada back in 1984! Am 40 something now. Pop Group, sigh Highly under rated band in the globe !! Hv 'We Are Pros' and 'Y' on CD. Me sons cud not understanda music fm this group compare with his 50cents and Licking Park. Am hunting for Rip Rig & Panic now, still hv me old LPs but with our kinda climate.... fungus and more fungus, record needle and turntable belt long time disintegrated. On your site, da best. No site offers such wealth of info. Keep it up. One and only one! Salute zarief lao
name: RAB
date: February 24, 2004 at 19:01:04 CST
email address: rabandness@aol.com
web address: http://
from: Bristol
Says: Hi, I bumped into your site by chance.The name's RAB and I used to write for Sounds back when the pop group started.As far as I know I wrote the first feature on them for a national music paper.Would you like a copy if I can scan it down and email it to you?Also I have some of my reviews of PG plus pigbag, maximum joy, the slits, colour tapes, all the old gang so to speak.If interested just email the above, RAB.
name: alex carrasco
date: March 1, 2004 at 18:21:58 CST
email address: meatismurder59@yahoo.com
web address: http://
from: san jose, ca.
Says: i heard the pop group on the too scared to dance compilation on rhino records. it blew me away it sent shivers down my spine and i could'nt get enough of it. it was the best song on the compilation next to joy division whom they reminded me of and also the bauhuas. where can i get an album?
name: Julian
date: March 7, 2004 at 14:24:50 CST
email address: juliantucker@blueyonder.co.uk
web address: http://
from: Bristol now
Says: Got drunk messy with Mark , Gareth was a little straighter in public anyway...
name: Tim Williams
date: March 12, 2004 at 11:49:31 CST
email address: tim.t.williams@royalmail.co.uk
web address: http://
from: Bristol
Says: I was the editor/writer of Loaded fanzine that covered the first Pop Group gig and is featured on this site. I saw all of their early gigs and rehearsals - they were good mates. Happy to share my memories if there is any interest.
name: massimo
date: March 14, 2004 at 14:41:13 CST
email address: cosmicjazz@tin.it
web address: http://
from: florence italy
Says: compliments for the website, very helpful
this sunday I was listening to some DNA, Rip Rig & Panic and finally Pop Group old records of mine.
I'd like to ask you if you have information of any guests playing in "for how much longer..." and if they were using the music of Last Poets live and how, audiotape, LP...
Thanks, I'll try to send you informations on them, I actually have the "Rockerilla" issue with the photo you also list in your website and some italian edition of their records.
ciao
massimo
name: FLOOD
date: April 8, 2004 at 07:32:10 CST
email address: FLOOD@BIGPOND
web address: http://
from: AUSTRALIA
Says: FIRST CAME ACROSS THE POP GROUP IN 78 THEY WERE ON THE COVER OF NME I BOUGHT IN A SMALL SHOP IN COUNTRY NEW SOUTH WALES. I BOUGHT ALL THEIR MATERIAL AS I COME ACROSS IT EVER SINCE, EVEN THEIR OFFSPRING
name: rupert
date: April 17, 2004 at 09:59:47 CST
email address: r_goldsworthy@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: new york city
Says: excellent site. thank you dixon.
i grew up in england in the late 70s and bought "how much longer" when it came out. i’d never heard of them, just liked the cover. i personally found it the most influential record of that era and bought everything else by them. i saw the pop group once only, the cnd rally in trafalgar square. was that their last gig? great energy but a shortish set. they performed "jerusalem" with mark ad-libbing at one point "my daddy is a banker in south africa.." to much amusement. they finished with “rob a bank”? most of the crowd didn’t know what to make of them. half were old-school cnd-ers 50+ who were just on the march to demonstrate. that was great because it made the pg’s performance seem like a surprise attack. they performed on a stage at the foot of nelson's column between two lions. perfect. later i saw rip rig and panic a few times, at ica, at notting hill carnival performing under westway, and around at london festivals. always very good but lacking the pop group's manic drive. also great were the hot sty club nights organized in soho in early eighties. amazing atmosphere, organized I think by gareth, bruce, other rrp crowd who were much in evidence, spinning. they'd play great stuff like "shake your body to the ground". very friendly vibe. never that cliquey "too cool" atmosphere of much of post-punk scene.. instead, very inclusive, mixed crowd. some of mark's solo stuff has been really interesting but his later move into industrial/techno, (“data control”) left me abit cold musically. but the lyrics are still as interesting as ever. he seems to keep quite a low profile.
