Kev Hopper (born 1961) is an English
bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
ist.
Life and career
Hopper is probably best known as the bass guitarist with
Stump
Stump may refer to:
* Stump (band), a band from Cork, Ireland and London, England
* Stump (cricket), one of three small wooden posts which the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
*Stump (dog): Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (born 1998), 200 ...
, an Anglo/Irish indie/experimental/rock group formed in London in 1983. Stump released two albums, the self released mini album ''
Quirk Out'' in 1986 and their only full-length release ''A Fierce Pancake'' in 1988. Since the late 1980s, his mainly instrumental output has been diverse and best described as a hybrid style of experimental and melodic pop with his distinctive bass playing often to the fore. He has also created electronica with the group Ticklish and minimal pulse music in a Rock band format with Prescott
[Slowfoot Records] (formed in 2012) featuring
Scritti Politti
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Beginning as a punk-inspired collect ...
keyboardist
Rhodri Marsden
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Journalism
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, drummer
Frank Byng, adding
Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu is an American rock group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. The band had a variety of long-term and recurring band members, with singer David Thomas being the only member staying throughout the band's lifetime. They released their d ...
guitarist,
Keith Moliné
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in 2016.
Hopper is also a visual artist (painter).
Discography
Solo albums
* ''Stolen Jewels'' (1990), Ghetto Records
* ''The Stinking Rose'' (1993), retrospective Bandcamp digital release
* ''Spoombung'' (1998), Thoofa
* ''Whispering Foils'' (2000) Drag City/Duophonic
* ''Saurus'' (2002), Drag City/ Afterhours
apan
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* ''I Saw Spoombung's Daughter Consumed by Kirby Dots'' (2005), Afterhours (Japan)
* ''The Germjoin'' (2012), Afterhours (Japan)
* ''Tonka Beano'' (2013), Linear Obsessional Records
* ''Kevlington'' (2015), Bandcamp digital release
* ''Corbyn Sceptic Club'' (2018), Linear Obsessional Records
* ''Moving and Handling'' (2020), Bandcamp digital release
* ''Peppa Vesticle'' (2021), Bandcamp digital release
* ''Sans Noodles'' (2022), Dimple Discs
with Stump
* ''Mud on a Colon'' EP (1986),
Ron Johnson
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(
UK Indie #39)
* ''Quirk Out'' (1986), Stuff (UK Indie #2)
* ''The Peel Sessions'' EP (1987),
Strange Fruit
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(UK Indie #13)
* ''
A Fierce Pancake
''A Fierce Pancake'' is the second and final album and only full-length studio album by Anglo-Irish experimental rock band Stump, released 7 March 1988 on Ensign Records. After the band had enjoyed some underground success in the 1980s, includin ...
'' (1988),
Ensign
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* ''Chaos'' (1988),
Ensign
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*''Charlton Heston'', (1988) Ensign (
UK #72)
* ''Buffalo'' (1988), Ensign
* ''The Complete Anthology'' box set (2008),
Sanctuary
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* ''Does the Fish Have Chips?'' (2014)
Cherry Red Records
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with Ticklish
* ''Ticklish'' (2000), GROB
* ''Rubato'' (joint E.P. with Fizzarum, 2005) Textile Records
* ''Here Are Your New Instructions'' (2005) Textile Records
with Prescott
* ''One Did'' (2014) Slowfoot Records
* ''Thing or Two'' (2017) Bandcamp digital release. Thoofa Records
References
External links
* https://www.discogs.com/artist/99763-Kev-Hopper
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1961 births
Living people
English rock bass guitarists
English male guitarists
Male bass guitarists
Stump (band) members