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== Discography ==
== Discography ==
=== Solo ===
=== Solo ===
* {{RLink|Corky}}
* {{RLink|Corky}}
=== The Red Crayola ===
 
Main article: [[Discography]]
=== Groups ===
=== With Art & Language ===
 
Main article: [[The Red Crayola with Art & Language]]
* [[The Red Crayola]] (1966-present)
=== With Pere Ubu ===
** Main article: [[Discography]]
* {{RLink|Art}}
* [[Saddlesore]] (1970)
* {{RLink|Bailing}}
** {{RLink|Old}}
* [[The Rockin' Blue Diamonds]] (1972)
* [[Art & Language]] (1973-1977)
** Main article: [[The Red Crayola with Art & Language]]
* [[Pere Ubu]] (1980-1981)
** {{RLink|Art}}
** {{RLink|Bailing}}
* Megabody (1986-1990)
** {{RLink|Jorg}}
** {{RLink|Wild}}


=== Collaborations ===
=== Collaborations ===
* {{RLink|Ludwig}} (Moebius, Conny Plank)
* ''The Last of England'' (soundtrack)
* [[Seite A Seite A|''Seite A Seite A'']] (COWWS Quintet)
* {{RLink|Book}} (COWWS Quintet)
* "[[All Together Now]]"  (Diedrich Diederichsen)
* [[Buy Me (Pictures) / Buy Me (Stones)|''Buy Me (Pictures) / Buy Me (Stones)'']]  (Michael Schirner)
* {{RLink|Kunst}} (Barnaby O'Rourke, Lars Rudolph)
* {{RLink|Beginning}} (Tom Watson, Alexis Hall)
* "[[Little Lips]]" (Stephen Prina)
* "[[Digital Man in a Digital House]]" (Mitchell Kane)
* [[Country & Watson|''Country & Watson'']] (Tom Watson)
* [[Combat de Boxe|''Combat de Boxe'']] (Anita Pace)
* [[Rock & Roll Is Here To Die|''Rock & Roll Is Here To Die'']] (Van Oehlen)
* {{RLink|Shotgun}} (Sven-Åke Johansson Quintett)
* ''Day Is Done'' (soundtrack)
=== Music production ===
Main article: [[Records produced by Mayo Thompson]]
== Exhibitions ==
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Title
!City
!Gallery
!Dates
|-
|{{flagdeco|US}}
|''[[8th Floor]]''
|New York City
|Greene Naftali
|October 8 – November 7, 2015
|-
|{{flagdeco|DE}}
|[[?|''?'']]
|Berlin
|Galerie Buchholz
|November 11 – December 23, 2016
|-
|{{flagdeco|DE}}
|[[Go to the Window|''Go to the Window'']]
|Berlin
|Galerie Buchholz
|June 28 – August 17, 2019
|-
|{{flagdeco|US}}
|''[[Oily Works]]''
|Los Angeles
|House of Gaga
|November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021
|}
=== Exhibition catalogs ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!
!
!Cover
!Publication
!Notes
|-
|2018
|[[File:8th-Floor-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[Ground Floor / 8th Floor]]'' (2018)
|with Michael Krebber
|}
== Bibliography ==
=== Fiction ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cover
!Title
!Notes
|-
|2018
|[[File:Art-Mystery-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[Art, Mystery]]''
|novella
|-
|2023
|[[File:After-Math-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[After Math|After Math: Art, Mystery, Part II]]''
|novella
|}
=== Illustrations ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
!
!Artist
!Cover
!Album
!Title
!Tracks
!Publication
!Notes
|-
| rowspan="3" |1970
| rowspan="3" |[[File:Rangoon-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''Rangoon''
| rowspan="3" |''[[Rangoon]]'' (1970)
|various short stories by [[Frederick Barthelme]]
|-
|"Regular Everything"
|
|-
|-
|1978-9
|"Gregory Park"
|2021
|Swell Maps
|MayDay Signals
|
|
* Deliverous Mistail — speech sample
|-
|-
|1981
|1971
|1981
|
|Geisterfahrer
|"[[Regular Everything II]]"
|Fest Der Vielen Sinne
|unpublished
|
|-
|1972
|[[File:Fiction-1-3-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"The Cost of Everything"
|''Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3'' (1972)
|short story by William H. Gass from ''The Tunnel''<ref>https://wustl.app.box.com/s/gm6tc0muqwrkyonq2jfu0rroghhzg4c2</ref><ref>https://thetunnelat25.com/the-tunnel-a-chronology-bibliography/</ref>
|-
|1972
|
|"A Way of Knowing"
|''The Texas Observer'', May 12, 1972
|book review<ref>https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_05_12_issue.pdf#page=12</ref>
|-
|1972
|
|"Music, Women and Guns"
|''The Texas Observer'', June 12, 1972
|article by Chet Flippo<ref>https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_06_09_issue.pdf#page=11</ref>
|-
|1972
|
|"The Will to Live"
|''The Texas Observer'', July 7, 1972
|article by Michael Anderson<ref>https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_07_07_issue.pdf#page=21</ref>
|-
|1972
|
|"The Santa Claus Bank Robbert"
|''The Texas Observer'', October 20, 1972
|book review by Bob Cochran<ref>https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_10_20_issue.pdf#page=20</ref>
|-
|1973
|
|"Woman", "Man"
|''The Texas Observer'', April 13, 1973
|<ref>https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1973_04_13_issue.pdf#page=15</ref>
|}
 
