The Pop Group - Where There's A Will (Official Video) video free download

Taken from the album 'Cabinet of Curiosities'. 'Where There’s A Will' has been remastered from original tapes & available on the new archival collection 'Cabinet of Curiosities' on LP, CD & Digital on release October 19th!

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Video by Rupert Goldsworthy

Originally released as 7” single in 1980 and unavailable for several decades, Where There’s A Will has been remastered from original tape for reissue as the opening track of The Pop Group’s brand new compilation of rarities Cabinet of Curiosities.

An incendiary dance, it revels as much as it rebels. The song unleashes a feral form of torn, breakneck agit-funk with its potent urgency and savagely scathing vitality undimmed since its original release. A breathless torrent of writhing deviant disco bassline and volcanic free jazz sax, the song is electrified by Mark Stewart’s vocals, a rasping blitz of politically-charged calls for defiance and solidarity. The significance of the message contained within the unruly party atmosphere is as essential now as it was back then, as Mark Stewart explains, “MASSIVE RESISTANCE is what Where There’s A Will is about and in this age of hyper anxiety and scorched earth it’s as relevant as ever to quote myself, the lyrics at the end say ‘and if we must die let it be like hogs…our backs against the wall… but fighting back’.”

The countercultural militant message is delivered as a hysterical, riotous spree, as Gareth Sager (guitar, sax) explains, “The group’s best attempt to mix a message with a groove plus some real free playing. If you’re really unhinged you may be able to dance to this.”

The Where There’s A Will video, which reworks rare footage of the band performing the song on Belgian TV in 1980, has been realised by The Pop Group’s visual collaborator, NY based artist Rupert Goldsworthy, who says of the song, “In my opinion Dan Catsis plays the most crucial hard-funk bassline of the post punk era and it’s the masterpiece of The Pop Group’s repertoire. The track slices and re-dices the politico punk-funk genre two years before the herd. With mysterious lyrics, half poetic / half hectoring communiques from the front lines, it stands as The Pop Group’s raw, dirty, rambunctious, ecstatic epitaph.”

Goldsworthy goes on to explain that “the video riffs off The Pop Group’s oft-stated intent to do everything ‘differently’. Here everything is backwards. The video reflects the song’s original mutant marriage of Seventies hardcore old skool funk with brutalist agitprop rhetoric. It’s Good Times vs Apocalypse Now.”

Mark Stewart says of the video, “we are the children of the lens cannibal kids and Rupert Goldsworthy’s mashup madness truly reverses reality / the lunatics are taking over the asylum!!!!”

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