[A Dancing Master Such As] Mr. Confess youtu.be/_G39qZqcQmM?si… via YouTube

Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, The Icicle Works, D-Train, Holy Toy, APB, Farmer’s Boys, Carmel, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Wham!, Herbie Hancock, The Mekons, and more.
Singles reviewed by Don Watson.
New Musical Express, 23 July 1983.

30 years ago today, The Mekons released “Retreat From Memphis” (@quarterstickrec, Touch and Go Records). Bad dreams and lucky devils. Watch our #MAGNETtelevision episode with Jon Langford: magnetmagazine.com/2020/05/23/mag…

Jack Barron is in Euston for #TheLastPoets , Roger Holland is at the Clarendon for The Mekons, Chris Roberts is at The Marquee for #TrueColours , maryanne hobbs is at the Embassy for #Academy & Neil Perry is loving Madam X at the Marquee

Sounds Apr 27th 1985

Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners' Where It Really Starts’ is out now ! Jon’s most engaging album outside Mekons, and you can still get the coloured vinyl variant (exclusively from Bandcamp)

And great news! Jon and the gang will be performing in the UK in May. Get out to a gig!

Calling all Brummies, get out and see Jon Langford of The Mekons Rock&Roll Brewhouse with his other group on May 14th. Top bloke & top boozer. Limited tickets eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bright-s…

So this is happening, Leeds Beckett Student Union, 10-4 Thursday the 9th of May. Lots of brilliant people chipping in to help tell an untold story. Free, with properly budgeted tea and biscuits for all.

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The review of Stiff Little Fingers, Gang Of Four, Human League, The Fall, The Mekons and The Good Missionaries at the Lyceum in Sounds 31st, March 1979 by Garry Bushell. Pics by Paul Slattery.
Stiff Little Fingers Gang Of Four The Fall in Fives
The Mekons The Human League Garry Bushell

A review of Lous, Subway Sect & The Mekons' gig at Leeds in Sounds 25th, March 1978 by Pete Scott.
Vincent The Mekons Vic

Sounds Clips UB40 @themekons

I'm listening to The Mekons - Wild and Blue on Le Village Pop ! levillagepop.com

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Black artistry is woven into the fabric of country music. It belongs to everyone | Rhiannon Giddens theguardian.com/music/2024/feb…

I remember Langford's work in an exhibit at World Tattoo Gallery in the early '90s. My first wife had a piece in the same show. The Mekons

Jon Langford art exhibit at Tony Fitzpatrick's studio a full-circle moment chicago.suntimes.com/art/2024/02/22…

Bingeing …
their never version of ‘Help Me Make it Through the Night’ - unbelievably I have never heard this before.

Though The Mekons do the best version live. Heartlovingly beautiful.

I’ll never forget the re-staged fight at Mekonville!

The Paranoid Style Seeing them in 1987 at CBGB's was a revelation--one of those shows that changes everything. I wouldn't have wagered then that they'd still be around in 1997, let alone making great music almost 40 years later. I pinch myself every time I see one iteration or another.
The Mekons

Michael Bradley Still a staple at The Mekons gigs… Many years later I got my hands on some of Tom Mekon’s art:

I heard this on the new version of One Day on Netflix.
It perked me up, it did.
Now playing on the MB Record Show. (Where Were You, not I'll Have To Dance...)
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Buzzcocks gig in Manchester reviewed by Mick Middles, plus The Mekons at the Hope and Anchor reviewed by David Hepworth in Sounds 27th, January 1979. Pic by Ray Stevenson. Buzzcocks Mick Middles
The Mekons David Hepworth

Jermaine Jackson, The Mekons.
LPs reviewed by David Corio and Sheryl Garratt.
Plus ads for XTC and The Atrix.
New Musical Express, 17 January 1981.