=== Essays/non-fiction ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Cover
!Title
!Publication
!Notes
!
|-
| rowspan="4" |1976
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Fox-1-3-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Autopatripassionata"
| rowspan="4" |[[The Fox No. 3|''The Fox 3'']] (May 1976)
|[https://ubu.com/media/text/fox/Fox3.pdf#page=91 '''Full article''']
|with [[Christine Kozlov]]
|-
|"Review: Convoy"
|[https://ubu.com/media/text/fox/Fox3.pdf#page=99 '''Full article''']
|
|-
|"Natural Alliances"
|[https://ubu.com/media/text/fox/Fox3.pdf#page=187 '''Full article''']
|
|-
|"For the Sensitive"
|[https://ubu.com/media/text/fox/Fox3.pdf#page=187 '''Full article''']
|
|-
|1976
|[[File:AL-3-4-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|
|[[Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4|''Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4'']] (October 1976)
|
|
|
* Zeit Der Chancen — guitar
* Madish Ahb'el — guitar
|-
|-
|1977
|[[File:AL-4-2-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|
|
|1981
|[[Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2|''Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2'']] (October 1977)
|David Thomas & The Pedestrians
|
|The Sound Of The Sand And Other Songs Of The Pedestrian
|
|-
|1978
|[[File:Howdy-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Baghdad on the Bayous?"
|[[Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State|''Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State'']] (October 1978)
|[https://archive.org/details/howdy-from-texas/page/17/mode/1up '''Full article''']
|on the '60s Houston music scene
|-
|1980
|[[File:Step-by-Step-zine-1980-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Two men and a bird adrift in a sinking life boat... Last chance for a conversation..."
|''Step by Step'' (1980)
|[https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/10153594863/in/album-72157718189437608/ '''Full article''']
|with Ian Penman
|-
|1986
|[[File:Gorki-Co-front.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Gorki & Co."
|''[[Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs]]'' (1986)
|
|
* Man's Best Friend — accordion
|on Maxim Gorky
|-
|-
|1987
|1987
|[[File:Unappetitlich-ist-das-Baden-im-Schleim-front.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|
|''Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim'' (1987)
|
|with [[Albert Oehlen]]
|-
|1987
|1987
|[[File:Durch-3-4-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"What"
|''Durch 3/4'' (1987)
|
|
|The Last Of England (soundtrack)
|
|
* [[Disco Death]] — co-writer, producer
* [[Broadway Boy]] — co-writer
|-
|-
|1987
|[[File:Polytexte-1987-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|
|
|''Polytexte: The Words Meet the Objects'' (1987)
|
|<ref>https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31569060590</ref>
|-
|1987
|1987
|Jörg Schlick & Megabody
|
|
|"Acht Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen"
|
|
|with Martin Kippenberger and [[Albert Oehlen]]<ref>http://ehfilm.de/ehf-katalog/polytexte.html</ref>
|-
|1987
|[[File:Spex-1987-09-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Lasst sie CDs fressen!"
|''Spex September 1987''
|[https://archive.org/details/Spex0987KoelnFanzine87OCR/page/n58/mode/1up '''Full article''']
|
