The Pop Group
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The Pop Group: London College of Printing
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 28 January 1978
Introducing eh?! and the enigmas ...
The Pop Group/This Heat: Collegiate Theatre, London
Live Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 17 July 1978
TWO SEEMINGLY unconventional, superficially 'bleak', jagged modern-music outfits. Both engineer music suggesting radical departure, still somehow quaint. ...
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
PARDON ME if I've misunderstood, but amongst all those pretty speeches and petty let-downs didn't somebody once ask for 'new music night and day'? And ...
The Pop Group/LKJ/Nico/Cab Voltaire
Live Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 October 1978
Disorder by juxtaposition. Subversion by paradox. Nothing is as simple as we're told. New feelings. ...
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: An Appraisal Of 'Next Year's Thing'
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978
The Pop Group/Nico/Linton Kwesi Johnson/Cabaret Voltaire: Electric Ballroom, London ...
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 March 1979
RACE TODAY magazine/organisation, acknowledging the central importance of Manchester in the struggle of black people, launched their northern campaign with a fund raising "Creation For ...
The Pop Group: First Steps In The Primal Skank
Report and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 March 1979
Tribal customs live on, even in the era of Afterpunk. RICHARD WILLIAMS investigates The Pop Group. ...
We Know There’s Something Wrong Somewhere: The Pop Group
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 24 March 1979
This and other astute observations on life, art and the consumer society in THE POP GROUP interview. ...
The Pop Group: Y (Radar RAD 20)***½
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 14 April 1979
This is the (Penguin classic) modern world ...
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 28 April 1979
THE POP GROUP. An enigmatic name. Not so much ironic as is often claimed, more plain cheeky. ...
The Pop Group: Idealists in Distress
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979
They are young. They are talented. They are committed. They are now without a record company. 'So what seems to be the problem, boys?' asks ...
The Pop Group, Scritti Politti: University Of London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 24 November 1979
THE TRADITION of the angry young idealist, full of righteous fervour, self-righteous condescension towards those at odds with his or her volatile beliefs, and a ...
The Slits, The Pop Group: Roll On, Sartre's Marbles!!
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 15 March 1980
THE SLITS: 'In The Beginning There Was Rhythm'/THE POP GROUP: 'Where There's A Will There's A Way' (Rough Trade) ...
The Slits, The Pop Group: Rough Justice in the Court of the Purple Paragraph
Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 21 June 1980
Following a more-than-rigorous analysis of the last Slits/Pop Group single, the twin terrors of Rough Trade challenged Ian Penman to a verbal showdown. This is his ...
The Pop Group: We Are Time (Y/Rough Trade)
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 26 July 1980
THIS COULD have been a great record. On paper, it seemed to be a handful of The Pop Group's strongest suits. ...
The Pop Group: The Politics of Dancing
Profile and Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 29 October 1998
THE POP GROUP'S life was brief and fierce. Begun in 1978, collapsing in 1980, the Bristol teenagers' insertion of black funk, free jazz, dub and ...
Post-Punk: Lubricate Your Living Room
Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
FORGET ABOUT THE NOSTALGIA-MONGERING AND KITSCH REVIVALISM – THE POST-PUNK PERIOD OF 1979-81 WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY FERTILE TIME FOR BRITISH MUSIC, WHEN INDIE LABELS FLOURISHED ...
Post Punk's Not Dead!: ATTACK!
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, MOJO, January 2004
The avant-garde post-'77 post-punk sound was a revolutionary amalgam of funk, punk, disco and reggae. Mark Paytress explains the battle plan. ...
Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up and Start Again – Post-Punk 1978-84 (Faber)
Book Review by Andy Beckett, London Review of Books, September 2005
IN JANUARY 1978, the Sex Pistols, then and now the most famous punk band in the world, split up. Johnny Rotten, the band's singer, most ...
The Oral History of the Pop Group: The Noisy Brits Who Were Too Punk for the Punks
Interview by Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 7 November 2014
While London was calling, these Bristol teenagers responded with dub, avant-jazz and noise — and inspired everyone from Nick Cave to Nine Inch Nails. ...
Have the Pop Group finally become a pop group?
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 26 February 2015
Bristol's post-punk provocateurs have released Citizen Zombie, their first album for 35 years. In 1975, they drew on dub, free-jazz and Baudrillard; 2015 finds singer ...
see also Essential Bop
see also Pigbag
see also Rip Rig and Panic
see also Mark Stewart
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