a recent entry in your guestbook claims james chance as a precedent/influence to the pg. possible but it sounds abit like that revisionist punk history “please kill me” by legs o’neil that posits that the nyc punk scene did it all first before london, (when in fact the nyc scene was small, nihilistic, never political and short-lived. the british context was entirely different, much more political). the pg were always open about their musical sources: james brown, coltrane, bootsy, chic, dub etc. -black american music, not white. in the late 70s in england there were many punk funk outfits that developed out of an interest in mixing punk with disco/funk. -gang of four, a certain ratio, delta five, basement five, 23 skidoo, and later that early 80s white pop-funk wave, abc, higsons, haircut 100 etc. there was also the crass/anarco contingent. I saw a lot of both types of bands at that time. what really set the pop group apart from the rest for me was that they had such fire, commitment, and also an approachability about them. the legacy of bands that have since come out of the pg family/bristol is testament to their originality.
much later, 1998, i was running a small art gallery in nyc, a friend of a friend comes in one day, we get talking and at one point he mentioned very casually "oh i used to be in a punk band in the late 70s.” "what band?" “you'd never have heard of us. from bristol, but not the cortinas”. “what band?” "the pop group" he says. turns out it's bruce smith. gobsmacked i gabber my huge fandom. bruce is very cool. in the late 90s bruce was making music with a brazilian musician. and living in nyc. we stayed in touch abit. will mention the site to him if he’s unaware of it. one interesting thing he told me about the band was how young they were at the time. half were still in school when "y" was made. i asked bruce what mark was up to in those days. he thought he was living in spain. if you’re interested, i have some other british press from late 70s, reviews of "how much longer" and "we are time" including that scathing paul morley nme review. i can scan and send them if you want. the morley review of "how much longer" felt like a big blow. it totally misrepresented their ideology, that they were completely politically naive. i wondered if the angle of the review had anything to do with editorial policy at nme and ipc, themselves offshoots of rather dubious multinationals.
i'm interested to find "coping with cowardice" and "building a bridge" or anyone ever comes across film or audio of the rest of the alexandra palace concert which i sadly missed.
given that everyone is still around, would they ever play together again? two ideas for additions to your excellent site: a historical chronology, and some sort of explanation of why they broke with radar, why simon left, why they broke up, and also on the background/context that they came out of, bristol, and on the police troubles in the st.paul's area in that era. it'd also be interesting to try and gather a list of known gigs played and whom with.
thanks again. best to you.-rupert goldsworthy


name: Dixon
date: April 30, 2004 at 14:42:19 CST
email address: edge @ ccwf.cc.utexas.eduuu
web address: http://www.thepopgroup.net
from: Austin, TX
Says: "The way out is through the door, how come nobody uses it?!"    
name: Pedro Mesquita
date: May 4, 2004 at 09:07:09 CST
email address: pqmesquita@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: Portugal
Says: I love the Pop Group, the best band ever !
name: Pedro Mesquita
date: May 4, 2004 at 10:03:01 CST
email address: pqmesquita@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: Portugal
Says: I can send you the cover and label artwork of the Slits Single The Man Next Door. Cheers
name: xrayspex
date: May 16, 2004 at 22:04:45 CST
email address: storm64007@aol.com
web address: http://
from: NYC
Says: The Pop Group were AMAZING!! Great site!