|
|-
|-
|1989
|1989
|1991
|[[File:Herold-Multiplied-Objects-front.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|COWWS' Quintett
|"Some Things About Multiples"
|[[Seite A Seite A]]
|''Georg Herold: Multiplied Objects and Prints'' (1989)
|
|
* Die Goetheschneise — drum machine
|exhibition catalog
* Nidda River Suite — drum machine
* Joséphine Leaps In — drum machine
* [[Funny Green Birds]] — vocals
* CQ - An Alle — drum machine
|-
|-
|1989
|1989
|1998
|[[File:Büttner-Das-Wichtige-Schwarzweiß-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|Rüdiger Carl
|
|[[Book]]
|''Werner Büttner: Das Wichtige Schwarzweiß''
|
|
* Irène's Hot Four II
|exhibition catalog<ref>https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31655802787</ref>
* [[Misterioso]] — vocals, lyrics
* Funny Green Birds — drum machine
* Der Nidder — drum machine
* [[Schwarzes Loch]] — vocals
* Cleopatra's Nose — co-writer
|-
|-
|1989
|[[File:Spex-1989-03-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Was ist eigentlich... Indie-Musik?"
|''Spex March 1989''
|
|
|1997
|[[Girl Friday]]
|[[In the Beginning]]
|
|
* co-writer, harmonica, piano
|-
|-
|1997
|1989
|1999
|[[File:Spex-1989-08-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|[[Stephen Prina]]
|"Singles"
|{{RLink|Push}}
|''Spex August 1989''
|[https://rateyourmusic.com/list/dotclub/mayo-thompson-reviews-1989-singles/ '''Full article''']
|short reviews of 60 singles
|-
|1990
|[[File:Krebber-Apothekerman-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Vitrinization"
|''Michael Krebber: Apothekerman'' (2001)
|
|
* [[Little Lips]] — lyrics
|<ref>From 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/</ref>
|-
|-
|1991
|[[File:Cowws-Quintett-Seite-A-Seite-A-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|Liner notes
|''Cowws' Quintett - Seite A Seite A'' (1991)
|
|
|2000
|CD
|[[Tom Watson]]
|-
|[[Country & Watson]]
|1991
|[[File:Texte-zur-Kunst-02-1991-03-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Blind Mapping"
|''Texte zur Kunst No. 2'' (March 1991)
|
|<ref>https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/2/</ref>
|-
|1992
|
|
|"'Merlin Carpenter' ['MC']"
|(November 1992)
|[http://www.merlincarpenter.com/mayo.htm '''Full article''']
|exhibition handout
|-
|-
|1995
|
|"Kauft Reagan Dokoupil?"
|''Spex'' (October? 1995)
|
|
|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
|-
|-
|1998
|
|
|''Sarah Seager: Proposal for Installation with Sarong Pants...'' (1998)
|
|
|2003
|exhibition catalog<ref>https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21130077270001551</ref><ref>https://worldcat.org/title/42249767</ref>
|Stephanie Taylor
|-
|Adria
|1999
|[[File:InterCommunication-30-1999-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|"Sentimental Passage?: On an Audio and Visual Collaboration"
|''InterCommunication No. 30'' (Autumn 1999)
|
|
* guitar, producer
|with Bruce Yonemoto<ref>https://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic030/contents_e.html</ref>
|-
|-
|2003
|2003
|2009
|[[File:Hommage-to-Martin-Kippenberger-front.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|with Sven-Åke Johansson Quintett
|"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"
|{{RLink|Shotgun}}
|''Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures'' (2003)
|
|
|
* writer, vocals
|}
 
