Mick Trouble

Mick Trouble is a British artist whose witty and energetic pop-punk suggests a more upbeat version of the Television Personalities, and he was on the verge of cult stardom when he dropped out of sight in the early '80s. Or at least that's what Jed Smith would like you to believe. Smith, a member of the indie pop acts My Teenage Stride and Jeanines, created the Mick Trouble persona for a project in which he created music for a handful of imaginary artists, and he was pleased enough with Trouble's work that the alter ego took on a life of its own, releasing a lean but tuneful de...