name: Ashlee
date: May 17, 2004 at 11:19:47 CST
email address: luxlucis@austin.rr.com
web address: http://
from: Austin
Says: First off, thanks for introducing me to what will surely be one of my favorite bands ever. Great site and a real travesty this music isn't more available. Have you ever seen any guitar tablature for any of their songs? Cheers!
name: Herry
date: May 31, 2004 at 18:15:15 CST
email address: herry@yawp.nl
web address: http://www.yawp.nl
from: Netherlands
Says: The Popgroup was a great band, never got the fame they deserved. Eventho I didn't really understand the music, I was kinda seized by the atmosphere and the lyrics (Duh, I guess I was about 15 and not a native english speaker, when Y was released). The music was a long way from what I was listening to in those days, like Discharge, Sham 69, Crass... Nowadays my taste has grown wider, but I would still mention both the Popgroup and Discharge and such as my main sources of influence on the music I make myself.
name: Luc
date: June 8, 2004 at 22:02:07 CST
email address: melluc@earthlink.net
web address: http://
from: upstate New York
Says: Stumbled upon this site, which triggered the memory of the autumn afternoon circa 1980 when I was hanging around my friend Felice's apartment on First Avenue near St. Mark's, NYC. We were smoking pot and listening to the brand new 12" of "Mr. Boss Man" by Linval Thompson. Felice was leaning on the windowsill looking down at the sidewalk two floors below. Suddenly I heard her yell, "Hey, Pop Group!" and then, "Come on up!" A few minutes later three or four guys appeared at the door. I don't know how Felice spotted them. I couldn't have picked them out of a lineup. Anyway at that point I'd only heard the single of "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" c/w "3:34" (still my fave!) and possibly had never seen a picture. The Pop Group filed in and sat down politely. We made a minor bit of small talk, and then immediately resumed smoking pot and listening to very loud dub reggae. Several hours passed in this fashion. Eventually everyone left.
name: martyn bates
date: July 8, 2004 at 15:28:26 CST
email address: martyn.bates@hot-toast.com
web address: http://
from: uk
Says: I NEED TO HEAR 'LET ME TALK TO THE DRIVER''. CAN ANYONE HELP?
name: Dixon
date: July 8, 2004 at 15:31:39 CST
email address: edge@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu_NOSPAM
web address: http://www.thepopgroup.net
from: Austin
Says: Ditto!! I would love to hear Let Me Talk to the Driver.
name: Katja Shadkovska
date: July 16, 2004 at 17:34:27 CST
email address: blacksheep@nm.ru or chadkovska@yahoo.com
web address: http://www.blacksheep.nm.ru
from: Poland/Russia
Says: Your site is really great, thank you! Looking at the pics you've taken in England, I got a very warm feeling, something special emanates from your faces. I don't know what exactly that is, I can't put it all into words. I haven't been listening to Mark Stewart/Pop Group for ages, the old tapes with their stuff have all dissolved into thin air and I couldn't find anything in shops or thru shareware. Though a couple of days ago I finally ran onto Mark's 1985 album which is just incredible! It seems like he's playing on the strings of his soul, like on his live flesh. He is one of the most innovative, I mean REALLY innovative musicians of our times, for me at least, and who knows if his output is not gonna become more vivid in the future cos most of us are now just too narrow to understand fully what he does. I should say that over in Russia, especially in St.Petersburgh music scene, MS is very popular (if I could use such word) and some bands like Messer Fuer Frau Muller/Messerchups are very much influenced by him. Their ex-vocalist Tima Zemlianikin, has even got an amazing solo project based on his experience of MS's music. I've been searching for any fresh info on Mark Stewart and I can't find it unfortunately. Do you maybe have an idea of what's going on with him and whether he's working on any new stuff this time? It is very interesting to be reading all the things you got on your site, thank you so much for it and keep up the great work! You seem like really amazing people and I would love to meet you one day. Cheers, Katja.
