Ted Mason, former lead guitarist, producer, co-songwriter and manager of the band Modern English has a new band, THE BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS! During the years with Modern English, Mr. Mason parlayed contacts, friendships, and his considerable talent as a producer/musician into stints with some of the late Eighties' more notable acts, including: "Spandau Ballet," "Art of Noise," "Hugh Cornwell," "Jesus and the Mary Chain," "MC Lyte," "Africa Bambatta," and "Kid Creole." But it was with "MODERN ENGLISH" that Mr. Mason spent most of this decade, not only as a performer, but also managing and producing the act. Following the release and national tour of "Everything's Mad" in early 1996-97, Mason departed to join older brother Montimer in New York. The Mason's formed THE BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS, along with drummer Milan Mesaric

Mr. Mason's path eventually led him to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied classical guitar. To become master instrumentalists however, would take ever so much more work. Ted notes, "We really wanted to play, and play all genres of music very well. Anybody could be a punk. As a PUNK you would progress to being dead, dull and gone in a day. But I wanted to become an educated punk. I wanted to frighten the masters and make lions out of lemmings. I wanted to Make Art; A-rticulate R-evolutionize T-hought. Beautiful melodies and all that.

Another eccentric integral member and popster in THE BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS is singer, master drummer (and rhythm guitarist) Milan Mesarich. Milan hails from Boston and studied music at the Prestigious Berklee School of Music. Tired of the traditional boundaries imposed on the curriculum, Milan rebelled, left Berklee, and set upon the road. After playing many stints with artists such as Peter Wolfe and former members of Icicle Works, and the Spin Doctors, Milan moved to New York City aspiring to find a band with similar musical tastes and the desire to make music first, be a star later! After hanging out at the local English pub, the Parlour, and two too many pints, Ted and Milan first broached the subject of playing together. "When we heard this bloke laying down the salsa grooves on the drums and then go on endlessly about how great Ringo played on 'She Loves You' during the Beatles' concerts, we knew he was OUR drummer," Monty recalls. Who says a couple of pints can't solve your problems! Milan states: "Hey, Mr. Boom-Boom Skinny Guitarist: 'Summer Wind' on five! You're done! Next!?

Because of the eclectic music and counter multi-culture of THE BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS, Ted took a less corporate approach to the production of the band. "We did not want to engage in the racial profiling that the conglomerates proliferate and to that matter what alternative bands succumb to; we opted out of the class based manipulations that is also a by-product of the entertainment industry. We did not want our music compromised or cheapened to contemporary ethos of today's music and popular culture.

THE BLUE MOCKINGBIRDS want to leave something positive Make Art; A-rticulate R-evolutionize T-hought. As Ted says, "I don't believe in feel good motivational artists, you can make if you try mentality crap, and for that matter I don't believe in blind rage. I know attitude might be important in this business, but an articulate vision, does not invent itself with bad attitude. With out a new language, shaped and molded with thought and invention, you will just speak the same old obscenity of the old order. Nothing new there. Besides, why become a punk if you can't leave something for everyone to argue over??"