1970s Leeds student band will reunite for one-off gig

An American based band, which formed in Leeds 40 years ago, is going to reunite for a one-off gig later this year.
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The current line up of the Mekons will be joining the original 1977 band, who were students in the city, for the first time in 30 years at a three day arts festival in rural Suffolk in the grounds of the home of fellow original member Andy Corrigan.

Home to another annual festival it was decided to make this a celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary.

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There will be other music acts, poetry, theatrics and crafts at the July event.

Jon Langford said: “As six teenage art students we formed a band. Who’d have thought we would have still been going all these years later?”

Andy Corrigan said: “The spirit of the Mekons was youth, inexperience and conviction. Mekonville will put together a weekend of entertainment that embodies those qualities across what will be a multi-generational celebration.”

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