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Mary Byker

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Mary Byker, born Ian Garfield Hoxley and also known by the alias Mary Mary, is an English singer, record producer and DJ best known as the lead singer of Gaye Bykers on Acid, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pigface and Apollo 440.

Byker formed the grebo band Gaye Bykers on Acid with bassist Robber Byker in 1985, later joined by guitarist Tony Byker and drummer Kevin Hyde. After releasing early singles on In-Tape, the group signed a 10-album deal with Virgin Records and released the albums Drill Your Own Hole (1987) and Stewed To The Gills... (1989), but poor sales led to their being dropped by the label. In 1990 the band recorded the thrash album Sakredanus under the guise of a fictitious East German punk act, Rektüm, before releasing two further albums, Cancer Planet Mission and Pernicious Nonsense, on their own Naked Brain label. The group dissolved later that year.

Following the split, Byker joined the Chicago-based industrial supergroup Pigface at the urging of Martin Atkins, touring the US and Europe and providing vocals on the albums Fook, Washingmachine Mouth and 6. In 1992 he formed Hyperhead with Atkins, Karl Leiker, William Tucker and Paul Dalloway, releasing the album Metaphasia and building a reputation as a live act before disbanding without a follow-up record. In 1997 Byker joined Apollo 440, contributing vocals to the UK top-10 hit "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub" and the albums Electro Glide in Blue and Gettin' High on Your Own Supply, the latter yielding further hit singles including the theme to Lost in Space and "Stop the Rock". With bandmates Trevor Gray and Howard Gray, he also wrote and produced Liverpool F.C.'s 1996 FA Cup Final single "Pass & Move (It's the Liverpool Groove)" under the name Boot Room Boyz, and in 2002 he toured with Maximum Roach alongside former Apollo 440 collaborator Noko.

Since 2010, Byker has served as co-vocalist of the reformed Pop Will Eat Itself alongside Graham Crabb, appearing on the albums New Noise Designed by a Sadist and Anti-Nasty League. In 2018 he reunited with Noko to form Am I Dead Yet?, whose crowdfunded self-titled debut album was released in 2019. Byker married Sarah Corina, bassist of The Bomb Party, in 1987; following their divorce he married Ana Vance, and the couple relocated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2007, where he opened the East Asian-themed restaurant Mekong. Alongside his band work, he continues to perform as a DJ and has occasionally scored music for film and television.


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