{"id":100748,"date":"2025-05-14T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100748\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:19:25","slug":"just-like-a-1970s-summer-punk-in-the-sun-and-the-mekons-are-touring-in-brum-tonight-with-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/100748\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like a 1970s summer &#8211; punk in the sun and the Mekons are touring in Brum tonight with a new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formed as an art collective in 1976<a href=\"https:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=1299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0the Mekons\u00a0<\/a>are one of the country&#8217;s longest-running and prolific punk bands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, they have never been afraid to change their style as times change. Their back catalogue includes aspects of country music, folk music, alternative rock and occasional experiments with dub.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fa0d000c-b936-4c6a-bfc0-83cda84a649d.jpg\"   alt=\"The Mekons\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>The Mekons<\/p>\n<p>And they have a brand new album to go with their latest tour &#8211; Horror, their first release on Fire Records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Fire Records spokesman said: &#8220;Horror\u2019 provides a horribly prescient reflection of the world in its current miasma and how we got here.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Horror\u2019looks at history and the legacies of British imperialism with mashed up lyrics set against a typically eclectic sound that amalgamates everything from dub, country, noise, rock and roll, electronica, punk, music hall, polka and you can even take your partner for a nice waltz on \u2018Sad And Sad And Sad\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roots of their global sound reflect their nomadic journey through time and space from Leeds to California in the West and Siberia in the East and is woven into the fabric and intricacies of their song creation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skiddle.com\/whats-on\/Birmingham\/Hare-And-Hounds-Kings-Heath\/Mekons\/40381144\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets are available on Skiddle\u00a0<\/a>and on the door at the Hare and Hounds tonight, priced \u00a322.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formed as an art collective in 1976\u00a0the Mekons\u00a0are one of the country&#8217;s longest-running and prolific punk bands.\u00a0 However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,20875,748,393,77,4884,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-100748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-entertainment","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114506154858015643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}