Stephen William Mallinder (born 1 January 1955) is an English artist and musician who was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, and went on to work as Sassi & Loco, the Ku-Ling Bros., Hey, Rube!, Wrangler, and Creep Show.
Stephen Mallinder wrote a chapter for the publication Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music (ISBN 9781441159373), edited by Benjamin Halligan, Nicola Spelman and Michael Goddard for Continuum International Publishing Group (2013).
Mallinder has published numerous academic papers, and gained his PhD in music and popular culture from Murdoch University in Australia in 2011 with his thesis Movement: Journey of the Beat.
Wrangler also worked with American artist John Grant under the name Creep Show, releasing the album Mr. Dynamite on the Bella Union label in 2018.
The performance took place at the newly built John Pemberton Lecture Theatres in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield, which was constructed in the approximate location of Cabaret Voltaire's original Western Works studio.
[6] He has worked with actress Jane Horrocks, writing music and performing, for the theatre production Cotton Panic, which debuted at Manchester International Festival in 2017.
[7] As part of Cabaret Voltaire, Mallinder has had video work exhibited at MoMA in New York,[8][9] and with Wrangler in the Turbines (Tate Modern, 2010).