name: jean-marie mievis
date: July 24, 2004 at 07:27:24 CST
email address: jeanmarie.mievis1@yucom.be
web address: http://
from: belgium
Says: Great to find out that someone dedecated a site to the pop group. I love them since I first heard them in 1982 with the album "For how much...". I'm still missing some of their records though. I might have some old articles about them or Mark stewart , but they come from Belgian and Holland magazine, so they are in dutch. I did see Rip, Rig and Panic live in Brussels, ages ago and it was great. They are one of my favourite bands. Keep up the good work, Jean-marie
name: rico
date: July 24, 2004 at 08:51:04 CST
email address: rico@hongkong.com
web address: http://
from: hong kong
Says: What a group, love everything about them, the sound the attitude etc... Just so difficult to find much info about them but i'm happy to have found this site - by accicdent !! I was at Glastonbury for their gig but sadly remember not too much about it now apart from the fact that one of the guys was wearing a dress and the sun was shining !!
name: Ross
date: July 24, 2004 at 20:10:52 CST
email address: ...soon
web address: http://
from: Isle of man
Says: Thanks for the site. Most appriciated. {sorry quick rushed note..) Pop Group have been v.Biggest influence on me since I found We are Time comp. in the back of a Video shop I was working in 1982 or 83... Then the stunning M.S. L.ps Pushed things even futher into that intense space.. possibly the most extreme Dub since lee Perry's Revolution Dub...Womans Gotta Have it( Woman dub) seems a big influence? I got a couple of live Mark Stewart+Maffia gigs on Tape= in London/Veneer period. good ish quality;M.S.jams with Gary Clail,with duvious lyric about shagging yr donkey? & White Lines Riff played with W.A.A.prostitues lyric. will forward 2.u. if u like? {will sent my e-mail address soon} Good luck with the site; and thanks for the chance 2 hear the rare recordings,
name: DAN
date: August 11, 2004 at 19:39:47 CST
email address: advertising@representative.com
web address: http://www.2gees.co.uk
from: uk
Says: Hi, Just want to inform you about new UK urban subcultures, www.2gees.co.uk, 3gees.co.uk and skateboardcity.net peace and one love
name: DAN
date: August 11, 2004 at 19:39:48 CST
email address: advertising@representative.com
web address: http://www.2gees.co.uk
from: uk
Says: Hi, Just want to inform you about new UK urban subcultures, www.2gees.co.uk, 3gees.co.uk and skateboardcity.net peace and one love
name: Rob E
date: August 17, 2004 at 17:02:51 CST
email address: r.england7@ntlworld.com
web address: http://
from: Leeds UK
Says: This is a really excellent site - exactly what this incredible band deserves. Best wishes to everyone involved.
name: Grzegorz (Gregory)
date: August 21, 2004 at 10:37:10 CST
email address: g.koksanowicz@aida.net.pl
web address: http://
from: Poland, Wroclaw
Says: Hi, I'm Polish. My english is far from being good but i try to write something understanding. I heard the Pop Group LP in mid 1982 for the first time. I don't remember it was "Y" or " We're time". I had this LP for ca. half a year. Now i get an idea to find some my lost punk/new wave-favourits in web. I have still this powerful and beautiful songs of Pop Group in my mind. Now i hear theese all and memories come back. Pig Bag was an another super group. I try to find somethind on the web, now. Can i buy 1 CD from Pop Group ? "Y" or " We're time" ? Help me !
name: Mia Sorensen
date: August 24, 2004 at 12:51:21 CST
email address: mia.sorensen@nick.com
web address: http://hotpineapples.com
from: NYC
Says: I want to know where to get albums from. Someone gave me a bootleg mix of different bands and I just listened to the pop group and I love their sound. It reminds me of recent offerings from !!!, OUTHUD, the Liars, et al. Is there someone I can buy bootlegs or albums from? I've looked through a bunch of places with no avail. If you could help that would be really great. Thanks for your site.
