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Mayo Thompson

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Mayo Thompson
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Born 1944
Country

Discography

Solo

The Red Crayola

Main article: Discography

With Art & Language

Main article: The Red Crayola with Art & Language

With Pere Ubu

Technical

Recorded Released Artist Release Notes
1968-02-12/03-09 1968-05 The Red Krayola God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
1968-03-08 Johndavid Bartlett Mother's Milk demo session lost [1]
1970-02/? 1970 Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt to His Father produced with Frank Davis and Roger Romano
1975-09(?) 1976-06 Art & Language Corrected Slogans
1979-01 The Monochrome Set He's Frank / Alphaville produced with Geoff Travis [2]
1978-05/11-13 1979-02 Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material produced with Geoff Travis [3]
1979-03 The Red Crayola Soldier-Talk produced with Geoff Travis
1979-03 1979-04 The Raincoats Fairytale In The Supermarket produced with Geoff Travis [4]
1979-04-27 Stiff Little Fingers Gotta Gettaway produced with Geoff Travis [5]
1979 Scritti Politti 4 'A Sides' produced with Dave Anderson, Gary Lucas, Geoff Travis, Scritti Politti [6]
1979-04 1979-06 Cabaret Voltaire Nag Nag Nag produced with Geoff Travis [7]
1979 The Raincoats The Raincoats produced with Geoff Travis, The Raincoats [8]
1979-10-05 The Red Crayola Micro-Chips & Fish produced with Geoff Travis
1979-10 1980-01 The Fall Fiery Jack produced with Geoff Travis, The Fall [9]
1980-01-17 1980 James Blood Ulmer Are You Glad To Be In America? produced with Geoff Travis, James Blood Ulmer [10]
1980 James Blood Ulmer Are You Glad To Be In America? assistant producer, mixing with Geoff Travis [11]
1980-05-08 1980-07-09 The Fall How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' produced with Geoff Travis, The Fall [12]
1980-11 The Fall Grotesque (After The Gramme) produced (Side A) with Geoff Travis [13]
1980-08-30 1980-11-17 Blue Orchids The Flood / Disney Boys produced with Geoff Travis, Blue Orchids [14]
1981-01 Virgin Prunes Twenty Tens assistant producer [15]
1980-12-18 1981-03-27 Blue Orchids Work produced with Geoff Travis, Blue Orchids [16]
1981-05 The Red Crayola with Art & Language Kangaroo? produced with Adam Kidron, Epic Soundtracks, Lora Logic, The Red Crayola
1982 The Balcony The Lizard Hunt producer [17]
1986-08 1986 Shop Assistants Don't Wanna Be Friends With You produced with Shop Assistants [18]
1986-11 Shop Assistants Shop Assistants produced with Shop Assistants [19]
1987-04-24 The Wishing Stones New Ways producer (A Side) [20]
1987-06 Primal Scream Gentle Tuesday producer [21]
1987 Phil Wilson Waiting For A Change producer [22]
1987-06 Felt Poem Of The River producer [23]
1987-10-05 Primal Scream Sonic Flower Groove producer [24]
1987-05-19/20 1987 The Chills House With A Hundred Rooms producer, mixing [25]
1987-05/07-27 1987 The Chills Brave Words producer [26]
1987 Blow-Up Good For Me producer (A Side) [27]
1987-06 1988 The Chills Wet Blanket producer [28]
1989 Shanks Masterbait producer [29]
1990-09 Blue Guitars While The Time Away producer (A Side) [30]
1989-07-17/21 1991-06-01 COWWS' Quintett Seite A Seite A co-producer [31]
1992 Loretta & The Chipmunks Cakeland producer [32]
1994 Overpass Manhattan (Beach) producer [33]
1996 Emily's Sassy Lime Dippity Do-Nut producer [34]
2000 Jennifer Moon 50 Weeks Soundtrack production advisor/engineer with Tom Watson [35]
2001-03 2003 Stephanie Taylor Adria producer [36]
2011 Victim Victim producer, mixing [37][38]

Exhibitions

Title
2015 8th Floor
2016 ?
2019 Go to the Window
2020 Oily Works

Bibliography

Fiction

Title Notes
2018 Art, Mystery novella

Essays

Publication Notes
1976 The Fox 3 "Autopatripassionata", "Review: Convoy", "Natural Alliances", "For the Sensitive"
1976 Art-Language Vol. 3, No. 4
1977 Art-Language Vol. 4, No. 2
1978 Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State "Baghdad on the Bayous?"[39] on the '60s Houston music scene
1986 Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs "Gorki & Co." on Maxim Gorky
1987 Albert Oehlen: Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim
1990 "Vitrinization"[40]
2001 Michael Krebber: Apothekerman
2003 Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures "A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"
2012 Whitney Biennial 2012 catalog "A Manifesto for The Red Krayola"

Artwork

Publication Notes
1970 Rangoon illustrations for short stories
2018 Ground Floor / 8th Floor exhibition catalog, with Michael Krebber

Interviews / documentation

Publication Notes
1968 Mother Magazine, No. 2 interview
1975 Robert Rauschenberg in Israel[41] appears in photographs
1978 Comstock Lode, No. 4 interview
1979 NME, July 21[42][43] interview
1979 Vague 2 interview
1981 Sounds, August interview
1981 Vinyl, No. 6 interview
1985 Virgin Prunes: The Faculties of a Broken Heart[44] interview
1989 R.O.O.M.[45] interview
2005 Studio Voice Magazine, June interview
2006 PSA, Iss. 9[46] interview
2007 Fuck Forever: Der Tod des Indie-Rock interview
2022 Keep All Your Friends interview, oral history

