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

Collaborations

		Artist	Album	Tracks
1978-9	2021	Swell Maps	MayDay Signals	Deliverous Mistail — speech sample
1981	1981	Geisterfahrer	Fest Der Vielen Sinne	Zeit Der Chancen — guitar Madish Ahb'el — guitar
	1981	David Thomas & The Pedestrians	The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian	Man's Best Friend — accordion
1987	1987		The Last Of England (soundtrack)	Disco Death — co-writer, producer Broadway Boy — co-writer
	1987	Jörg Schlick & Megabody
1989	1991	COWWS' Quintett	Seite A Seite A	Die Goetheschneise — drum machine Nidda River Suite — drum machine Joséphine Leaps In — drum machine Funny Green Birds — vocals CQ - An Alle — drum machine
1989	1998	Rüdiger Carl	Book	Irène's Hot Four II Misterioso — vocals, lyrics Funny Green Birds — drum machine Der Nidder — drum machine Schwarzes Loch — vocals Cleopatra's Nose — co-writer
1991		with Diedrich Diederichsen		All Together Now — music
1993		with Michael Schirner		Buy Me (Pictures) / Buy Me (Stones) — music
	1997	Girl Friday	In the Beginning	co-writer, harmonica, piano
1997	1999	Stephen Prina	Push Comes to Love	Little Lips — lyrics
1998		with Mitchell Kane		Digital Man in a Digital House — music
	2000	Tom Watson	Country & Watson
	2003	Van Oehlen	Rock & Roll Is Here To Die	Tunnel — vocals Child — vocals In Dus Tree — vocals On — vocals R&R — vocals Tunnel Dub — vocals
	2003	Stephanie Taylor	Adria	guitar, producer
2003	2009	with Sven-Åke Johansson Quintett	Shotgun Wedding	writer, vocals
	2005	Mike Kelley / Scott Benzel	Day Is Done (soundtrack)	co-arranger, co-writer The Moaning Dead — guitar, sampler Owls Of Night (The Chicken Dance) — guitar My Purple Cave — Harpsichord

Technical

Main article: Records produced by Mayo Thompson

Film 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

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?"^[1]	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"^[2]		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 (authorship unconfirmed)

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^[3]	appears in photographs
1978	Comstock Lode, No. 4	interview
1979	NME, July 21^[4]^[5]	interview
1979	Vague 2	interview
	Common Knowledge, No. 1^[6]	interview
1980	Step by Step, No. 1^[7]	interview
1981	Sounds, August	interview
1981	Vinyl, No. 6	interview
1985	Virgin Prunes: The Faculties of a Broken Heart^[8]	interview
1989	R.O.O.M.^[9]	interview
2005	Studio Voice Magazine, June	interview
2006	PSA, Iss. 9^[10]	interview
2007	Fuck Forever: Der Tod des Indie-Rock	interview
2022	Keep All Your Friends	interview, oral history

Filmography

Technical

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

Appearances in documentaries

Year	Title
1979	South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade^[11]
1995	The Red Krayola in Tokyo
2005	God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
2007	Psychedelic Revolution '67^[12]
2009	Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade^[13]

References

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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