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| Okay so it's not everyone in The Mob but there's Mark, and the photo's too good not to use. |
Here is an interview with The Mob, whose original run was from 1977 until 1983. Obviously our twice-per-month event night is named after the Mob song and EP "No Doves Fly Here." As a longtime Mob fan, I'm very excited to present this interview. The Mob, a power trio (heh) fronted by guitarist and vocalist Mark Mob, have recently been playing together again, and are coming to Austin, Texas, on May 31.
I'll let the late Lance Hahn, also of Austin, TX -- who was a writer as well as the frontman and songwriter of the band J-Church (who did a cover of The Mob's "No Doves Fly Here") -- introduce The Mob for me:
“No Doves Fly Here” is one of the most powerful musical statements to come out of what we’re calling anarcho punk and if you didn’t know any better you would have it all wrong. By traditional standards, it’s barely a punk song at all, dead slow in tempo with repetitive, hypnotic bass lines. In some ways, the music is gothic with roots in songs like “Hollow Hills” by Bauhaus. Lyrically, it’s poetic. [...] The Mob were hippie punks. But there was something dark and ominous about a lot of their music. They were death hippies, tripping on the apocalypse. (SOURCE.)
Mark Mob interviewed by Oliver in late March, 2012.
