Mayo Thompson


Mayo Thompson

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Born	1944
Country

Discography

Solo

Corky's Debt to His Father

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

	Title	Publication	Notes
1976	"Autopatripassionata" "Review: Convoy" "Natural Alliances" "For the Sensitive"	The Fox No. 3
1976		Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4	unspecified contribution
1977		Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2	unspecified contribution
1978	"Baghdad on the Bayous?"^[39]	Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State	on the '60s Houston music scene
1986	"Gorki & Co."	Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs	on Maxim Gorky
1987		Albert Oehlen: Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim
1990	"Vitrinization"^[40]		unpublished
2001		Michael Krebber: Apothekerman
2003	"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"	Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures
2012	"A Manifesto for The Red Krayola"	Whitney Biennial 2012 catalog	on 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
	Common Knowledge, No. 1^[44]	interview
1980	Step by Step, No. 1^[45]	interview
1981	Sounds, August	interview
1981	Vinyl, No. 6	interview
1985	Virgin Prunes: The Faculties of a Broken Heart^[46]	interview
1989	R.O.O.M.^[47]	interview
2005	Studio Voice Magazine, June	interview
2006	PSA, Iss. 9^[48]	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^[49]
1995	The Red Krayola in Tokyo
2005	God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
2007	Psychedelic Revolution '67^[50]
2009	Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade^[51]

References

[1] God Bless 2011 booklet

[2] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/947813-The-Monochrome-Set-Hes-Frank-Alphaville

[3] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/868401-Stiff-Little-Fingers-Inflammable-Material

[4] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/449412-The-Raincoats-Fairytale-In-The-Supermarket

[5] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/841955-Stiff-Little-Fingers-Gotta-Gettaway

[6] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/401764-Scritti-Politti-4-A-Sides

[7] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/54221-Cabaret-Voltaire-Nag-Nag-Nag

[8] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/380654-The-Raincoats-The-Raincoats

[9] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/427991-The-Fall-Fiery-Jack

[10] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1196557-James-Blood-Ulmer-Are-You-Glad-To-Be-In-America

[11] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1656236-James-Blood-Ulmer-Are-You-Glad-To-Be-In-America

[12] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/450894-The-Fall-How-I-Wrote-Elastic-Man

[13] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/371990-The-Fall-Grotesque-After-The-Gramme

[14] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/771054-Blue-Orchids-The-Flood-Disney-Boys

[15] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/359304-Virgin-Prunes-Twenty-Tens

[16] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/384430-Blue-Orchids-Work

[17] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1763736-The-Balcony-The-Lizard-Hunt

[18] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/576515-Shop-Assistants-I-Dont-Wanna-Be-Friends-With-You

[19] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/576493-Shop-Assistants-Shop-Assistants

[20] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/3630385-The-Wishing-Stones-New-Ways

[21] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/215935-Primal-Scream-Gentle-Tuesday

[22] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1456874-Phil-Wilson-Waiting-For-A-Change

[23] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/383237-Felt-Poem-Of-The-River

[24] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/908231-Primal-Scream-Sonic-Flower-Groove

[25] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/576053-The-Chills-House-With-A-Hundred-Rooms

[26] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/397956-The-Chills-Brave-Words

[27] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1282019-Blow-Up-Good-For-Me

[28] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/791458-The-Chills-Wet-Blanket

[29] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/2320014-Shanks-Masterbait

[30] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/910448-Blue-Guitars-While-The-Time-Away

[31] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/2255386-COWWS-Quintett-Seite-A-Seite-A

[32] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/2438008-Loretta-The-Chipmunks-Cakeland

[33] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1716556-Overpass-Manhattan-Beach

[34] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/1031282-Emilys-Sassy-Lime-Dippity-Do-Nut

[35] ttps://soundcloud.com/expansivelove/sets/50-weeks-soundtrack

[36] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/9198125-Stephanie-Taylor-Adria

[37] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/8158850-Victim-Victim

[38] ttps://onlinevictim.bandcamp.com/album/victim

[39] ttp://www.scarletdukes.com/st/tmhou_mayoart.html

[40] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/

[41] ttps://archive.org/details/robertrauschenbe00raus_5

[42] ttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/V5UAAOSwUSles1Qg/s-l1600.jpg

[43] ttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sCsAAOSw4ytes1Qr/s-l1600.jpg

[44] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/1zYSIgSuB3/

[45] ttps://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/albums/721577181894308

[46] ttps://tape-mag.com/The_Faculties_of_a_broken_heart+Virgin_Prunes+ARTISTS_und_BANDS_LITERATURE-1-1-291-5.html

[47] ttps://www.instagram.com/p/BEI6zrgxPth/

[48] ttps://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/the-pseud-mag-archives/psa-mayo-thompson

[49] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loydtQRR4eA

[50] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmxCiwDlRDo

[51] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKE-hDDgZQ

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