The Mekons

The Mekons has over 78530 followers across LastFM and YouTube Music. Currently we track 2 digital music and social platforms for The Mekons. When AVR-Music Stats last calculated the current growth of The Mekons's social media following, it was roughly 2 followers per day. We collect data on 10,000’s of rappers, singers, musicians, producers, bands & DJs from around the world across multiple genres including edm, rock, hip hop, grime, pop, jazz, folk and many more. Found something missing? You can add data for The Mekons here.

The Mekons's Music Bio

The Mekons are 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. Read more on Last.fm

The Mekons's YouTube Videos

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