== Filmography ==
 
=== Director ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!
!Film
!min
!Notes
|-
|-
|1966
|
|
|2005
|[[Unfinished film (1966)|Unknown title]]
|Mike Kelley / Scott Benzel
|Day Is Done (Soundtrack)
|
|
* co-arranger, co-writer
|unfinished film with [[Frederick Barthelme]]
* The Moaning Dead — guitar, sampler
|-
* Owls Of Night (The Chicken Dance) — guitar
|1975
* My Purple Cave — Harpsichord
|[[File:Mostly-About-Rauschenberg-still.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[Mostly About Rauschenberg]]''
|50
|unreleased documentary on artist [[Robert Rauschenberg]]
|}
|}
=== Technical ===
Main article: [[Records produced by Mayo Thompson]]


=== Film music ===
=== Film music ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Year
!Title
!
!Film
!Role
!Role
!min
!Director
!Director
|-
|1974
|[[File:Weiner-Done-To-1974-still.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[Done To]]''
|"melodic noise"
|23
|Lawrence Weiner
|-
|-
|1976
|1976
|{{RLink|Nine}}
|[[File:Nine-Gross-and-Conspicuous-Errors-ad.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|performer, music
|''[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors]]''
|music
|24
|[[Art & Language]]
|[[Art & Language]]
|-
|-
|1977
|1977
|{{RLink|Struggle}}
|[[File:Struggle-poster.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|performer, music
|''[[Struggle in New York]]''
|music
|55
|Zoran Popović
|Zoran Popović
|-
|-
|1983
|1983
|[[Born in Flames (film)|Born in Flames]]
|[[File:Borden-Born-in-Flames-1983-poster.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|song: [[Born in Flames]]
|[[Born in Flames (film)|''Born in Flames'']]
|song: "[[Born in Flames]]" (with The Red Crayola)
|80
|Lizzie Borden
|Lizzie Borden
|-
|-
|1987
|1987
|[[The Last of England (film)|The Last of England]]
|[[File:The-Last-of-England-poster.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|song: [[Disco Death]]
|[[The Last of England (film)|''The Last of England'']]
|song: "[[Disco Death]]" (with Albert Oehlen)
|87
|Derek Jarman
|Derek Jarman
|-
|-
|1996
|1996
|[[Japan in Paris in L.A. (film)|Japan in Paris in L.A.]]
|[[File:Yonemoto-Japan-in-Paris-in-LA-title.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|music
|[[Japan in Paris in L.A. (film)|''Japan in Paris in L.A.'']]
|music (with The Red Krayola)
|30
|Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
|Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
|-
|-
|2016
|2001
|[[Far East of Eden]]
|[[File:Poledna-Actualité-2001-still.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|sound design
|''Actualité''
|Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
|music (with The Red Krayola)
|9
|Mathias Poledna
|-
|-
|2016
|2006
|{{RLink|Excuse}}
|[[File:Portal-Excursion-title.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|score
|''[[Portal Excursion]]''
|music
|9
|Michael Smith
|Michael Smith
|}
== Exhibitions ==
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Title
|-
|-
|2015
|2015
|{{RLink|8th}}
|[[File:Fountain-of-Youth-front.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|''[[Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth"]]''
|score
|20
|Michael Smith
|-
|-
|2016
|2016
|[[?]]
|[[File:Far-East-of-Eden-title.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|-
|[[Far East of Eden|''Far East of Eden'']]
|2019
|sound design
|[[Go to the Window]]
|24
|-
|Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
|2020
|{{RLink|Oily}}
|}
|}
== Bibliography ==


=== Fiction ===
=== Performer/actor ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!
!
!Title
!Film
!Notes
!Role
|-
|2018
|{{RLink|Mystery}}
|novella
|}
 