Filmography

Technical

Year Title Notes
1966 co-director; unfinished film with Frederick Barthelme (destroyed)
1975 Mostly About Rauschenberg co-director; documentary
1986 The Queen Is Dead producer; The Smiths music video;
1987 The Last of England associate producer

Music

Year Title Role Director
1976 Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors performer, music Art & Language
1977 Struggle in New York performer, music Zoran Popović
1983 Born in Flames song: Born in Flames Lizzie Borden
1987 The Last of England song: Disco Death Derek Jarman
1996 Japan in Paris in L.A. music Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
2016 Far East of Eden sound design Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
2016 Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth" score Michael Smith

Appearances in documentaries

Year Title
1979 South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade[47]
1995 The Red Krayola in Tokyo
2005 God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
2007 Psychedelic Revolution '67
2009 Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade[48]

Production / technical

1960s

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

The Raincoats - Fairytale In The Supermarket

The Red Crayola - Soldier-Talk

Stiff Little Fingers - Gotta Gettaway / Bloody Sunday

Scritti Politti - 4 A Sides

The Raincoats - The Raincoats

1980s

James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad To Be In America?

  • Assistant produced for Rough Trade (with Roger Trilling, producer James Blood Ulmer)
  • Recorded January 17, 1980

1990s

2000s

References

  1. God Bless 2011 booklet
  2. https://www.discogs.com/release/947813-The-Monochrome-Set-Hes-Frank-Alphaville
  3. https://www.discogs.com/release/868401-Stiff-Little-Fingers-Inflammable-Material
  4. https://www.discogs.com/release/449412-The-Raincoats-Fairytale-In-The-Supermarket
  5. https://www.discogs.com/release/841955-Stiff-Little-Fingers-Gotta-Gettaway
  6. https://www.discogs.com/release/401764-Scritti-Politti-4-A-Sides
  7. https://www.discogs.com/release/54221-Cabaret-Voltaire-Nag-Nag-Nag
  8. https://www.discogs.com/release/380654-The-Raincoats-The-Raincoats
  9. https://www.discogs.com/release/427991-The-Fall-Fiery-Jack
  10. https://www.discogs.com/release/1196557-James-Blood-Ulmer-Are-You-Glad-To-Be-In-America
  11. https://www.discogs.com/release/1656236-James-Blood-Ulmer-Are-You-Glad-To-Be-In-America
  12. https://www.discogs.com/release/450894-The-Fall-How-I-Wrote-Elastic-Man
  13. https://www.discogs.com/release/371990-The-Fall-Grotesque-After-The-Gramme
  14. https://www.discogs.com/release/771054-Blue-Orchids-The-Flood-Disney-Boys
  15. https://www.discogs.com/release/359304-Virgin-Prunes-Twenty-Tens
  16. https://www.discogs.com/release/384430-Blue-Orchids-Work
  17. https://www.discogs.com/release/1763736-The-Balcony-The-Lizard-Hunt
  18. https://www.discogs.com/release/576515-Shop-Assistants-I-Dont-Wanna-Be-Friends-With-You
  19. https://www.discogs.com/release/576493-Shop-Assistants-Shop-Assistants
  20. https://www.discogs.com/release/3630385-The-Wishing-Stones-New-Ways
  21. https://www.discogs.com/release/215935-Primal-Scream-Gentle-Tuesday
  22. https://www.discogs.com/release/1456874-Phil-Wilson-Waiting-For-A-Change
  23. https://www.discogs.com/release/383237-Felt-Poem-Of-The-River
  24. https://www.discogs.com/release/908231-Primal-Scream-Sonic-Flower-Groove
  25. https://www.discogs.com/release/576053-The-Chills-House-With-A-Hundred-Rooms
  26. https://www.discogs.com/release/397956-The-Chills-Brave-Words
  27. https://www.discogs.com/release/1282019-Blow-Up-Good-For-Me
  28. https://www.discogs.com/release/791458-The-Chills-Wet-Blanket
  29. https://www.discogs.com/release/2320014-Shanks-Masterbait
  30. https://www.discogs.com/release/910448-Blue-Guitars-While-The-Time-Away
  31. https://www.discogs.com/release/2255386-COWWS-Quintett-Seite-A-Seite-A
  32. https://www.discogs.com/release/2438008-Loretta-The-Chipmunks-Cakeland
  33. https://www.discogs.com/release/1716556-Overpass-Manhattan-Beach
  34. https://www.discogs.com/release/1031282-Emilys-Sassy-Lime-Dippity-Do-Nut
  35. https://soundcloud.com/expansivelove/sets/50-weeks-soundtrack
  36. https://www.discogs.com/release/9198125-Stephanie-Taylor-Adria
  37. https://www.discogs.com/release/8158850-Victim-Victim
  38. https://onlinevictim.bandcamp.com/album/victim
  39. http://www.scarletdukes.com/st/tmhou_mayoart.html
  40. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/
  41. https://archive.org/details/robertrauschenbe00raus_5
  42. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/V5UAAOSwUSles1Qg/s-l1600.jpg
  43. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sCsAAOSw4ytes1Qr/s-l1600.jpg
  44. https://tape-mag.com/The_Faculties_of_a_broken_heart+Virgin_Prunes+ARTISTS_und_BANDS_LITERATURE-1-1-291-5.html
  45. https://www.instagram.com/p/BEI6zrgxPth/
  46. https://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/the-pseud-mag-archives/psa-mayo-thompson
  47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loydtQRR4eA
  48. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKE-hDDgZQ