18. Mekons "Sin City" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09E3xnQ3jME #mekons

The Mekons - "Wild & Blue" https://mekons.bandcamp.com/track/wild-blue #The Mekons #Mekons #alternative #country #JohnAnderson #Bandcamp #music

New baseball-card drawing of Jon Langford and Sally Timms, 1989 Topps style, based on a frame from the Mekons’ “Memphis, Egypt” video

#mekons #jonlangford #sallytimms #baseballcards #cardart

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Jon Langford will go "song-for-song" on fall East Coast tour #2023_06_07 #brooklynvegan #bill_pearis #music_news #tour_dates #bonnie_prince_billy #jon_langford #mekons #will_oldham

>> https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bonnie-prince-billy-jon-langford-will-go-song-for-song-on-fall-east-coast-tour/

Mekons "Deserted" 2019.
#Mekons #Deserted

En lo alto de las colinas de Bradford
junto a la fábrica de Napalm
(flotan sobre nosotros)
fantasmas de astronautas yankis
brillantes en el haz de los faros

https://youtu.be/JtaAWk6YLqQ

#mekons

The Mekons - "Chivalry" https://mekons.bandcamp.com/ #Mekons #rock #music #alternativerock #alternativecountry

#3Mustaphas3 were an interesting band of the late 80s/early 90s - ostensibly white British blokes playing spoof arabic/balkan music... it probably wouldn't be done in the same way today, but very enjoyable music nevertheless. Musical links with Public Image, if course, and Shreikback, with as many guest members as the #Mekons... :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvf52QQwjmo

@oldbritishtelly #Mekons! #PeterSolovka on #accordion! ta ;-)

The Mekons - The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen (Virgin 1979)

Possibly my favourite cover image / album title combo.
(References the theory that an infinite number of monkeys hammering away on typewriters will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare)
The message of the cover (nearly but not quite getting there) entirely appropriate to the contents of the album, where the Mekons serve up a rambunctious, scruffy noise, endearing enough but overshadowed at the time by their friends Gang of Four.
The peak of punk-era Mekons had already passed, with their earlier 7" Where Were You, still the best place to head for a definitive blast of Mekons.

#nowplaying #vinyl #mekons #punk

Gonna mention this one last time:

This week my @WFMU show included a great live set from The Prof.Fuzz 63, followed by a really interesting conversation with Gavin Butt about his book ‘No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk’ (plus lots of related music)!⁣
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You can listen to it anytime thanks to the endless #WFMU archives: https://wfmu.org/playlists/ED/20230111
Thank you!

#radio #OnlineRadio #StreamingRadio #FreeformRadio #leeds #punk #postpunk #GangOf4 #Mekons #Delta5 #SoftCell

#Mekons - The Flame that Killed John Wayne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaIYRveUXK0 #music #chicago

#Mekons - Spinning Round in Flames https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOOcJCBGScM #music

#Mekons - Our Bad Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfgGe4Tu30 #music

Any other #Mekons fans here on Mastodon? Here's a video from the Mekonville festival in England, which I attended in 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUNGyX6KfPE

On this day, November 29th: Sally Timms was born in Leeds.

Today’s soundtrack: Los Mekons and Sally solo.

Today’s screening: “Revenge of the Mekons”

Today’s photo: c. Jean Timms

Today’s quote: “In 1985 she joined the Mekons as a full-time member and has regretted it ever since. Unfortunately, the only way out of the Mekons is in a box, so she's still there." - Bloodshot Records bio

#SallyTimms #Mekons

Listening back to a playlist that I created on #MixCloud seven years ago (and can't even believe it--has it really been seven years?). It's called "What's Cooking" but maybe I should have called it: What's Cooking! It's pretty fun and includes punkier raw tracks by #MalportadoKids #EvansTheDeath #GoodThrob #EraseErrata #Quixotic alongside tracks by #MinorAlps #Girlpool #Grooms #Mekons #DengueFever and more--you can listen here: https://www.mixcloud.com/connectingtothebeat/fairewaves-5-whats-cooking/

Everytime I'm about to leave the other site and then I read a gem like this. Thoughts on the #Mekons from #TheParanoidStyle #ElizabethNelson

(10/11) (I'm embarrassed to say that I know nothing about the Mekons, so I'm including another great song of theirs and putting them on my to-do list.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtaAWk6YLqQ

#thread #stevegoudling #pubrock #mekons

(9/11) Goudling's longest tenure on a band has been his work with the Mekons, which he joined in the mid-1980s and with whom he is still associated with to this day. While this means he wasn't on their earliest songs, like "Where Were You", it does mean that he played on some of their most critically acclaimed work: 1989's The Mekons Rock 'n Roll and 1991's The Curse of the Mekons. Here he is on "Memphis, Egypt."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ6DLwV9CI

#thread #stevegoudling #pubrock #mekons