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MADE HIS MARK

I was both surprised and somewhat saddened to come across your obit on Mark Stewart [Take 314].

The Pop Group were a highly individual outfit, and I was fortunate to catch them live a couple of times. Firstly, a double-header with This Heat back in the day at the Place Theatre, Euston, and boy, you couldn’t wish for a more unique approach to sonics than these two outfits provided. Secondly, a few years ago at the tiny club Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar (now defunct) in Brighton, where they played a storming set that to my ears, was superior even to my initial experience of them. Mark Stewart was on fine form and a commanding presence, full of bonhomie

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