The Pop Group live in concert.
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The Pop Group

13
critic concert reviews
rock

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

72
%
Based on 
13
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 13 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Pop Group is rated as a watchable live performer, with shows that lack distinction.

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Latest Release

Live Y in Dub (15 March 2022)

Artist Info

Genre
rock
Origin
Bristol, United Kingdom (1977 - present)
Bio
The Pop Group are a post-punk band which formed in 1977 in Bristol, England. They consisted of Mark Stewart (vocals), John Waddington (guitar), Gareth Sager (guitar), Simon Underwood (bass) and Bruce Smith (drums).
Has Performed With
The Sexual Objects

Critic Concert Reviews

The Guardian (UK)

June 27, 2015
60
%
From Slaves’ semi-comic social observation to the Pop Group’s corrupted disco, the crowd gets smaller as the reception grows louder during a Saturday afternoon post-punk interlude

The Guardian (UK)

May 11, 2015
80
%
They were the cult adventurers who smashed together jazz-funk space dub and anti-capitalist agit-prop poetry with rabid punk vitriol.

The Independent (UK)

January 20, 2014
%
Of course they aren’t, but there was a certain catharsis to hear these survivors from the days when accepting corporate hand-outs would destroy a band’s credibility as artists have a dig.

The Guardian (UK)

January 19, 2014
100
%
Glasgow, Scotland

Express (UK)

September 12, 2010
%
Garage London, London, UK

Brighton's Finest (UK)

February 24, 2017
%
Despite a split back in ’81, the band have returned from the dead as it were and have returned to bring their nightmarish sound to the 21st century.

Undertoner (Denmark)

November 30, 2016
50
%
Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark on November 29, 2016

Past critic reviews published in

Glide Magazine (USA), Glide Magazine (USA), Twin Cities Media (USA), Grateful Web (USA), Grateful Web (USA) and more

Image Credit

Paul Narvaez [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons