The New Banalists Orchestra

British performance group and experimental music ensemble, founded in 2011 by vocalist, pioneering post-punk musician and The Pop Group's founder Mark Stewart and British-born, NYC-based visual artist and curator Rupert Goldsworthy. The New Banalists presented several artworks, such as The Politics of Envy banner at New York's Illuminated Metropolis Gallery, and issued a manifesto: "TASTE IS A FORM OF PERSONAL CENSORSHIP. DENY THE POLITICS OF ENVY TECHNIQUE IS A REFUGE OF THE INSECURE SHADOW WAR." In 2011, they formed The New Balanists Orchestra and self-published a six-track Mammon mini-album via Bandcamp, mixed by Michael Rendall. The ensemble featured Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine of Crass fame, poet and White Panther Party activist John Sinclair, David Tibet of Current 93, Youth of Killing Joke, Zodiac Mindwarp and two special guests, ex-PiL guitarist Keith Levene and notorious drug smuggler Howard "Mr. Nice" Marks. Mark Stewart continued to develop the same concept on solo albums, releasing The Politics Of Envy CD/LP and a follow-up Exorcism Of Envy 2xLP/CD albums on Future Noise label in 2012. The New Banalists Rupert Goldsworthy Mark Stewart The New Banalists Orchestra Core John Sinclair (2) Mark Stewart Youth David Tibet Zodiac Youth