Mini Mekons + Friends

I AM NOT A NUMBER I AM A MEKON

Nobody sounds like the Mekons, since forming in Leeds in the late 1970s, they have always operated as a collective, working outside trends and expectations. An early show on 21st October at Le Pub features a stripped down semi-acoustical mini-Mekons featuring Sally Timms, Rico Bell, Susie Honeyman and Newport’s own Jon Langford with a deep dive into the vast back catalog…

Unpretentious, unpredictable and thoroughly uncompromising, Mekons are guided by the belief that the political and personal remain inseparable, and this spirit is embodied in all that they do. Lester Bangs once wrote, “The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock ‘n’ roll,” and although he wrote it tongue in cheek, that doesn’t mean he was wrong. At once witty and profoundly cynical, creatively restless and seemingly incapable of repeating themselves, the Mekons are one of the few…