About Mekons
The Mekons is a punk rock/post punk band. They are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk bands (rivaled in both categories only by The Fall). Leeds University art students Jon Langford and Tom Greenhalgh formed the Mekons in 1977, taking the band's name from the Mekon, an evil, super-intelligent Venusian featured in the British 1950s-1960s comic Dan Dare (printed in the Eagle). The band first gained widepread popularity with the single "Never Been in a Riot," a satirical take on the Clash's "White Riot.
Biography compiled automatically from publicly available sources.
Recent Setlist
via setlist.fm ↗12 October 2025 · Gold Diggers · Los Angeles
- 1Abernant 1984/85
- 2Hole in the Ground
- 3Last Weeks of the War
- 4Slightly South of the Border
- 5A Fearful Moment (cover)
- 6Millionaire
- 7Last Dance
- 8Dickie, Chalkie & Nobby (Young Men in Peacetime)
- 9Hard to Be Human Again
- 10Ghosts of American Astronauts
- 11Sweet Dreams (cover)
- 12Sanctuary
- 13Neglect
- 14Shanty
- 15Big Zombie
- 16Waltz
- 17Before I Grow Too Old (cover)
- 18Keep On Hoppin’
- 19Fallen Leaves
- 20Wild and Blue (cover)