=== Essays ===
{| class="wikitable"
!
!
!Title
!Director
!Publication
!Notes
|-
|-
|1976
|1976
|"Autopatripassionata"
|[[File:Nine-Gross-and-Conspicuous-Errors-ad.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
 
|''[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors]]''
"Review: Convoy"
|performer with Art & Language
 
|24
"Natural Alliances"
|[[Art & Language]]
 
"For the Sensitive"
|[[The Fox No. 3]]
|
|-
|1976
|
|[[Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4]]
|unspecified contribution
|-
|-
|1977
|1977
|
|[[File:Struggle-poster.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|[[Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2]]
|''[[Struggle in New York]]''
|unspecified contribution
|performer with Art & Language
|55
|Zoran Popović
|-
|-
|1978
|1980
|"[[Baghdad on the Bayous?]]"<ref>http://www.scarletdukes.com/st/tmhou_mayoart.html</ref>
|[[File:Portrait-video-front.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|{{RLink|Howdy}}
|''[[Ghent music video]]''
|on the '60s Houston music scene
|performer with The Red Crayola
|-
|1986
|"Gorki & Co."
|{{RLink|Gorki}}
|on Maxim Gorky
|-
|1987
|
|
|Albert Oehlen: Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim
|
|
|-
|-
|1990
|1981
|"Vitrinization"<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/</ref>
|
|unpublished
|-
|2001
|
|Michael Krebber: Apothekerman
|
|
|''Urgh! A Music War''
|performer with Pere Ubu
|121
|Derek Burbidge
|-
|-
|2003
|1991
|"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"
|[[File:Von-Bonin-Merry-Pilgrimage-still-1.gif|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures
|''Die Fröhliche Wallfahrt (The Merry Pilgrimage)''
|
|actor
|-
|16
|2012
|Cosima von Bonin
|"[[A Manifesto for The Red Krayola]]"
|[[Whitney Biennial 2012]] catalog
|on The Red Krayola (authorship unconfirmed)
|}
|}


=== Artwork ===
=== Producer ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!
!
!Publication
!Title
!Role
!Notes
!Notes
|-
|-
|1970
|1986
|{{RLink|Rangoon}}
|[[File:The-Queen-is-Dead-Smiths-title.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|illustrations for short stories
|''The Queen Is Dead''
|producer
|The Smiths music video directed by Derek Jarman
|-
|-
|2018
|1987
|{{RLink|Ground}}
|[[File:The-Last-of-England-poster.jpg|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|exhibition catalog, with Michael Krebber
|[[The Last of England (film)|''The Last of England'']]
|associate producer
|film directed by Derek Jarman
|}
|}


