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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
MARK STEWART AKA MARK STEWART AND THE MAFFIA AKA THE POP GROUP ANSWERS 11 QUESTIONS ...
(PHOTO OF MARK STEWART © ECHO DANON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)1-Five songs you can't get out of your head right now?
Mark:
"The Day the World Turned Blue" Gene Vincent
"Under My Wheels" Alice Cooper
"Metal Machine Music" Lou Reed
2-Last film you watched and actually liked?
Mark:
3-Book you are reading?
Mark:
"The Occult Technology of Power"
4-Visual artist/writer/music/film you feel inspired by right now?
Mark:
5-First record/cassette tape you ever bought?
Mark:
6-Record labels you miss?
Mark:
"Cheap Records"
7-What are you working on right now?
Mark:
8-Bands/musicians you wish would get back together and not put out a crappy new record?
Mark:
9-Musician who died that you wish you could bring back from the grave?
Mark:
"Every body"
10-Favorite song lyrics?
Mark:
"Hell is empty" me
11-Favorite poets?
Mark:
Mark Stewart - Loner 2008 - Directed by Angie Reed
Music: Mark Stewart / Phillipp Quehenberger © Crippled Dick Hot Wax!
ON/OFF Directed by Toni Schifer
The documentary ON/OFF: Mark Stewart - from The Pop Group to the Maffia by Tøni Schifer will be gracing selected cinemas and film festivals. The film retraces the singer's steps and paths from the early days of The Pop Group right up to the present. Schifer, who followed Mark around for a full two years, has crafted a detailed, often intimate portrait of the artist, supplemented by interviews with a. o. Mark Stewart himself, Adrian Sherwood, Daniel Miller (Mute), Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, Keith LeBlanc, Douglas Hart (The Jesus & Mary Chain), Fritz Catlin (23 Skidoo), Jon Spencer, Gareth Sager (The Pop Group, Rip Rig and Panic) and many others, plus live recordings and music clips. The DVD will be released by Monitorpop in 2009.
The ON/OFF film premiere is scheduled for April 24, 2009 in London at The East End Film Festival.
DJs: Tøni Schifer and Adrian Sherwood.
Mr. Stewart will be there as well of course.
So, if you happen to be in the UK find a way to go!
Monday, March 2, 2009
IN REMEMBRANCE OF PYLON GUITARIST RANDY BEWLEY
"Pylon guitarist Randy Bewley died this afternoon after suffering a heart attack while driving in an Athens neighborhood Monday.
Bewley was driving on Barber Street on Monday evening, and his van drifted off the road and tipped over, bandmate Vanessa Hay said in an e-mail to supporters.
He died shortly before 5 p.m.
Bewley and bassist Michael Lachowski founded Pylon in Athens in 1978, and quickly recruited drummer Curtis Crowe and Hay — then Vanessa Briscoe — as vocalist. The band debuted in 1979, releasing three albums, and disbanded in November 1991 — after a farewell performance at the 40 Watt, according to the All-Music Guide.
The band reunited for a New Year’s Day performance in 2005 and has been playing local dates and touring on and off since then."
Source: Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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