- The Mob (band)
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The Mob (New York band) "Infobox musical artist |
Name = The Mob
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Origin =U.K.
Genre =Anarcho-punk ,Death rock
Years_active = 1979-1983
Label =Crass Records All the Madmen
Associated_acts =Zounds Blyth Power
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Current_members = Marc Mob Curtis Graham Josef Porta
Past_members =The Mob were an
anarcho-punk band originally fromYeovil ,Somerset ,England during the late 1970s and early 1980s.Overview
The band's initial line up featured:
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Marc Mob - vocals, guitar
* Curtis - bass
* Graham - drumsMarc Mob was the centre of attention with red
dreadlocks . His lyrics featured topics such as nuclear bombs, war, wastelands, death and doom in general.History
In 1981 Marc and Curtis relocated to Islington, London where they lived in a house run by the Black Sheep housing co-op.
Josef Porta (also of British anarcho-punk bands Zounds and [http://www.null-and-void.com Null & Void] ) took over on drums.Some of their allies in the anarcho-punk scene ran the Community-Squats "Peace Centre" (today the residence of
Amnesty International GB, where The Mob once played a benefit-show in the basement) and the "Ambulance Station" in South London.Josef Porta quit the band by saying that he was sick of singing about children being slaughtered. He subsequently formed the group
Blyth Power .The band broke up in December 1983.
Discography
Albums
* "i-Ching" cassette (1980
All the Madmen )
* "Let the Tribe Increase" LP (1982All the Madmen )ingles/EPs
* "Crying Again"/"Youth" 7" (1979
All the Madmen )
* "Witchhunt"/Shuffling Souls" 7" (1980All the Madmen )
* "No Doves Fly Here" 7" (1981Crass Records )
* "Crying Again" 12" EP (1983All the Madmen )
* "Mirror Breaks"/"Stay" 7" (1983All the Madmen ).Live
* "Live at the Zig Zag Squat 18/12/82" split cassette/CD with Amebix and Flux of Pink Indians (1982)
* "Live at the LMC" split LP with The Apostles (1983Cause for Concern )
* "No, No, No, Don't Drop Your Bombs on Us, They Hurt" split cassette with The Faction and D&V (1983)Reissue
* "Let the Tribe Increase" LP/CD (1997 Broken Rekids)
Compilation tracks
* "No Doves Fly Here" on "A-Sides" compilation CD (1994
Crass Records )External links
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mob,+The+(3) Discography of The Mob] at
Discogs
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