The Pop Group have been invited by Terry Hall to perform at a specially curated festival
Terry Hall presents Home Sessions for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021, on 31 July 2021.
The Pop Group will perform a brand new dub version of their timeless album Y with original producer and dub maestro Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell MBE. A true clash of titans, this exclusive performance will see visionary sound sculptor Dennis Bovell (recently awarded an MBE for his lifetime contribution to British Music) on stage with the post-punk iconoclasts The Pop Group – an event not to be missed.
Terry Hall presents Home Sessions will boast a line-up will include An Evening with Terry Hall, Roni Size, Daddy G (Massive Attack) & Queen Bee, UNKLE and the Eccentronic Research Council featuring Maxine Peake. Tickets are set to go on sale on Friday 25 June at 10am – https://coventry2021.co.uk/coming-soon/terry-hall-presents-home-sessions/
The Pop Group vs Dennis Bovell’s world premiere of Y in Dub will be an electrifying reinterpretation of Y, one of the era-defining releases of the post-punk period. Originally released on 20 April 1979, Y represents a stunning culmination of The Pop Group’s crucial nonconformity. The album was produced by Bovell, his first non-reggae project, their decision to collaborate with him is emblematic of the risk and range found on the original album, where tracks are adeptly moulded with reverb, delays, tape loops and a range of other studio treatments. The results corral all of the captivating mixing desk ingenuity that Bovell had been previously applying to UK reggae and lovers rock, making for a record that ventures into altogether unchartered territory.
Y in Dub is set for release on Mute, to register your interest and receive updates on the release, please go to: https://mute.ffm.to/yindub
31 July 2021 – The Pop Group vs Dennis Bovell: world premiere of Y in Dub at HMV Empire, Coventry – https://coventry2021.co.uk/what-s-on/home-sessions-the-pop-group-vs-dennis-bovell-world-premiere-of-y-in-dub/
RECENT PRAISE FOR THE POP GROUP
“Remains one of the most unsettling milestones of post-punk music” 9/10 Uncut
“On its 1979 release I admired it… now it sounds like the most vital, lifesaving racket on earth” 5/5 Record Collector
“Forty intervening years of post-punk and punk-funk have done nothing to dilute the shock… it sounds extraordinary” 4/5 MOJO
“This is a record of dire necessity, armed for combat against a long litany of ills” #35 ‘Top 100 Best Albums of the 1970s’ – Pitchfork
“A maelstrom of dub and distortion effects, a tempest of extremes.” ‘100 Most Important Records Ever Made’ – The Wire
‘Top 50 Best Post-Punk Albums Ever’ – Pop Matters
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