Mekons Quotes

We formed in 1977 pretty much after The Sex Pistols came along -- I forget what the name of that tour was. Was that the White Riot Tour or something like that? Or the Anarchy Tour. They came with The Clash and The Damned and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, and they played at Leeds Polytechnic. It was just --anyone can be in a band. You don't have to be able to play instruments to be in a band.
Jon Langford 

We were punk rockers and we thought punk rock was really exciting and everything else, and everything that went before it was pretty boring.
Jon Langford 

When I was a kid, the first thing that I really liked was a band called Slade. That kind of glam rock stuff, because I think I was probably about 12 for 13 years old and I probably wanted to be a football hooligan and didn't have the wherewithal to do anything about it.
And Slade and bands like that seemed to be kind of like the sort of football hooligan element that sort of brought that into pop music. They were like a skinhead band who went all glam and wore outrageous outfits and big boots and very strange -- looking back on it. Quite boisterous and noisy -- T. Rex as well, I kind of got into Hawkwind and Black Sabbath and that heavy metal stuff, but only the kind of crudest, most brutal stuff that I liked.
Jon Langford