name: nigel
date: August 29, 2004 at 08:55:06 CST
email address: nigeljmarshall@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: travel a lot. London at the moment
Says: I want to license some Pop Group material to release on my reisuue label Turning Point. Any idea who I can contact?
name: Mark Lomas
date: September 4, 2004 at 10:25:44 CST
email address: lomas@dodo.com.au
web address: http://
from: Perth, Western Australia
Says: Just embarking on the journey of trying to find The Pop Group's releases on CD (or even on CD-R) without much luck. Does anyone know where I can get hold of the last 3 releases? I know that "Y" an be had (for a price) but the others are elusive if not impossible to track down. Anyone know of any label plans to re-release anything? Awesome site - your love for the music is tangible, well done!
name: freaky flip
date: September 14, 2004 at 18:36:48 CST
email address: pinkfishclub@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: belgium
Says: hello there, I have a piece of "bankrobber" live from a holland tv-broadcast,and might come up with a link with live-photography. I'm not innarested in selling or trading, only wanna send it over so you could eventually put it on your site...
name: lozzah*d*
date: September 20, 2004 at 03:16:29 CST
email address: dickenson69@msn.com
web address: http://
from: in england manchester
Says: i fink the pop group is mint its not really my stile but there really good at wot dey do any1 who wnts 2 email me can do so frm lozzah*d*
name: Leigh Williams
date: September 20, 2004 at 12:43:52 CST
email address: leigh991@aol.com
web address: http://
from: Bristol England
Says: Hi,I am Tim Williams brother, who i know that you have had dealings with. I was also around at the birth of TPG, and saw all ther early gig's. I have afew photo's that you maybe interested in. Great site
name: Philip Cucinella
date: September 23, 2004 at 10:26:04 CST
email address: pcucinella@jhha
web address:
from: Mamaroneck, New York
Says: I have "For How Long.." vinyl Lp, "Y" cd "She Is Beyond Good & Evil" 7" (i have NEVER seen the 12" & I've been collecting for Over 35 years)I'm missing "We Are Time" & the rest of thier recorded output. I ABSOLUTELY NEED "We Are All Prostitutes" cd & "For How Long.." on cd. Can anyone help me in my search for all items above? My E-Mail is pcucinella@jhha.org (i have early Pavement 7" & various vinyl/CD collectables.) Keep this web sight and the fires burning! I mean The Pop Group Was HOT!
name: Jerry
date: September 30, 2004 at 14:29:11 CST
email address:
web address: http://
from: Wales
Says: This is a wonderful site. I was sat at my computer tonight thinking, 'I wonder if there is anything out there on The Pop Group' and there you are! I am originally from Bristol and can well recall the excitement on first hearing this wonderful band from my home city. I have to confess, I never actually saw them live but I do own their excellent 'We Are Time' album. I recall interviews with the band in tiny local fanzines (around 1977/78) and all their wild intensity. I was about the same age as the band and they managed to turn me on to Beefheart, Stockhausen, Coltrane and Ornette Coleman just by mentioning them so much! Bristol was pretty dead musically until they came along and since those times us Bristolians can be proud of the likes of Massive Attack, Tricky, Porishead and Roni Size. All these folk owe something to The Pop Group. I did get to see Rip, Rig and Panic (formed by Gareth Sager and featuring Nena Cherry on vocals) and am still a big fan of their wigged out jazz madness. Pigbag were fun too. Still, The Pop Group started it all. Oh yeah, 'She Is Beyond Good and Evil', which I still own on original 12" vinyl...isn't that one of the best singles EVER??? Thanks for the memories.
name: Jerry
date: September 30, 2004 at 14:57:03 CST
email address: jeremystone626@msn.com
web address: http://
from:
Says: Shit! I had the badge featured on your clippings page. Cool! Cheers!