=== Interviews / documentation ===
=== Documentary appearances ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!
!Title
!Director
!
!
!Publication
!Notes
|-
|1968
|Mother Magazine, No. 2
|interview
|-
|1975
|Robert Rauschenberg in Israel<ref>https://archive.org/details/robertrauschenbe00raus_5</ref>
|appears in photographs
|-
|1978
|Comstock Lode, No. 4
|interview
|-
|-
|1979
|1979
|NME, July 21<ref>https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/V5UAAOSwUSles1Qg/s-l1600.jpg</ref><ref>https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sCsAAOSw4ytes1Qr/s-l1600.jpg</ref>
|[[File:South-Bank-South-S2-E2-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview
|''South Bank Show'' S2E02: "Rough Trade"
|Geoff Dunlop
|{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loydtQRR4eA&t=840s}}
|-
|-
|1979
|1994
|Vague 2
|[[File:Tokyo-interview-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview
|''[[The Red Krayola in Tokyo]]'' (1995)
|Takeshi Kimi
|{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrL1Jms-xzk}}
|-
|-
|1998
|
|''Lost in Music: Chicago Connections''
|Christoph Dreher & Ellen El Malki
|
|
|Common Knowledge, No. 1<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/1zYSIgSuB3/</ref>
|interview
|-
|-
|1980
|2000
|Step by Step, No. 1<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/albums/72157718189437608 https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/albums/721577181894308]</ref>
|[[File:Circuit-9-interview-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview
|''[[Circuit 9]]''
|-
|
|1981
|{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmknAXqdNHE}}
|Sounds, August
|interview
|-
|1981
|Vinyl, No. 6
|interview
|-
|1985
|Virgin Prunes: The Faculties of a Broken Heart<ref>https://tape-mag.com/The_Faculties_of_a_broken_heart+Virgin_Prunes+ARTISTS_und_BANDS_LITERATURE-1-1-291-5.html</ref>
|interview
|-
|1989
|R.O.O.M.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/BEI6zrgxPth/</ref>
|interview
|-
|-
|2005
|2005
|Studio Voice Magazine, June
|[[File:God-Bless-doc-interview-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview
|''[[God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It (documentary)|God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It]]''
|-
|Amy Scott
|2006
|{{MediaLink|Vimeo=https://vimeo.com/16863804}}
|PSA, Iss. 9<ref>https://sites.google.com/site/reformationposttpm/the-pseud-mag-archives/psa-mayo-thompson</ref>
|interview
|-
|-
|2007
|2007
|Fuck Forever: Der Tod des Indie-Rock
|[[File:Psychedelic-Revolution-67-interview-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview
|''Psychedelic Revolution '67''
|Christoph Dreher
|{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmxCiwDlRDo}}
|-
|-
|2022
|2009
|{{RLink|1=Keep}}
|[[File:BBC-Do-It-Yourself-interview-Mayo-Thompson.png|center|frameless|50x50px]]
|interview, oral history
|''Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade''
|Chris Wilson
|{{MediaLink|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKE-hDDgZQ}}
|}
|}


== Filmography ==
== Radio ==
 
=== Technical ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Date
!Title
!Time
!Station
!Program
!Role
!Role
!Notes
!Notes
|-
|-
|1966
|August 30, 1971
|
|7:15pm
|co-director
|KPFT
|unfinished film with [[Frederick Barthelme]] (destroyed)
|''Mayo Thompson: Interesting & rare sounds and yap''
|host
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>
|-
|-
|1975
|August 3, 1972
|{{RLink|Mostly}}
|10:00pm
|co-director
|KPFT
|documentary on [[Robert Rauschenberg]]
|''Free Music Store: Frank Davis and the [[The Rockin' Blue Diamonds|Rockin' Blue Diamonds]]''
|performer
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/fokpft197208ia/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22</ref>
|-
|-
|1986
|February 3, 1973
|The Queen Is Dead
|2:00pm
|producer
|KPFT
|The Smiths music video
|''Houston Concert Houston: More from the [[The Rockin' Blue Diamonds|Rockin' Blue Diamonds]]''
|performer
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/fokpft197302ia/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22</ref>
|-
|-
|1987
|March 2, 1973
|[[The Last of England (film)|The Last of England]]
|2:00pm
|associate producer
|KPFT
|''Community Access Television''
|
|
|}
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n21/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>
 
=== Appearances in documentaries ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
|-
|-
|1979
|March 5, 1973
|South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loydtQRR4eA</ref>
|9:30pm
|-
|KPFT
|1995
|''Community Access Television'' (re-run)
|{{RLink|Tokyo}}
|
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>
|-
|-
|2005
|March 21, 1973
|{{RLink|Bless}}
|10:00pm
|KPFT
|''George Thomas and the Family Folk'' (recorded Sept 1971)
|recording, interviewer
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>
|-
|-
|2007
|August 4, 1973
|Psychedelic Revolution '67<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmxCiwDlRDo</ref>
|11:00am
|WBAI
|''Community Access Television'' (re-run)
|producer, interviewer
|<ref>https://archive.org/details/wbaifolio1478wbairich/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref><ref>https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1310</ref>
|-
|-
|2009
|July 9, 1994
|Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKE-hDDgZQ</ref>
|
|Bayerischer Rundfunk
|[[Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate|''Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate'']]
|field recordings
|<ref>https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?tipp=1&dukey=1369863</ref>
|}
|}
== References ==
== References ==
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[[Category:People|Thompson, Mayo]]
[[Category:People|Thompson, Mayo]]

