The Mob (band)

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For the US band, see The Mob (New York band)

Sleeve of "No Doves Fly Here" (1981) by The Mob, sleeve designed by Gee Vaucher and Twisted Image Graphix

The Mob were an anarcho-punk band originally from Yeovil, Somerset, England during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

1 Overview
2 History
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] Overview

The band's initial line up featured:

Marc Mob - vocals, guitar
Curtis - bass
Graham - drums

Marc Mob was the bands center of attention with colourful (red) dreadlocks and an angelic face. On the contrary his voice sounded doomed, his lyrics featuring topics such as nuclear bombs, war, wastelands, death and doom in general.

[edit] 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 Null and 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 famously 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.