name: JudeOne
date: October 5, 2004 at 09:18:36 CST
email address:
web address: http://www.rhythmonline.co.uk
from: Cambridge, UK
Says: Hi You can buy The Pop Group / Glaxo Babies and loads more music of that ilk from Rhythm Online. We're a small online music store with a massive listing of rare / collectable independent label music (from the '70s through to the best of today's releases), and we've probably got one of the largest lists of its kind on the web. Check us out! Cheers, Jude x
name: Neil Martin
date: October 11, 2004 at 01:04:44 CST
email address: RDLaing@aol.com
web address: http://
from: Manningtree, UK
Says: Nothing more than other people really, just that when I saw them in 1977 they stood out like sore thumbs (along with Wire and Ultravox)from the three-chord Ramones copyists. I really wanted to ask for your email, because the one I tried was returned as undeliverable. I have discovered a live Pigbag album you might like to include on your offspring page. Yeah I saw them all, Pigbag, RR & P, Maximum Joy (that crazy bird screaming like a teenybopper in 'Stretch').
name: isidro
date: October 11, 2004 at 10:52:26 CST
email address: isidro_e_rodriguez@yahoo.com
web address: http://
from: Berlin, Germany (at the moment)
Says: Great to see someone put up a site for this innovative, and, sadly, little know, group. Good work!
name: Jake
date: October 20, 2004 at 07:24:50 CST
email address: jake@handsonit.co.uk
web address: http://
from: UK
Says: Fantastic site - keep up the jukebox - any chance of leaving the old links around? I saw your comment about the quality of the bootlegs - yes in those days the bootleggers stood at the back of the gig with a ghetto blaster in a plastic bag - there wasn't the equipment you can get now, and the quality was appalling. You were *very* lucky indeed if you got something fed down from the mixing desk, and even then the balance would all be out because half the amplification was done on stage. I was at that Ally Pally gig where Ari Up sang with the Pop Group, Budgie stood in on drums for The Slits, various other changes, can't remember if the Au Pairs actually did a set they were double booked that day to support Toyah of all people! John Cooper Clark was there - can anyone remind me who else played?
name: Brennan Green
date: October 23, 2004 at 17:44:26 CST
email address: brennan@syntaxmusic.com
web address: http://
from: NYC, baby
Says: Hi there, I'm actually trying to contact either the band Disconnection or anyone involved with Y records the label. If you have any contact info or can put me in contact with somebody I would appreciate it. thanks so much for your time, brennan green P.S. : love the T.P.G too by the way!
name: Sam
date: October 31, 2004 at 12:18:43 CST
email address: sam.clarkstone@btinternet.com
web address: http://
from: Stroud, Glos. UK
Says: Saw them many of times in Bristol and beyond. This band was outstandingly special from the start. Gigs were greeted with a shiver down the spine, which was weird as all the members were known to the Bristol crowd as fellow punks.
name: Del
date: November 7, 2004 at 03:15:46 CST
email address: deliciousbrown88@yahoo.com
web address: http://
from: Washington State
Says: wow...amazing...and...i am speechless.
name: Jonny
date: November 11, 2004 at 11:28:06 CST
email address: sjonnygee@msn.com
web address: http://
from: Midlands. uk.
Says: the pop group tape from way back is old and sticky but still plays. Mark Stewart and The Mafia - nijmegen(NL) 1990 - f.excellent. ''Mark Stewart is a genius'' Trent Reznor nov.'04
name: Dave
date: November 20, 2004 at 09:05:41 CST
email address: buginabasbin@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: UK
Says: I only have 1 track and thats we are all prostites on the rough trade post punk vol 1 cd, if totally rocks and needs to released or remixed right now. it fucking rocks and the lyrics are pertinent right now, don't u think?
name: eric
date: November 27, 2004 at 14:44:24 CST
email address: eeric@u2vl.org
web address: http://u2vl.org
from: Belgium
Says: We are all prostitutes. Everyone has their price. Everyooooooooooooooooooooooooone Great site. Congrats.