Latest revision as of 19:51, 2 January 2025

Mayo Thompson
Born 1944
Country

Discography

Solo

Groups

Collaborations

Music production

Main article: Records produced by Mayo Thompson

Exhibitions

Title City Gallery Dates
8th Floor New York City Greene Naftali October 8 – November 7, 2015
? Berlin Galerie Buchholz November 11 – December 23, 2016
Go to the Window Berlin Galerie Buchholz June 28 – August 17, 2019
Oily Works Los Angeles House of Gaga November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021

Exhibition catalogs

Cover Publication Notes
2018
Ground Floor / 8th Floor (2018) with Michael Krebber

Bibliography

Fiction

Cover Title Notes
2018
Art, Mystery novella
2023
After Math: Art, Mystery, Part II novella

Illustrations

Cover Title Publication Notes
1970
Rangoon Rangoon (1970) various short stories by Frederick Barthelme
"Regular Everything"
"Gregory Park"
1971 "Regular Everything II" unpublished
1972
"The Cost of Everything" Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3 (1972) short story by William H. Gass from The Tunnel[1][2]
1972 "A Way of Knowing" The Texas Observer, May 12, 1972 book review[3]
1972 "Music, Women and Guns" The Texas Observer, June 12, 1972 article by Chet Flippo[4]
1972 "The Will to Live" The Texas Observer, July 7, 1972 article by Michael Anderson[5]
1972 "The Santa Claus Bank Robbert" The Texas Observer, October 20, 1972 book review by Bob Cochran[6]
1973 "Woman", "Man" The Texas Observer, April 13, 1973 [7]

Essays/non-fiction

Cover Title Publication Notes
1976
"Autopatripassionata" The Fox 3 (May 1976) Full article with Christine Kozlov
"Review: Convoy" Full article
"Natural Alliances" Full article
"For the Sensitive" Full article
1976
Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 1976)
1977
Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2 (October 1977)
1978
"Baghdad on the Bayous?" Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State (October 1978) Full article on the '60s Houston music scene
1980
"Two men and a bird adrift in a sinking life boat... Last chance for a conversation..." Step by Step (1980) Full article with Ian Penman
1986
"Gorki & Co." Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs (1986) on Maxim Gorky
1987
Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim (1987) with Albert Oehlen
1987
"What" Durch 3/4 (1987)
1987
Polytexte: The Words Meet the Objects (1987) [8]
1987 "Acht Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen" with Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen[9]
1987
"Lasst sie CDs fressen!" Spex September 1987 Full article
1989
"Some Things About Multiples" Georg Herold: Multiplied Objects and Prints (1989) exhibition catalog
1989
Werner Büttner: Das Wichtige Schwarzweiß exhibition catalog[10]
1989
"Was ist eigentlich... Indie-Musik?" Spex March 1989
1989
"Singles" Spex August 1989 Full article short reviews of 60 singles
1990
"Vitrinization" Michael Krebber: Apothekerman (2001) [11]
1991
Liner notes Cowws' Quintett - Seite A Seite A (1991) CD
1991
"Blind Mapping" Texte zur Kunst No. 2 (March 1991) [12]
1992 "'Merlin Carpenter' ['MC']" (November 1992) Full article exhibition handout
1995 "Kauft Reagan Dokoupil?" Spex (October? 1995)
1998 Sarah Seager: Proposal for Installation with Sarong Pants... (1998) exhibition catalog[13][14]
1999
"Sentimental Passage?: On an Audio and Visual Collaboration" InterCommunication No. 30 (Autumn 1999) with Bruce Yonemoto[15]
2003
"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger" Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures (2003)

Filmography

Director

Year Film min Notes
1966 Unknown title unfinished film with Frederick Barthelme
1975
Mostly About Rauschenberg 50 unreleased documentary on artist Robert Rauschenberg

