The Mob

The Mob

The Mob are a British anarcho-punk group from Yeovil and London, active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The line-up includes Joseph Porter, Graham Fallows, Tim Hutton, Mark Wilson and Curtis Youe. They are associated with anarcho-punk, post-punk and punk, and they release material on All the Madmen Records.

Style and themes

The band is known for a bleak, political approach that fits the early UK anarcho-punk scene. Their songs deal with nuclear war, conflict, wastelands, death, doom, greed, corruption and pollution, and they present a strongly pessimistic view of the world. Their sound is described as distinctive within punk, with more musical variation than many simple one-chord acts of the period.

Context

The Mob share part of their scene with bands such as Crass, Conflict, Chumbawamba and Rudimentary Peni. They also share a connection with the wider off-beat post-punk and anarcho-punk network of the time. The group breaks up in December 1983.