name: JR
date: December 7, 2004 at 08:45:15 CST
email address: Johnxrobinson@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: London UK
Says: Saw The Pop Group support Patti Smith in Cardiff in 1978 or thereabouts - a wild gig that us lot in Wales loved - much to Mark's amazement on their THIRD encore. Naturally changed life forever. Used to see them pop over to Cardiff as punters to Chapter Arts Centre during it's very leftfield avant-jazz days around that time too. Followed through Mafia days, and his current nu-electro stuff is rather cool too, eh?
name: James Moseley
date: December 9, 2004 at 17:09:17 CST
email address: moseleyjs@hotmail.com
web address: http://
from: London
Says: I've been a devoted fan of The Pop Group ever since I first saw them at the Roundhouse in London 1978, supporting Pere Ubu and The Stranglers. Its brilliant to see such a well put together website devoted to their extraordinary music and their various offshoots. Thanks.
name: Fernando
date: December 11, 2004 at 22:04:56 CST
email address: fermherrera@yahoo.es
web address: http://
from: Barcelona, Spain
Says: Hi! First, I'd like to give you thanks for this very page - THANKS!!! I've seen in the guestbook that most people are talking about how they got to know the Pop Group, so let's keep the tradition: Discovering TPG was a long journey for me, because their records are/were so hard to find. My first contact was with the offspring, i.e. Pigbag and their 'Papa's got...' single, which was a semihit in Spain (I think) when I was still a child (1982). Come time, I got to know more about this intriguing band and about the Pop Group. Then I knew about TPG having a song called "We are all prostitutes". The very title shocked me and made me thought a lot for years. And I saw a t-shirt with the title stamped on it and, if memory serves, a pic of someone (Ms. Thatcher?) showing the stiff little fingers... I was really intrigued with the band for years, but I never got to hear them til the last 90's when finally I found the 'Y' LP on CD. Shocking experience, again... One curious thing about the LP, it remind me a lot of the noisy 2nd LP of Flux of Pink Indians (The fxxking cxnts treat us like prxcks, 84), but of course TPG are 1000 times more musical than that... Then I found the 1998 CD comp and I heard at last the intriguing song, 15 years or so after having heard about it!! That's when I discovered this page, circa 1999, & I copied the lyrics and other info. The very only page about TPG (thanks again). The journey hasn't still come to its end, cos I'm interested a lot in finding more Pigbag stuff, RR&P, The Playgroup LP, - but everything is impossible to find! Then here there's the mp3's. Lovely. Some contributions now. You could give more precise data for the discography: the months of the dates of release: "She's beyond..." (Radar, 3/79), Y LP (4/79), We are all prostitutes 45 (11/79), Split EP w/ Slits (3/80), For how much longer... LP (3/80), We are time comp (6/80). I have more data like these for the offspring bands if you want them. (From Gimarc, Punk diary 70-79 and 80-82, plus "Indie Hits 1980-1989", basically. - Gimarc gives even the 'exact' days of release, problem is, I've found he's not always precise, as his main source is the info in the magazines of the era.) "Prostitutes" appears on another comp which you haven't mentioned, i.e. "Rough Trade Shops - Post Punk 01" (Mute CDStumm 224, 2003). Great comp - Maximum Joy, Pigbag and New Age Steppers are included too (tracks are "Stretch (disco-rap mix)", "Sunny day" and "Fade away" respectively). An idea for improving the page - give the info about the Megabytes of the mp3's. Some archives are enormous (9 MB) for people who, like me, have a slow connection. Bye! P.S. "Querer es poder", that's how we say it in Spain (where there's a will...).
name: ebo
date: December 23, 2004 at 13:42:09 CST
email address: eboplants@blueyonder.co.uk
web address: http://
from: bristol
Says: long live the memory
name: HEN BEVERLY
date: December 24, 2004 at 05:27:00 CST
email address: henskeee@btinternet.com
web address: http://
from: ABERDEEN / SCOTLAND
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