Film music

Year Film Role min Director
1974
Done To "melodic noise" 23 Lawrence Weiner
1976
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors music 24 Art & Language
1977
Struggle in New York music 55 Zoran Popović
1983
Born in Flames song: "Born in Flames" (with The Red Crayola) 80 Lizzie Borden
1987
The Last of England song: "Disco Death" (with Albert Oehlen) 87 Derek Jarman
1996
Japan in Paris in L.A. music (with The Red Krayola) 30 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
2001
Actualité music (with The Red Krayola) 9 Mathias Poledna
2006
Portal Excursion music 9 Michael Smith
2015
Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth" score 20 Michael Smith
2016
Far East of Eden sound design 24 Bruce & Norman Yonemoto

Performer/actor

Year Film Role Director
1976
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors performer with Art & Language 24 Art & Language
1977
Struggle in New York performer with Art & Language 55 Zoran Popović
1980
Ghent music video performer with The Red Crayola
1981 Urgh! A Music War performer with Pere Ubu 121 Derek Burbidge
1991
Die Fröhliche Wallfahrt (The Merry Pilgrimage) actor 16 Cosima von Bonin

Producer

Year Title Role Notes
1986
The Queen Is Dead producer The Smiths music video directed by Derek Jarman
1987
The Last of England associate producer film directed by Derek Jarman

Documentary appearances

Year Title Director
1979
South Bank Show S2E02: "Rough Trade" Geoff Dunlop
1994
The Red Krayola in Tokyo (1995) Takeshi Kimi
1998 Lost in Music: Chicago Connections Christoph Dreher & Ellen El Malki
2000
Circuit 9
2005
God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It Amy Scott
2007
Psychedelic Revolution '67 Christoph Dreher
2009
Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade Chris Wilson

Radio

Date Time Station Program Role Notes
August 30, 1971 7:15pm KPFT Mayo Thompson: Interesting & rare sounds and yap host [16]
August 3, 1972 10:00pm KPFT Free Music Store: Frank Davis and the Rockin' Blue Diamonds performer [17]
February 3, 1973 2:00pm KPFT Houston Concert Houston: More from the Rockin' Blue Diamonds performer [18]
March 2, 1973 2:00pm KPFT Community Access Television [19]
March 5, 1973 9:30pm KPFT Community Access Television (re-run) [20]
March 21, 1973 10:00pm KPFT George Thomas and the Family Folk (recorded Sept 1971) recording, interviewer [21]
August 4, 1973 11:00am WBAI Community Access Television (re-run) producer, interviewer [22][23]
July 9, 1994 Bayerischer Rundfunk Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate field recordings [24]

References

  1. ↑ https://wustl.app.box.com/s/gm6tc0muqwrkyonq2jfu0rroghhzg4c2
  2. ↑ https://thetunnelat25.com/the-tunnel-a-chronology-bibliography/
  3. ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_05_12_issue.pdf#page=12
  4. ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_06_09_issue.pdf#page=11
  5. ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_07_07_issue.pdf#page=21
  6. ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1972_10_20_issue.pdf#page=20
  7. ↑ https://issues.texasobserver.org/pdf/ustxtxb_obs_1973_04_13_issue.pdf#page=15
  8. ↑ https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31569060590
  9. ↑ http://ehfilm.de/ehf-katalog/polytexte.html
  10. ↑ https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31655802787
  11. ↑ From 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/
  12. ↑ https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/2/
  13. ↑ https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21130077270001551
  14. ↑ https://worldcat.org/title/42249767
  15. ↑ https://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic030/contents_e.html
  16. ↑ https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  17. ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197208ia/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
  18. ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197302ia/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22
  19. ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n21/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  20. ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  21. ↑ https://archive.org/details/fokpft197303ia/page/n27/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  22. ↑ https://archive.org/details/wbaifolio1478wbairich/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22
  23. ↑ https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1310
  24. ↑ https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?tipp=1&dukey=1369863
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